Gerald R. Lucas

How cool is this? You can now have Google Gadgets on your web site, and it’s easy. Go browse their list of available gadgets (there are a number of them), and pick one from your site. Each seems to be very easy to customize, like my map of the Macon area above; when you;re finished, [...]

I have been as busy as a busy thing lately, and my blog has suffered for it. I know that nobody really reads this thing, so this is just a personal admonition. I truly believe that writing is something that needs to be used, or it will evanesce quicker than a Hummer burns gas. Anyway, [...]

Fd has some up with another cool Flickr toy: the profile widget. Here, I’m advertising the Macon, GA group I started when I joined Flickr. I haven’t posted anything there lately, and I have been pretty scarce around Flickr. Oh well, soon… That reminds me: I have been thinking about starting an online community for [...]

I am existing solely on the computer these days, it seems. I’ve been redesigning all of my classes, and it has been as difficult as taking Calculus as a freshman. I have not really been able to do anything else, including working on papers for conferences that will be here before I know it, and [...]

OK, so I know I’m a dork. Is it obvious that I’m reading? However, I really think these mini videos will be very effective for my teaching, especially for students that might miss the first night, since we don’t have mandatory attendance for the first class at MSC. As the video suggests, I plan to [...]

Web Browser. The most important computer application today is the web browser. I gotta hand it to Microsoft; they knew this years ago when they crushed Netscape. They knew something that many did not suspect: that the humble web browser would become the most important application on the home computer, perhaps even more important than [...]