Things that I’ve done in the past seven days:
* Spent most of the time in Logan, UT. It’s been _very_ snowy.
* Took “Madeline”:http://yergler.net/Madeline to “PetCamp”:http://petcamp.com where I agreed to pay $4 for the “Super Bowl Special” — extra play time, a hot dog, a “doggie beer”:http://www.beerfordogs.com/, and the game on the television. Not that I was planning to watch myself, but who can say no to doggie beer?
* Went skiing with Richard at “Beaver Mountain”:http://skithebeav.com; photos coming.
* Participated in the OER(Open Educational Resource) Sprint at “COSL”:http://cosl.usu.edu/. While there I’ve been working on the “CC Learn”:http://learn.creativecommons.org Open Education Search. This entailed learning more about “Nutch”:http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ than I ever planned, but I’m getting the hang of it.
* Helped (for some definition of “help”) develop “oerfeeds.info”:http://oerfeeds.info — a single location sites can register their feeds at (RSS, Atom, “OPML”:http://opml.org/ or OAI-PMH(Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)) so they can be used by other sites building on OER.
Tomorrow I head to Los Angeles for “SCALE”:http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/; I’ll be “speaking”:http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/speakers/Nathan-Yergler/ on Sunday about integrating CC into applications. Woot[1].
fn1. Yeah, “Woot” is usually followed by an exclamation point. But after 48 hours of J2EE(Java 2 Enterprise Edition) coding, my brain is feeling distinctly mush-like.