When I started this blog in 2002, it was with the intention of it becoming a repository of links to stories I was interested in.  It has evolved over the past eight years to become that and much else.  While my weekly links roundups serve much the same purpose as the original story file, the [...]

I’ve been meaning for a while to update my portfolio site, ianhecht.com.  While it was an okay way of showing websites that I’d created, it wasn’t especially fantastic-looking and didn’t list much else that I worked on.  I like the look of the Flavors.me sites, but they can only show things that have some kind [...]

I signed up for ClustrMaps last year at this time – it’s the service that generates the little red-spotted map at the botton-right of the page.  Basically, it uses the geographic data from each visitor’s electronic trail to mark a world map of where they’re surfing from.  The result is this:

As the counter at the [...]

Sorry to anyone who’s had troubles accessing the site recently – my host was having issues with my site. Apparently, one of the plugins for the blog had generated in excess of 6000 database entries in one table alone, which was making the queries extremely slow and CPU intensive. Because I’m on shared [...]

I posted some of my fiction on a page on this site, but since I don’t know how many people read this on RSS, I’m going to post about a page.  My blog will then tweet about the post about the page.  Yeesh!
Anyway, if you’re interested in reading what I’ve wrought, you can check it [...]

Thought you ought to know… the blog’s anniversary is coming up mid-June, but we pass another landmark today – 2,000 posts!  Yay us!  Also, we have passed the 2,000 comment mark (we actually would have crossed a long while back if I had been able to import the comments from the 1st incarnation of the [...]

I’ve been tagged by @plainenglish for the “7 things you might not know about me” meme. I’m always down for a good meme, so here we go!  The rules:
- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
- Tag seven [...]

I don’t have a Flickr account.  I haven’t had a Blogger account in 4 years.  I just got onto Diigo, Google Reader and Twitter this year.  And yet, I blog, I have an online gallery of photos, I had a personal repository of bookmarks.  In the past I’ve hosted forums, statistics databases and other [...]

Most thoughtful posts:

The death of school
The price of freedom of speech
Edupunk is knobbly
Universal or personal salvation?

Big news:

Canadian coup d’état
Elections:

The *United* States? I don’t think so
There’s gotta be a better way

Nerdiest:

3 laws safe?
Digital life

Most visited:

Homework debate
Product review: Logitech Freepulse Bluetooth headphones

Most random:

Weird crossover moments

No surprise, the two big topics for the year were politics and education.  [...]

For the third year running, I’m going back over the first post of every month to see a smattering of what we’ve talked about over the last year.  For every month, you get the post title and the first sentence or two.  Also, the author, if it wasn’t me.
January
Iowa (Micky)
Interesting results out of Iowa yesterday.  [...]

As I’ve mentioned previously, I have been attempting to “massage” the search listings on Google for Ian Hecht and Marturia (although, to be honest, we’ve been the top result for marturia for a while without me having to do anything about it).  Occasionally, I check the referrer logs to see what else brings people to [...]

For at least the next week or so, the possibility of posting will be quite curtailed – my internet is down until at least Saturday, so if you don’t hear from me, that’s why…