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Frida Kahlo

Friday, October 24th, 2008

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There are some tremendous grape vines growing on the south side of my house. The vines were planted years ago by my landlord and each year we get buckets of concord, himrod, and canadice grapes. Usually, we make a little juice or jelly and let the rest go to the birds. This year, Jamie and I decided to take a chance on wine.

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Took most of the day to pick, de-stem and crush grapes. A press would have expedited the process, but we did fairly well with just a colander and an old pot. At the end of the day, we had 22 gallons brewing. 12 of concord, 5 of candice and 5 of a medially (mixed). This should produce at least 50 bottles of … something. Each brew was a different color. I will add the yeast tomorrow.

If it seems to be brewing well - I will come back and add the recipe.

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The Accessible Video Interface

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The age of video on the Web is here! Both content creators and users have high expectations and you may become caught in the middle. Learn how to create an accessible media interface that will allow your institution to deliver high quality Flash video with closed captioning, convey a consistent design across your Web presence, and remain easy to maintain even after your “small” project is unexpectedly scaled to include hundreds of videos.

Downloads to get you started:

Download:
- Version 1.0 (basic, a good place to start)
- Version 1.1 (recently used in production)
- Version 1.2 (adds full screen, link to transcript)
Examples:
- View the basic and production versions
- dfxp.xml caption file
- smil.xml file