ForThatMatter

I don't have this experience in Opera but sometimes in Firefox I get black specks after a paragraph return. They act funny too. Sometimes, if I just press enter they go away and other times I have actually seem them disappear on their own - while I'm looking at them they just vanish. This happens a lot when I copy and past text.

Heres a screen grab of them


Odd hey? Anyone else experiencing this?

I started using Del.icio.us casually a while back but recently decided to upload my bookmarks. I have been thinking about moving this type of stuff online for a while but never really wanted to sort through all my bookmarks and tag them. I decided to slowly update my imported bookmarks a few every other day. So far so good. Through this experience i have started to notice a few things I'd like changed. I suppose that statement sets up this post as a "to be continued" sort-of-thing. Anyway.

Tag bundling is great. I like the concept of having this automatically placed into a defined folder/label/whatever. What I want in addition to this is tag grouping. I do lots of tags like "visual communication design" and want that as one tag. Perhaps putting tag phrases into quotes would automatically create a bundle. Maybe that...

I also noticed when I do in page (i don't know how else to describe it) bookmark editing. I get Title, URL, Notes, Tags but using the del.icio.us firefox extension, when I "tag this page" I get URL, description, notes, tags. Consistency is what I want here. Perhaps both are needed. I have been bookmarking for my thesis and as a result would like to put a short description in with a tile. For example, the title to the article and my brief description about the article.

Perhaps all these issues are just because I'm fairly new to de.icio.us or maybe not.

I'm building a glossary for my thesis and as part of the process am
trying to crunch definitions to build a better understanding of terms.
I'm struggling with mapping differences between computer-based and
computer-enhanced instructional aids. So wanted to throw these two
terms at the group and ask for your help in defining them. Is there
differences? Do they mean different things? Does computer-enhanced
inherently mean computer-based? Does computer-enhanced imply design
and learning process beyond computer-based?

Hope you can help.

Thanks

keywords
elearning, computer-based, computer-enhanced, instructional aid, learning, instruction

I just read two interesting Digg titles. One 'Woman Has Rare Case of the "Black Death"' and 'Dual Monitors Increase Productivity by up to 30%'(the links redirect to the article not to digg). What interests me about the first post in timing. I thought it funny that a post about the bubonic plague would surface days after an episode on HOUSE - the TV show - of that same topic. Funny how the media works. The second post reminded me of a Digg 'How to convince your boss to buy you a big monitor!' posted about a month ago and now the NY Times has an article of the same vein just now two monitors. I'm suspicious that the MY Times is in cahoots with LCD makers. To be honest, it's all the reasoning I need to save my pennies.

End observations...

Today, I started using Google calendar(GC). I've been waiting some time for this to go live. Well, it's still beta, does that count as live? Regardless, I was quick to dump my outlook calendar(OC) to GC to be one step further from depending on outlook(it has been a not-so-good experience - not bad, just not great). The first few times importing Google wouldn't let me. I don't know why, but the import hung then I received a weird server side error. Don't ask what it was, I didn't write it down - sorry. I went in and edited my cvs file, tried again and it worked. Let me warn anyone doing this it was a mess. I don't know how other people organize there calendars but my OC was one big file. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays... you name it. And when I imported it into GC It was one big mess. I would suggest making all your calendars in GC before importing. Then, if your OC exported cvs file is like mine - one large contain all - then strip out the information and make different cvs files for each calendar in GC. That was you can do multiple imports and keep everything nice and clean. Also, if you're currently in my situation - moving, deleting, and creating calendar events (after importing the one big cvs file, not doing what I suggested above because you are almost done and you don't want to start over (run on much)) - only towards the beginning you can always delete your calendar, do what I suggested above and re-import. Make sense?

Beyond all that, I have noticed a couple things I would like to see implemented. For example, I would like the option to search for all event containing "a word" and delete them all at once. I've also noticed that there is no scroll bar for searches that give a lot of results (beyond the bottom of the page). And I would love to see tasks implemented.

So far, I'm very happy with GC. I like that I can share a calendar with research partners. I love the show/hide check box for calendars and the colour coding. I really like the integration with gMail. I can't wait to see more. Come on features come on...

Edit...
About repeated events, I really want the option to set a repeated day on an abstract date like the first Monday in August sort of thing. That would be great.