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Less than honorable end to Lisa Nowak’s career

Chris — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:46:41 +0000

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Navy should discharge former astronaut Lisa Nowak, who lost her NASA job over a bizarre airport attack on a romantic rival, according to a Navy panel that reviewed her case. The panel of three admirals made the recommendation Thursday after a daylong hearing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville. The [...]

Going Mobile

Chris — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:31:39 +0000

This week seems especially charged with websites “going mobile” or at least being mobile compatible. Following in their footsteps (and pushed along by a colleague) I’ve added the Carrington mobile theme to all my WordPress sites. UPDATE: I found this article by Bruce Lawson (@brucel) on the Opera Developers site titled Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide.

Outlook 2010 Social Connector

Chris — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:30:23 +0000

I’m putting this in the journal just in case a year from now this works out. I could totally see us doing this with some services at my department: I’m happy to announce that a new member has joined the Outlook platform family. The new arrival has a long and formal name known as Microsoft Outlook [...]

Clearwater High School 20 Year Class Reunion

Chris — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:12:36 +0000

What was on my mind 20 years ago? I thought about 2010, the movie, and space travel, getting through college, and getting a good job. Now that it is 2010, we don’t live in space or even travel in flying-cars (they’re working on it), but I graduated college, and got a good job. The year 2010 [...]

Siems Obituaries

Chris — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:53:35 +0000

I don’t mean to be morbid, but I wanted to keep these online as part of my memories. Werner and Dianne were my dad and mom. Ruth was Werner’s sister, my aunt. WERNER ARTHUR SIEMS, 76, of Clearwater, Florida, died Wednesday, July 21, 2004, at Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor, Florida. He was born in Evansville, Ind., [...]

New Project: teamsiems tweets

Chris — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:36:18 +0000

If you look at my Projects page you’ll see I added the teamsiems tweets archive. It’s a pretty nice, simple way to archive tweets. In fact it’s a whole new instance of WordPress 3; I’m starting to like pre-fab UI.

Social Media Day

Chris — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:43:42 +0000

Mashable’s Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore declare’s today, June 30, is international social media day. http://mashable.com/smday/ http://twitter.com/mashSMday

Memorial Day Memphis Style

Chris — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:18:21 +0000

This is going to be a social media experiment. I want to share my experience as I cook ribs, and maybe get some feedback along the way. I’ll update this post along the way. It’s Memorial Day weekend and I want to try a new rib rub, Meathead’s Memphis Dust Rub Recipe. I already made [...]

Social Media In the Classroom [UPDATE]

Chris — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:33:49 +0000

Schools should educate kids about the world around them even if the kids get there first. Instead of dismissing social media as distracting or destructive, schools should embrace it as an essential part of the curriculum. Not only does this limit the potential for students to abuse the technology, but it opens a new set [...]

Gap Between Mainstream Media and the Social Web

Chris — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:21:04 +0000

Although blogs cover many of the same topics, the study found that bloggers tend to focus on more ideological and emotional stories — particularly those concerning human rights, like access to healthcare services or privacy on Facebook — and often with a personal or partisan angle. Bloggers also like to make a story out of [...]