You cannot quite recognise the people on Troon beach. I think I might need to set up a test blog if I do not want to choke this one up with experements.

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Over the last few week I’ve been blogging happily from TextMate and feeling quite pleased with myself. I even wrote a crude command from the blogging bundle to convert a set of selected words to technorati tags. Unfortunately I didn’t check it out properly and the links produced were broken. So this morning I fixed it and used textMate to retrive the posts fix the links and repost them, not noticing until I had finished that that set the date to todays. I’ve reordered them now, but it looks like I went mad blogging today.
This is my code, it is important to note I know nothing at all about shell scripting so just used google to figue out what to use:

echo  "<p class="ttags">"

tt="<a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/thetag/" rel="tag" target="_blank">thetag</a>"

str=$TM_SELECTED_TEXT

for word in $str; do echo ${tt//thetag/$word}; done

echo "</p>"

Hopefully the next paragraph will show it works:

TextMate Blogging Mistakes

This looks like it is going to be great:
K12 Online 2006 Conference?

the first annual K12 Online 2006 convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year?s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 with the theme Unleashing the Potential.

Organised by Darren Kuropatwa, Sheryl Nusbaum-Beach, Will Richardson. Just misses our October week holiday, which is probably a good thing from my family’s point of view.

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listening to the latest Booruch Education Podcast Reflections #24 I heard David announce the PodcastDirectory.org.uk site. I was involved in creating the site over the summer holiday. It is David’s selection and review of various podcasts that should be useful in education. The podcasts have been reviewed on Booruch. I was delighted to work with David as I really enjoy his podcast, his reviews are very teacher friendly and his angle on these and the web 2.0 technology he discusses is always interesting. He has also got a nice calm, scottish voice.I had a great deal of fun working on the site, please to be able to use magpieRSS and learn a little mySQL.

Our ICT suite started to come together today, we got a phone call yesterday to tell us to expect deliveries.

The classroom assistants did a great clean up

Hugh helped stacking the furniture

Quite a lot of boxes

And by the end of the day the plaster had been done

We are expecting the decorators on Monday and the guys to put the furniture together on Wednesday

For me the icing on the cake arrived just after the plasterers:

I am really looking forward to getting down to work with the suite and the mini suite of 4 mac minis. A few children were working with my iBook today to produce a comic life of two, which have been published on Sandaig Otters, I am hoping to that this sort of activity a lot further as the session progresses.

Image uploaded with AppleScript

Recently I’ve been testing alternative ways to post to the blog with the metaWeBlog API via AppleScript, Flock,Performancing, Ecto and TextMate.
It took me a while to get TextMate working and AppleScript worked for everything but posting images.
I got a ton of help on the pivot forum from hansfn, who was very patient with me, and spent a good while reading docs and googling, but I could not get AppleScript to upload images.
Last night I posted a comment on Tom Smith’s Blog this morning a script arrived in my inbox that worked perfectly.
It is always a great pleasure when this happens, people who you do not know giving up time to help out a stranger.

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Tim Lauer is Moving to Drupal. The setup sounds great:

For example each of our 4th and 5th grade teachers will have a blog which she will use to post assignments and announcements to students. Each 4th and 5th grade student will have a Drupal based blog that will live behind our firewall.

and

While we plan to introduce this to the students as a way to manage their work, we also will begin to introduce the idea that their class blog is a place for them to do other things besides just respond to assignments. We will also enable the images module so that they can use their Drupal blog as a place to organize images associated with their work. Using RSS we will create a master feed of all images and create a Flickr type collection of images that they can share and discuss with their classmates.

Sound just great. I am wondering if Drupal is suitable for hosted sites, how hard it is to setup etc, etc.

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I am just testing an AppleScript from Adam Burt which takes a screenshot of google earth and posts it to a blog via ecto. does lots of tagging and produces metadata too. Designed for blojsom I’ve tweaked the html a bit for pivot.
Details and download of the script from Google Earth Geo-Blog Snapshot – ecto Script plug-in.
I know little about google Earth, but I know there are a few folk out there who might like this.

meta-longitude=-4.322157262071
meta-latitude=55.878416254973
meta-altitude=0
meta-range=156.059623386301
meta-tilt=0.0
meta-heading=5.009656812371E-14
meta-coordinates=-4.322157262071,55.878416254973,0

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I’ve occasionally dipped my toe into flash (eg Rommy Robot and some here) but not much more than the occasional image gallery, display and the odd experement in the last year or two. I am still really using actionscript 1 and it seems to be at 3.0 now!

But I read the odd flash blog and toaday saw IFBIN via Moock: IFBIN 2.0, hundreds of free, open examples, which has 100s of free examples, I’ve not really dug into them yet, but the way the files are delivered seems interesting, you launch the application and it opens your browsers which load a localhost port http://localhost:5505/flash/:

The IFBIN Service provides code installation, subscription management, and allows one click access to top quality code from the industries best developers. The service designed to provide code security in file verification and code signing. The IFBIN Service will only install files that are signed and verified as authentic.

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I am not sure how many Scots-Edu bloggers are interested in flash, except ab but if you are, the price is right, safety seems ensured.