Continuing to ramble
Who needs a 3D Printed Harry Potter Deathly Hallows pendant?
Probably nobody. It’s been 12 years since the book and nine since part one of the movie. You people have moved on to new interests, after all.
Still, I did have fun doing the design, so I’ll leave it out here for you to see.
If you want the gruesome details of how it was done, go to my 3D page: http://runeman.org/3d/
Gardens and Goodies – a remix of a photo from Karen’s blog https://www.kbtechworks.com/kbranch/blog/archives/4690 … @kfasimpaur #CLMooc #SmallPoems
Text on image:
Potential
Lovely potential in the pots.
Soon to be spread in garden plots.
May there be plenty sun and rain
And your harvests reap you lots.
A few years ago, a group of educators banded together online to share ideas about learning for themselves and for their own students.
The summer of the northern hemisphere happens to be the time when public school teachers have time away from their teaching duties, well, except for all the planning they do for the following school year.
The well-respected National Writing Project initially provided support to get this Connected Learning Massively Online Open “Class” going.
It quickly became less of a formal class than many MOOCs which are offered through universities.
Projects are open ended and frequently informal. Start when you can. Do what you are able to do and want to try. Use the skills and tools you have, but try to be open to learning new tools (routinely no cost online and even FLOSS – Free Software) so you can add to your set of skills/tools and have new options available for use in your own classroom setting.
To get involved, you do not need to be a teacher. That’s just the core profession of this group of people eager to be “Creative Learners”. CLMOOC SITE
/ˈram(ə)l
noun
English Regional, Midlands, Scottish, Northern
1 Small stunted trees or bushes collectively; a thicket. Now Scottish.
2 Broken bricks or stones, rubble; waste material; (more generally) rubbish. Now English regional.
3 Shale, occurring in a thin stratum, often found just above the coal seam.
Origin
Middle English (in an earlier sense). Probably partly from Anglo-Norman ramail, ramaile, ramayle, ramale, from rame branch + -elle.
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Ronnie rambled through the rammel and the rubble. A kid can make a playground from just about anything.
/fjuːˈnambjʊlɪst/
noun
A tightrope walker.
Origin
Late 18th century: from French funambule or Latin funambulus (from funis ‘rope’ + ambulare ‘to walk’) + -ist.
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Ray was proud of his skills as a funambulist, but he was working to become a funcurroist to run across the rope.
[One should probably note that unlike a baby learning to walk, it is far harder to crawl on a tightrope than walk (to be a funserperist).]
I just updated my recent reading page. I keep short notes about each book I read on that page to help me remember. Some books are less memorable than others these days, at least for me. At the same time, I noticed that the associated RSS feed page was not showing the dates correctly. I write my own XML file in a text editor, and I had improperly left off the year portion of the date field.
It was an oversight. In other RSS feed files, I was doing it correctly, but all during 2018, I had been forgetting to add that “2018” data.
Fortunately, the page worked in Firefox without the year component. I hope it worked in other people’s feed readers. I don’t know.
Nobody complained.
Was that an oversight, too?
Maintaining a website is not too difficult, but it does benefit from some periodic cleanup. Occasionally, I make a typo and other times I mangle a link. No matter what the problem, it is a bother to anybody who visits the site. Therefore, I watch the error logs and make an effort to find a fix.
Recently, I noticed that somebody, probably a bot, is trying to take control of the site by doing a login. It isn’t the first time, but it is the first time I’ve decided to to write notes about it.
There are unscrupulous people out there. Some of them write software to cruise the Internet for sites where they can plant malware to spread it more widely. In geek terms, they want to “pwn” the site. They want to “OWN” it. I don’t want them to succeed, but I dislike the 404 errors.
The logs recently showed that “someone” has tried to access a folder called “login” 59 times, 2 times just this week. Up until today, that folder has not existed, which caused the webserver software to generate the error, affectionately known as a “404 – File not found” error. I am not happy when my typos have caused a useful file to not work, especially when somebody wants to access my 3D printing stuff. I’m equally unhappy that the creeps want to capture my site.
My solution for a typo is easy. I fix it. A broken link, also easy if the file is mislabeled on my site.
For the missing login folder, the solution was to make one, and to fill it with a couple of files designed to waste the time of a bot, or to inform a visiting human of the reason they won’t get in by this pathway.
You are welcome to go see the new pages and try to log in yourself. No matter what you enter into the form, the same message comes up again and again.
Just in case you want to see it, I’ve also created a custom 404 error page. I think that it is better to make the missing file give more back than just a numbered error. I recommend everybody with a website set up one of their own.
