Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Posts about technology, including tips, tricks, and hacks.
The guy behind the web comic XKCD did a survey of how people view color on their monitor, asking them to label a wide assortment of color swatches. Read the results of the survey. I don’t know that there’s anything ground shaking here, but it’s interesting to learn more about how people perceive — and … Read more
The ITS Coffee Break is back with the first (and hopefully not last) episode of the Spring Semester. Courtney Bentley and I talk Project nextWeb, Lafayette’s WordPress migration, Twitter, Facebook’s big privacy changes and much more.
I set my GPG key to expire annually, which was all well and good until it actually expired and I found myself needing to renew it. I was able to renew the primary key by expiring it, but unfortunately this only expired the primary key; the subkey remained expired, which in turn meant my key … Read more
I’ve been having massive stability issues with Firefox 3.5/3.6 for the Mac for the last week or so, as Firefox got stuck in this crash-reboot-crash loop that I couldn’t break. My immediate fix was to launch Firefox in safe mode by holding down the [Option] key while clicking on the application icon (read the Firefox … Read more
We did it … three podcasts in just under a month! Yep folks, yet another edition of the ITS Coffee Break is online. In ITS Coffee Break #62 we talk about WordCamp, CLAMP Moodle brown bags, a Mars Rover blog, Twitter lists, how to assess your Twitter social network and a weird little autofocusing bug … Read more
Jason Alley’s got a cool little Sites blog called The Alley Way, but alas, he hasn’t updated it recently. So this is just a quick tag post to encourage him to write something nifty, like this post from way back in September: Dude, where’s my iMovie ‘09 project?
The ITS Coffee Break’s resurgence continues with Episode #61, just released today. In this episode, we discuss Chris Phillips essay “I Hear America Reading: Using Digital Audio to Teach American Poetry”, which appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Teaching American Literature and announce Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, which will be held at Lafayette College. We … Read more
This is a rather ho-hum article about technology on college campuses, and students arriving on campus with iPods, Kindles, etc. What I did find interesting (and by “interesting” I mean “utterly crazy”) is this photo of a student on a treadmill working on an iMac. Now I get multitasking — heck, I watch vidcasts and … Read more
After a six month hiatus, the ITS Coffee Break is back! In Episode #60 Courtney Bentley and I discuss Lafayette’s WordPress MU project, take a look at Bates College’s new WordPress-powered home page, discuss the Google Wave web application, debate the merits of Amazon’s Kindle vs. Barnes & Nobles’ new Nook ebook reader, and talk about an upcoming copyright … Read more