Way Back Time Machine

Way Back Time Machine

by MG79MkIV

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April 28, 2011

For my last assignment, I decided to post on the Web assignment for the Way Back Time Machine. I love this website, I’ve used it before, and I’m always fascinated to look back and see what things used to look … Continue reading →
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Words of Wisdom

by MG79MkIV

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April 27, 2011

Future 106ers, I am writing to offer some advice regarding Jim Groom’s DS106. It would be easy to say, ” You have to take this class, it was a blast!” In all honesty that is far from the truth. I … Continue reading →
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Fandom

by MG79MkIV

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April 27, 2011

Fun assignment! I decided to give photshop another shot, since I still have a free trial. I am a HUGE fan of the Geico Gecko. I think most people are. I am also, obviously, a HUGE fan of the little … Continue reading →
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New Visual Assignment

by MG79MkIV

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April 26, 2011

This is an example of the new visual assignment (Car Lust) that I posted on the ds106 site. This is a 1973-1974 MG Midget. The car is absolutely amazing. When I look at this car, I feel like an old … Continue reading →
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Front Wings

by MG79MkIV

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April 23, 2011

So here’s another post for my on-going project. This is a short how to for removing the front fenders ( or wings) on an MG Midget. This series ought to apply to most of the little MG and Sprite cars … Continue reading →
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Dream Garage!!!!!!

by MG79MkIV

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April 17, 2011

So, I’ve been working on my mashup. It’s not a mind blowing piece of art, and there was a few little things I was not able to figure out in Photshop,but the deadline is approaching, so figured i ought quit … Continue reading →
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Favorite MashUps

by MG79MkIV

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April 14, 2011

I spent some time looking at some mashups over the last week or so. One of my favorites is the example that Jim put on the asssignmnet post (http://gephy.umwblogs.org/2010/11/09/mashup/). I love how the author/creator incorporated so many different elements, and … Continue reading →
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Stripping the Doors

by MG79MkIV

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April 9, 2011

As my second post for my ongoing project, here’s a short pictorial walk through of how to strip the door panels off a car. These are some pics of the doors on my 79 MG. While the door panels are … Continue reading →
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Video Essay Assignment

by MG79MkIV

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April 2, 2011

So, as I’m sure everyone else found out, this assignment was loads of fun. It was an absolute pain in the ass to set up and figure everything out. First I downloaded my video clips from YouTube, but I didn’t … Continue reading →
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Response to Praxis 2.0: Escaping the edu-travelogue.

by MG79MkIV

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March 27, 2011

Interesting article…..and I appreciate Jim warning us about the technical language (edu jargon, etc). It is interesting to see the conflict between originality and creativity. I understand how some might feel that remixing someone else’s work does not create a … Continue reading →
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¡¡¡PEEP SHOW!!!

by MG79MkIV

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March 20, 2011

This assignment was so much fun! I had a blast. I see stuff like his all the time. Two that I’ve seen recently were both on the Fail Blog (failblog.org) were one with the whole Star Wars crew bashing on … Continue reading →
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Stripping the Body Paint

by MG79MkIV

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March 13, 2011

I decided to post this as the first of my Ongoing Project posts. In the gallery below are some pics of my MG, before and after I started stripping the paint off the body. I’ve attached comments to each … Continue reading →
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On Going Story

by MG79MkIV

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February 25, 2011

So, I’ve been thinking about my on going story for DS 106, and I think I finally got some ideas together. What I’d like to do is, over the next several weeks, write a series of how to’s for working … Continue reading →
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Audio Assignmnet

by MG79MkIV

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February 19, 2011

This assignment was awesome! I found all my sound bites from http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/ and http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/. Both of these sites had hundreds of free sounds to download. I save all the sounds I wanted into a folder on my desktop, then opened … Continue reading →
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Fav Design ( of my own)

by MG79MkIV

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February 18, 2011

I enjoyed these last two weeks of assignments. This is the first time I’ve done a lot of these things, especially online. It’s neat to play around with everything, and figure out how to do the debugging and stuff like … Continue reading →
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Fav Sound Story

by MG79MkIV

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February 18, 2011

So, I just saw AshleyMegan’s sound story. If you haven’t listened to it, you should. It’s great. (http://ashleymegan.info/2011/02/17/yogi-bear/soundstory) Not at all what I expected when it first started playing. I started out all quite and peaceful. And then……. Hilarious. … Continue reading →
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My Fav Pic!

by MG79MkIV

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February 18, 2011

This was by far my fav pic from the 2 weeks of the Daily Shoot Assignment. Granted, I might be a lil bias, as SAMIAM is my fiancée, but this pic still blows my mind. For me, this pic just … Continue reading →
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Playlist Story (Visual Assignment)

by MG79MkIV

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February 12, 2011

This is my visual assignment. This one was def cool. Looking through my playlist, I was able to pull songs with the words I was looking for, just by using the search feature in itunes. It was kinda cool to … Continue reading →
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Design Assignment

by MG79MkIV

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February 12, 2011

So here’s my first design assignment. It was fun to play with and try out some different things. My first two attempts did not work out too well. I ended up doing most of the initial set up in MS … Continue reading →
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Five Card Flickr

by MG79MkIV

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February 8, 2011

Five Card Story: A day of Service a Five Card Flickr story created by MG79MkIV flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by D’Arcy Norman flickr photo by cogdogblog flickr photo by cogdogblog flickr photo by hummingcrow I woke up early … Continue reading →
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Daily Shoots

by MG79MkIV

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February 1, 2011

I’m really liking this daily shoots assignment. Its fun, easy, and entertaining. I’ve always enjoyed photography, but never have the time, or make the time to do any. This is a cool way to kinda get back into it. I’m … Continue reading →
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My own lil Story

by MG79MkIV

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January 27, 2011

So I created a slideshow using scrapblog.com. It’s fairly short for now, I’ll have to go in and add some more pics and text descriptions. I found this kinda cool to use because this is my first project actually using … Continue reading →
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Thoughts on Web 2.0

by MG79MkIV

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January 25, 2011

I’m pretty new to this whole blogging, RSS thing. This in fact is my first blog site, and even over the past 6 or 7 years of having either Facebook, or MySpace back in the day, I never really wrote … Continue reading →
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Experimenting with my blog

by MG79MkIV

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January 22, 2011

So I’ve got some plugins and widgets set up. Twitter tools was frustrating to say the least. Google analytics was as well. I think I finally got both of them on the second try. I breezed through the Akismet setup, … Continue reading →
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Akismet API Code Tutorial

by MG79MkIV

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January 18, 2011

Follow this link for a tutorial on obtaining your Akismet API Code. Akismet Tuturial
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Response to Gardner Campbell’s essay, Assignment 2

by MG79MkIV

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January 16, 2011

So I just read Campbell’s essay on Personal Cyberinfrastructures. Here’s my thoughts. What really stuck out to me was the first two lines, ” Sometimes progress is linear. Sometimes progress is exponential:…” My first thought was “Wow, this is just … Continue reading →
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30 Sec Intro

by MG79MkIV

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January 16, 2011

I bought my lil MG Midget in the summer of 2009 from a co-workers husband. It didn’t need all that much, new tires, rebuild the carburetor, etc. I got it home and started cleaning it up. The last thing to … Continue reading →
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