Yesterday I officially graduated from Multimedia Production at Confederation College.  I’ve decided to take most of the summer off, since the last 3 years have been all work and school.  I’ll begin looking for work or clients in August.

CushyCMS is an interesting new CMS that doesn’t require any software to be downloaded and installed on your server. It allows clients to easily edit website content by logging into the CushyCMS website. The editable regions are defined by the website developer, which is done by adding class=”cushycms” to any div tag. However, it uses FTP to connect to files on your server, so this may deter most people.

The inspiring last lecture by Randy Pausch, a CS professor from CMU, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

I’ve bought the Rogers Portable Internet service. At the moment I’m trying the Basic plan. It’s easy to setup, simply plug the wireless modem into any power outlet then connect it to your computer with an ethernet cable. I’m using it with a wireless router and it’s working great. http://your.rogers.com/store/cable/InternetContent/PI_compare.asp

Docebo is an e-Learning platform that supports 12 languages, is compliant to the SCORM 1.2 standard, and different didactic models.

Jason Fried’s article “Start a business, not a startup” on the 37signals company blog Signal vs. Noise is worth reading for new entrepreneurs.

Habari is a blogging patform still in development, which is supported by talented and well respected coders and developers.

Dave Shea has reviewed my design submission from 2 years ago (May 2/06). It didn’t make the final list, but he was kind enough to include it in the other submissions. My 2006 submission is titled “Equation Fiasco” - Visit CSS Zen Garden