…you see, my lawn’s just not as green as it used to be. And it’s taking me forever to mow the lawn, can you help with that? Here’s my place. You see the little marker, well that’s a bit deceiving. It’s a bit larger than that. I have to take care of everything extending out… Continue Reading Hi, can you come give me a quote on regular lawncare?
So, I received the wrong item from Amazon.com today. I tried to use Amazon’s automated web-based system to ask for an exchange, refund or return. So I spent about 15 seconds getting the information entered into the automated system, but then I found that I would have to contact Amazon directly. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″… Continue Reading Amazon.com Chat Support was as Slow as Molasses
Heres’ a video of my presentations on Project Greenfield and Plagiarism is Good (with Tom Caswell) from OpenEd 2010 in Barcelona, Spain on November 2-3, 2010. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/8B49iS9WOAA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&rel=0/] Cite as: Muramatsu, B.… Continue Reading Video of Presentations at OpenEd 2010
Oops, I didn’t realize that the OpenCourseWare Consortium published a video from my talk on Project Greenfield from May 2010. (This is the same conference where I also talked about SpokenMedia.) Extending the OCW Experience in the OCW Sandbox from OpenCourseWare Consortium on Vimeo. Cite as: Muramatsu, B., Kumar, M.S., Merriman, J. & Wilkins, P.… Continue Reading Project Greenfield at OCWC Global 2010
While writing my post on My .1 seconds of Internet fame!, I came across the Jessica Moreno website that provides a link to the original image that caused the crazy spike in the bandwidth on my site. Apparently she liked the image enough to post the link, but not enough to pay attention to the… Continue Reading Jessica Moreno is unclear of the concept of licenses
Well, really it was a single post Movies when and how *I* want them!. Since I published it in 2009, it’s received over 5,100 visits (as reported by StatPress). [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] You can… Continue Reading My .1 seconds of Internet fame!
As part of my “WTF is my website so slow” explorations. I found that spiders (web crawlers) seemed to be hammering my site. Taking a look at the logs, I saw a lot of spiders hammering my site. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=””… Continue Reading Slowing down the spiders…
I had been wondering why my website was slow for a few months and then I started getting emails warning me of excessive bandwidth. Really? I don’t think my website should be that popular… I wondered what was going on… Here’s what the bandwidth transferred from my site for March 2010 through March 2011. You’ll… Continue Reading Why is my website slow?
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Hrm, I thought I wrote about this topic already, after scouring my site I couldn’t find anything about it…so jumping right in. A while back I wrote about Trip Reports and Meeting (Conference) Followup. What I thought I mentioned then is that one of the big reasons I attend conferences is more for the conversations… Continue Reading It’s the conversations!