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- george: Very true. Indeed this is what airlines need to do. Thanks for the link, Ez!
- Ezra F: Blackboard is fully aware we run query against the main application tables part of the main application and not just the PowerSight Kit....
- J: Thanks for that. We don’t query against the database apart from the views supplied as part of the PowerSight Kit as I was under the...
- Ez: The easiest way is a SQL query combining trk_person, trk_action, trk_user_action , trk_page, trk_session, and learning_contex t. The...
- J: Saw a demo of Blackboard NextGen at BBWorldEurope and it looked like an improvement. v9 will be the start of Project NG culminating in v10. I...
- J: Most error reports find their way to me after the user has logged out and therefore cannot find out what node they are on. Have you found a...
- J: Interesting. We have not yet had a request like this. Like you we only create new users and not update from our student information system....
- mattl: thank you, exactly the problem i just had and now a solution
- Wannabe George: “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.̶ 1;...
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Feb
19
Marbles in the Mouth
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Dava Sobel on John Harrison in Longitute:
Harrison, according to those who admired him most, never could express himself clearly in writing. He wrote with the scrivener’s equivalent of marbles in his mouth…. The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually punctuated, for twenty-five pages.
I propose we call long winded typing which no can understand the point “Marble keys”.
Feb
7
All Good Things
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A good one…
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
- Rene Descartes
From Michelle so she can be quoted…
If you don’t feel and don’t want and don’t love, all you do is breathe and eat.
Feb
3
Archilochus (Greek lyric poet and soldier, 675-635bc)
The fox has many tricks, and the hedgehog only one, but that is the best of all.
Ingrid Bergman
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ray Bradbury
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Seymoure Cray
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
Feb
2
Image of God
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I picked up Einstein and Religion the other day. Its been a compelling read as I am about 1/3 through in just over 24 hours. Both of these come from pages 74-75.
Maimonides:
Our Knowledge [of God] consist in knowing that we are unable to comprehend Him.
Spinoza:
On your question whether I have a clear idea of God as I have of triangle, I would answer in the affirmative; but on your question whether I have a clear image of God as I have of triangle, I would answer in the negative. For of God no image can be made.
Sep
13
Generalization
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, com a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
– Robert A. Heinlein
Found in John Samaras’ email signature. I served as an Ex-Officio member of the Faculty Senate Technology Subcommittee of which he was a member and at one point chair.
Aug
8
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Rita Mae Brown - Wikiquote
Jun
9
Happy?
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)
From The Quotations Page
Mar
1
Insanity
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
The Quotations Page
Very nice! I’m nearly insane from working with computers.
Feb
17
Trust
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[David Weinberger:] “There is an inverse relationship between control and trust.” The more you hand over control, the more trust you earn. True of media, business, government. He also said that trust is not a goal but an enabler: if you have trust, you can do more.
Jan
18
Something Your Boss Doesn’t Want To Hear
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Quote for the day:
I spent all day working on a bad EAR.
Oh, WebLogic and your deplorable… I mean, deployable… applications!
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