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Internet Explorer 6 to be ghetto-virtualized into oblivion
Microsoft will allow bass-ackwards XP-only applications, such as IE 6-only web apps, to run in emulation via Virtual PC as part of the regular Windows 7 desktop. That feature will apparently be standard in enterprise-class versions of Windows. I appreciate…
Criticism, journalism: things are tough/awesome all over
I enjoyed last night's Junto discussion on art criticism in Philadelphia but I'm puzzling over some fundamentals. The larger context went mostly unspoken. All journalism everywhere is in deep sheep dip right now because print newspapers are dying. At the…
The Art Criticism Junto
Thursday April 23, 2009 The discussion which will begin at 7pm. Food and drink at 6pm. Please join us next Thursday, April 23rd at 6pm for the Junto. This month we will be discussing the past, present, and future…
Sometimes, blogging is timeless
Sometimes Google doesn't exactly rush pell-mell to index your blog. And when Google does index your blog, sometimes they don't do it in a way that really helps your readers. To my mind, blogs have two kinds of readers: 1.…
Why People [I Know] Photograph
I talked with Isaac Schell after his recent opening about the motivation and inspiration for his pictures. At first he frame photography as a compulsion. A way to get an image out of his head. He later conceded that Garry…
IDES 322: Mapping
From the Google Lat Long Blog: As the news began to spread of the Red River's record-setting crest level, the first order of the day was to help get the word out to as many as possible. This was…
My Play History
For several years, I taught a Game Design course in the Multimedia department at UArts. To give this course more intellectual heft, I would say that play is essential to humans. I went so far as to say that…
svncampfire: keeping up with the chownses
We have a private chat room on campfire, an awesome group chat solution from 37signals. We also have lots of code— HTML, PHP, Ruby, C, whatever— checked into subversion repositories. Back in the day, all of our code lived in…
Art Happens Today
6207 Market Photographs by Isaac Schell Stockbridge Fine Art Print 319 N. 11th 4th floor Friday April 3rd, 5-10pm Let's talk about art. Isaac Schell is a Drexel photo graduate, and also my housemate. He shoots with a 4x5" portable…
IDES 322: All Hands On Deck
Today we will revising and polishing each group's project objective copy and putting a finish on the Farm Philly branding material. You will decide on a domain for the project blog, purchase it, and with our help set up hosting.…
Introducing pkMediaPlugin (no foolin')
Hey pkMediaPlugin! I see you hiding back there behind your big brother, pkContextCMSPlugin. Come on out and show yourself. Let's choose an image to use as a logo. We don't have any media in here yet, so let's add…