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Vacation and school
Last week I took a week off from work to mentally prepare myself for going back to school, which started this week. I didn’t do anything spectacular for vacation, other than staying home and doing a bit of cleaning. The heat wave we’ve been having kept me inside most days, where I would plop down…
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Long Live the Classic Editor
When logging into a WordPress blog, the user is first shown the Dashboard, which usually includes links to posts about WordPress. This morning, most of those posts had to do with the announcement that support for the Classic Editor plugin has been extended to 2022, and possibly beyond. In 2018, when WordPress came out with…
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Revisiting the Dell Inspiron 13 7375 2-in-1
It’s been almost two years since I wrote about installing Linux Mint on a Dell Inspiron 13 7375 2-in-1, and in that time I’ve used it pretty regularly. After two years of using the laptop on a nearly daily basis, it seemed like a good idea to write about my experiences with it. I’m not…
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Good riddance, gachas
Last year, when I started getting back into Second Life, I came across these things called gachas. They were a new concept to me, since I didn’t remember them from my previous experiences in SL. Some people liken gachas to gumball machines, where you put in your money and you get a gumball, but you…
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People
This was the fourth audiobook I’ve listened to since picking up the habit a few months ago, and it wasn’t one from my to-be-read pile, so I didn’t have any expectations for it. As a regular book, it is probably very interesting, but as an audiobook, it leaves a lot to be desired. I have…
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She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Like many people who enjoy reading, I have lots of books in my to-be-read pile. It seems like it’s rare that I get a chance sit down and enjoy a good read. On the other hand, the time I spend going to and from work is sort of dead. A few months ago, it dawned…
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The Sandman
Since I started listening to audiobooks a few months ago, I’ve come to the conclusion that some books are easier to adapt to audiobooks than others. The Sandman is a well-known comic book series by Neil Gaiman, and though I never read it, I was aware of it. Reading the Audible was adapting it to…
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The Only Pirate at the Party
A few years ago, I got some money for my birthday and for some reason I bought a violin and an amplifier from Amazon. I never really did anything with it, but I started looking at YouTube for violin stuff and kept reading references to Lindsey Stirling. “She must be a famous violinist or something,”…
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How To Get Yourself A Second Life: A Guide For Newbies
A few months ago, as I began taking a closer look at Second Life, I started looking for journal articles and books about it. One of the first things I noticed was that there was a clear heyday of Second Life literature from around 2008 to 2012. While there have been articles and books published…
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Read all about it
A few days ago, for some reason, I was looking for news on Czechia. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but had a vague idea that I might collect a list of English language news sources in non-English speaking countries. Turns out it’s already been done. I found a site called NewsNow. It’s basically…
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Human performance technology
When I started taking graduate classes in Instructional Systems Technology (IST) last fall, we were told pretty early on, that IST is a subset of Human Performance Technology (HPT), but we didn’t spend much time delving into HPT until this week, where we were offered several readings on the subject. One of the readings, “Human…
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Trend and issues in Instructional technology
How apropos. In last week’s post, I commented on how the chapter I was reading could do with an update to reflect educational changes as a result of the pandemic, and this week there’s a journal article that covers exactly that. Last summer, Curt Bonk wrote an article titled “Pandemic ponderings, 30 years to today:…
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