Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Domain name by any other name

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

There was a time when the web wasn’t the only game in town.  There were just as many Gopher, FTP and News (NNTP) sites as there were web sites.  To distinguish web pages from other technologies, the familiar “www” was added … Continue reading →

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Use Common Sense

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

The Christian Science Monitor has an article about teachers striking back against student online activities.  Cyberbullying has received a lot of attention recently, but most of it has focused on student-student incidents.  Not only are students attacking each other, many … Continue reading →

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Lessig No Eight

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Lawrence Lessig has decided not to run for congress.  Check his web site for a video explanation. http://lessig08.org

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Lessig’s Free Culture

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Recently I added Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture PDF to my iPod.  I’ll talk about the iPod as an e-reader some other time.  Today I would like to mention some of the high points in Lessig’s book with was released under a … Continue reading →

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Lunar Eclipse

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

It was cold, but we managed to get a nice set of pictures of the lunar eclipse.  Click the picture to see the larger version on Flickr.

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