I enjoyed the slow motion action shots of the geckos.
A blog without comments to me isn’t a blog. Blog posts are about stimulating discussion, so the comments are most important feature. Content without feedback is a publicity or news story not a blog. So Blackboard Blogs at educateinnovate.com isn’t really a blog.
Steve Feldman, Bb performance engineer, had the first Blackboard Inc blog with Seven Seconds. He mysteriously stopped last fall. 
Ray Henderson, new Bb President for Learn, has a blog. Read this introduction post. He specifically wants discussion and dialog. Someone at Blackboard who understands The Cluetrain Manifesto? I am hopeful this is a sign of positive change.
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Seems to me when involved in an IM chat with someone who sends 10 one line messages back to back, the purpose is to give me time to read already sent messages while typing the next. Apparently I wait for indications the other person has stopped typing before I even start to read what they have written. Why read a message when I know the other party is about to send something else? I can read both in a couple seconds. Waiting for the next is also a waste, especially when another is going to come on the heels of the second one.
Is my approach okay Netiquette? Am I a bad person for ignoring my friends and coworkers?
Apparently, these people posting several messages back to back violate the “Give time to respond.” rule of IM etiquette. Who tells people, “Hey, give me time to respond!” anyway? Maybe with more tact….
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Every time a Vista 3 node is shut down without going through the initiated shut down process, there is a chance of incorrect data written to the tracking files (in NodeA/tracking/). Normally it leaves strange characters or partial lines at the end of the file. This is the first time I have seen it write the contents of another log instead of the tracking data.
click – 1.0 – 1244228052889 – 1135588340001 – “nova.view.usg.edu-1244227762853-6288″ – SSTU – discussion – “compiled-message-viewed” – “page name” – 558711383 -
click – 1.0 – 1244228052891 – 15.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)”
2009-04-23 20:58:35 0.0030 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx JxH1zg4fZT1LTGcpmyNW 200 GET /webct/libraryjs.dowebct locale=en_US 0 “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)”
Even better. The node went down on June 5th at around 3pm. The lines from the other log were from April 23rd at 8:58pm.
Why am I surprised to see new incorrect behavior? Especially when the node was really confused?
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Last year, I blogged about Loving Day. To recap:
Loving Day is an educational community project. The name comes from Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in the United States. Loving Day celebrations commemorate the anniversary of the Loving decision every year on or around June 12th.
There is a list of Loving Day celebrations around the world. The Georgia one happened last month? Oh, well.
Do you have any plans? Maybe I can find a copy of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by then?
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GNBSS Rock Album Cover
Originally uploaded by Ezra F
Catching this shot was pure luck. I didn’t know she was doing it.
tag: photography
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About this talk from the TED site:
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.
She goes further than this blurb would indicate. She claims the drive towards professional degrees, aka “learning more and more about less and less”, results in a toxic brew dismantling Liberal Arts education. Losing this cross-disciplinary approach results in an inability to tackle the country’s and world’s problems which often require more than one discipline to understand them.
Focus on higher education as a means to a profession ignores these questions:
- What kind of a world are we making?
- What kind of a world should we be making?
- What kind of a world can we be making?
Parents are sending their children to college to get a good job. Solving the world’s problems isn’t part of the American dream. Well… outside of academia.
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Flipping channels, I ran across Deep Impact during a speech given by the president (played by Morgan Freeman).
The black president didn’t amaze me. Hollywood figured out how to portray them a decade before the US figured out how to elect one.
What amazed me is that with all the really cool forward looking technology for the time, instructions for how to communicate the evacuation was sent by fax to news agencies. Yeah, it wasn’t emailed. The White House didn’t post it on a web site. No mention of Facebook. 
Is NASA powering landing craft with nuclear drives?
At least since this movie aired we have implemented programs to discover both the large and medium objects capable of regional to global catastrophes.
We still need a plan to do something about the ones we anticipate will hit us. Or how about a plan to save our legacies? (The children, art, history)
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This is a test of the George blog watching system. If George in facts reads my blog, then he will see this trailer for a show he likes. If George actually had read my blog, then he would have made comments on previous posts. Thank you.
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Comment Spam Resumes
May 30, 2009 in Wordpress by Ez | 2 comments
Have spammers figured out how to pick reCAPTCHA’s lock? All of a sudden I am getting hundreds of comment spam blocked by Akismet. When I added reCAPTCHA, it dropped to a few a month. Now 409 in a week.
Guess this is why layers of security are good.
UPDATE: Scanned through for false positives. The first word of many of them were Xanth characters: Bink, Chameleon, Dolph, Iris, Smash, Goldy, Grundy, Cherie, Chester, Roogna, Imbri.
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