Humans are good at taking things apart. We’re just not great at putting them back together. I know there’s a quote or a scene in a movie that says that better.
As I see posts about such things as dismantling journalism into it’s component parts, and think about how we’ve broken out CDs into individual songs we can download, [there must be a dozen or more instances of this] I wonder if we’ll lose site of the composition — like losing the feel of an album from start to finish, and more.
Are we destined for things all fractured into pieces? Or will those pieces turn into building blocks for future creativity (playlists are an example of that.)
This post is to get down a deep thought (not as deep as I can explore right now) and get back to work.
To ponder another time.
Posted May 6th, 2011 in Personal.
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Posted April 7th, 2011 in Personal.
I’ve been asked what I want for Christmas. As I am in complete denial that it’s already December I’ll take a different approach. Here are my goals of consumption for the coming year.
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Posted December 11th, 2010 in Personal.
On October 5 I gave birth to my son Max via an emergency c-section. I had checked into the hospital the night before to prepare to have labor induced as we were a week past the due date. After a long sleepless night hooked up to monitors and two rounds of the drugs to induce I began to have contractions. A nurse came into the room quickly to check the monitors. Another nurse arrived, then another, then two more, then four more, until there were 8 nurses and then the doctor. Within seconds I was wheeled down the hall and within 20 minutes Max was uttering his first cry. The umbilical cord had wrapped around Max’s shoulder and his heartbeat had dropped by half with each contraction. Their speedy action saved him from harm.
I panicked at first, but the second I hear his first cry I was beaming. Max was, and is perfect.
After Max was born I was sent to the recovery area where I had a complication of hemorrhaging. It took a couple hours to get it under control, but I did not need a transfusion. With the inducing of labor and the complications I had a tough recovery including excessive swelling. That complicated breast feeding as the swelling was choking my milk supply and prevented Max from being able to latch on. Later when the swelling subsided we found my shape was not conducive to Max latching on so I continue to work with a lactation consultant. In the meantime I am using a breast pump 6-8 times a day to produces as much milk for Max (we then supplement with formula.) I’m fighting to keep up with his rate of growth.
The first week Max lost too much weight, so we had to supplement with formula. The second week he caught up and we actually overfed him, so we had to adjust, and by the third and fourth week we found the right pace. He’s thriving. By his first month check-up he was a couple inches longer and a couple pounds heavier.
Max is perfect. Every issue we’ve had has to do with me, as it should be – I’ll take the complications any day over him. Once the swelling subsided I was feeling ready to do more, but found that the incision from the c-section was not healing properly. Instead of healing, a pocket of fluid had developed, but we caught it before there was an infection. I’ve had to work with the wound care center at the hospital and we’ve tried a few treatments. The wound is healing slowly and should heal in another 4-6 weeks. I had to wear a “wound vac” that applied negative pressure to the wound to keep it from forming more liquid, and that worked well but impacted the surrounding skin (irritation due to all the tape.) We had to switch to something that would use less tape, so the doctor altered the wound so I can take care of it myself.
I’m not in pain, and just slowed down a bit. I’ve been staying with my parents, which have been a tremendous help. Thankfully that is offset by the pure joy they experience having Max around. Max is a dream - - he’s perfect, lovely, and a joy to be around – all the bad goes away just by looking at him.
Posted November 12th, 2010 in Personal.
Posted December 21st, 2009 in Personal.
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Posted December 7th, 2009 in Personal.
Just before heading out for vacation I was presented with what seemed to be a simple request: post a shuttle schedule on a website. In an effort to share what I do, and to get this written out so I can switch to vacation mode, I offer a view of how I work through where something should go online.
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Posted November 21st, 2009 in Work/Professional Development. 1 Comment »
Anthony Dunn, WCMS Coordinator, CSU, Chico. “Maybe the Purpose of Our Redesign is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others.” Disclaimer posted at the start. For entertainment purposes only.
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Posted October 6th, 2009 in Personal.
Michael Fienen, Web Marketing Manager, Pittsburg State University. “Better Living through Minions: Guide to Student Workers.” MMP9 #hew09mmp9
Get it all here: http://doteduguru.com/heweb09mmp9
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Posted October 6th, 2009 in Personal.
Joel Herron, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. “Interactive Maps: making them work for you.”
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Posted October 6th, 2009 in Personal.
Jess Rodgers, University of Waterloo. “Web Project Management: Strategies for chaotic web projects in Higher ed”
A project is… “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result” PMBOK
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Posted October 5th, 2009 in Personal.
Justin Klingman, Manager of Web Design and Content Management, Beacon Technologies. “Flash and Data Integration.”
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Posted September 29th, 2009 in Cascade, Personal.
Brent Arrington, Services Developer, Hannon Hill. “Site Migration.”
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Posted September 29th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
A question came up about how we link CSS in our templates. An example posted here.
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Posted September 29th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
Penny Harding, Services Developer, Hannon Hill. “Best Practices with Sites.”
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Posted September 29th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
Ross Williams, Services Trainer, Hannon Hill. “New: Velocity Template Language Enhancements.” Described new features added to Velocity in Cascade Service v. 6.2+
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Posted September 28th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
Jon Whitener, Web Communications Specialist, University of Detroit Mercy. “Database Publishing.”
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Posted September 28th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
“Smart Cascade Server Implementations” by Justin Klingman, Manager of Web Design & Content Management, Beacon Technologies. Presented in the Executive Track.
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Posted September 28th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
David Klanac delivered Bradley Wagner’s talk on the “Cascade Server Roadmap” for the coming year.
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Posted September 28th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
“Thankfully the conference was not last week.”
—David Cummings
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Posted September 28th, 2009 in Cascade, Web, Work/Professional Development.
Posted July 4th, 2009 in Personal.
The Twitter backchannel
I copied the backchannel from yesterday’s #smsummit for future reference
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Posted June 10th, 2009 in Notes, Web.
Witnessed the arrival of Emily Anderson, who is re-creating the cross-country drive by Vassar alumna Alice Ramsey — the first women to drive cross country, back in 1909.
http://aliceramsey.org/
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Posted June 9th, 2009 in Personal.
We spent the week relaxing, took a boat ride on the Hudson, stopped by Orange County Choppers to get some pics for Steve, and went on a bunch of roller-coasters at Six Flags (with no lines!)
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Posted June 9th, 2009 in Personal.
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