Looking over the schedule, I just realized that because of the additional post-session class, my flight back to Portland leaves on Thursday. I left a message on my machine that I would be back to work on Thursday. Someone from work want to drop me line about how to update my message remotely??? … Michael […]

A quick lunch, some networking and then off to more sessions. … Bryan Hantman – University of Maryland Bryan starts with a fairly intensive, textbook explination of what web standards are. Desperatly trying to stay awake… “And then in 1999 we thought about the idea of future compatability”, Zzzzzzzzzz… “So then Eric Myer came along”, […]

Rick Ellis -Washington State Much better! “Our job is to support mountain climbers”, he begins, a huge slide of Mt. Rainier behind him. Mt climbers? Yes, in a way I can see his metaphor. Getting resources on the web can often seem like a daunting task for our faculty and staff. We are the Sherpas […]

Mars Hill College This is not what I expected at all. Currently we are looking developing a flash video interface for our website. I was hoping for tips on compression, captioning, etc. Instead, he has been covering the basics of shooting videos, “Here are the cameras I like. You should use a tripod. And that […]

Keynote just started. The presenter, Todd Markelz looks like a 15-year-old stuffed into a suit – though I doubt that I would look good up there right now. Need more coffee… The keynote got got much better as it went on. Todd appeared to get more comfortable and sited some great comparisons between google and […]

Out my window So far, the conference has been great. The day started with a quick registration, some food and then the pre-work shops. I was signed up for the “Paper Prototyping” hosted by the Penn State team (the other PSU). They were informative and had great advice to offer. After a quick run thought […]

My flight landed around 8pm and they didn’t want to give me my luggage back. Because the plane was so small, they had forced me to valet check-in a bag and I had lost the ticket. When I finally got it back the airport was dead – not a soul around. After check in at […]

On the ground at O’hare, the rushed feeling took over again as I set out to find my connecting flight. This is one large airport and although it may not sound far on paper, going from gate K13 to G9 is at least a good half mile. And the unfamiliarity of the airport becomes even […]

I like to fly – although I don’t do it often and the cabin pressure seems to screw with my head. Also, there is that dreaded feeling of rush, even when you arrive hours early for your flight. Sam dropped my off early and I made such quick time past security, that I was soon […]

The Smart Card Manager is an open-source alternative to Microsoft’s InfoCard. I worked for two quarters with a group developing the second stage of the project. This included the creation of an API, an agent and a GUI interface. Source code for our part of teh project can be downloaded from the trak site. Also, […]