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Como Park Alliance

Como Park Alliance

Living in Como Park is great. I am within walking distance from a conservatory, a zoo, a lake, a golf coarse, a wonderful natural woods, and many, many activities that are going on almost nightly.
Como Park is almost too much of a good thing judging from the traffic and parking congestion.
I just wrote about joining [...]

Schweiss Reunion in Minnesota 2008

Schweiss Reunion in Minnesota 2008

My wife, Ann Mayhew, and I went to a Schweiss Reunion in Minnesota the first Saturday in August, 2008. Ann’s mother was a Schweiss and had lots of brothers and sisters. Dick Schweiss has a Schweiss genealogy website if you want the total picture.
To see photos and videos of the Schweiss reunion go to our [...]

Burdock Bust at Como Park Woodland Outdoor Classroom

Burdock Bust at Como Park Woodland Outdoor Classroom

I went to help with the Burdock Bust behind the Como Park Pool this morning at 9 am. I decided to video tape what they were doing instead and write it up for my COMOPARK.US website. The video can be seen by clicking below.
Burdock Bust at the Como Park Woodland from Art Oglesby on Vimeo.
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Using Twine to enable learning current science

I first started reading Nova Spivack’s blog “Minding the Planet” when I was beta testing Six Apart’s Typepad blogging tool. I remember a post in 2004 titled, “Minding the Planet: From Semantic Web to Global Mind”. I have been waiting four years to be part of this vision and my wait is almost over.
Over 30,000 [...]

I hacked my way in

I have been locked out of this blog for six months. I finally used a risky technique and figured out why my passwords and logins were failing. I was ready to delete the whole blog and start over. Look for a lot of changes soon.

Importing photos from Picasa Web

I am importing this photo by pasting in code provided by Picas Web. Various thumbnail size options are available. Clicking on this thumbnail takes you to the larger photo in my Picasaweb album. I think I will use this from now on.

Lost access to my blog

When I built my new computer, I no longer had autofill to sign in to this blog. I tried every combination of user ID and e-mail address I could think of. Nothing worked. Blue Host support recommended changing it it in my data matrix. The step by step instructions resulted in a successful reset. I [...]

blog

This post serves as a landing spot for all the permalinks that no longer exist. If I can learn how I hope to rebuild some of those old posts which go back to 04/04/04.

I am pulling out of BlogHarbor

I am pulling out of BlogHarbor

I am pointing artifactor.org toward my new service provider, BlueHost. I am switching because I hope to have three or more domains under one inexpensive hosting plan. I also want to use WordPress and TikiWiki.