Back and hungry

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The two days of conference were more of a blast than the two days of 17-hour driving were a drag. Almost immediately after getting back and suiting up to accept the Innovation Fund award, we …

Live from CLTA!

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We’re here in Florida conferencing it up. Things are going very well and we’re enjoying the lack of snow. We’ll be back next week, with a long drive back on Sunday. Too bad we’ll have …

Up, up, and away to Florida

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We’re ready and rearin’ to head out tomorrow for Orlando Florida and the Chinese Language Teachers Association conference. We’ll be gone until next Monday, but I’ll try to keep everyone up to date with regular …

Kittens For All

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Up until now, how things have been scheduled has been pretty simple. No longer! I’ve set up the beginnings of a dynamic scheduling algorithm that adjusts based on your own abilities. I’m going to see …

Downtime tonight

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We’re taking the site down tonight from 1am – 3am EST (GMT-5). (That’s Monday morning). This is for a bit of maintenance work and stroke order corrections. [Update] The maintenance is taking longer than expected. …

The Infant

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I’ve put up the first version of the Infant, which is the audio prompt system. When you do the tone on a character, the Infant will pronounce it. If you’re not scheduled to practice the …

Some downtime tonight

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App Engine got some upgrades tonight, which broke several parts of Skritter, since 9:00 p.m. EDT. We’ve patched it up locally, but there’s still some troubles over there preventing us from uploading the fixes. I’ll …

More Funding

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Well, for the past week I’ve been working on putting together a funding presentation for Lorain County Community College’s Innovation Fund. Today we went up and gave the presentation and it went generally pretty well …

Get Satisfaction

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I’m mauling on bugs, adding tiny featurettes, and making things faster. Meanwhile, I’ve added a new feedback widget from Get Satisfaction, which you may or may not like better than the old contact page. Give …

Eccentricity optional

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As one user points out, some of the crazy messages you get when you get something right can be pretty… crazy. They’re now opt-in, incarnate as the “Eccentric Flavor” option in the preferences page. I’ve …