Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: December 2007

  • Enrollments

    In spelunking the Vista database, the main pieces of an enrollment are the user, the learning context, the membership, the role, and the role’s label. Its almost trivial how easily these tie together. Once you have them, then you can do all kinds of cool things… Administrator reports Section Designer role was deleted but the…

  • From Amy for Christmas

    From Amy for Christmas, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Polar Bear Cup – Its giant… Maybe two normal ones in volume?

  • Feng Shui Compass

    Feng Shui Compass, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Souvenir from George from his Oracle Open World trip in November. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui

  • Everything to Everyone

    This is intended to be a more thoughtful response to Laura regarding Course Management Systems and the need for innovation. Currently, Course Management Systems are bloatware. They got this way by trying to provide everything to everyone. One instructor wants a feature, the university presses for this feature, the CMS programmers put in the feature.…

  • D&D for Dummies

    Maybe kids these days are not that bright. D&D for Dummies says it all. (I thought it was an April Fols type prank.) I suspect some marketing researcher found lots of people felt intimidated? Even worse than being less intelligent. Its… a… game… Have fun! Who cares if its “right”? Between high school and college,…

  • Emergence

    Right…. Forgot there is a term for growing complexity in the Universe: Emergence

  • Merry Christmas

    Back when I was Catholic, the two masses I enjoyed the most were Christmas and Easter. I listen to Christmas music throughout the year. Birth and death are a fascinating duality of life. A material death is simple… The Second Law of Thermodynamics represents the scattering of the particles of which we are composed. Life…

  • Power of Assumptions

    Being single, people offer up lots of places to find love offline and more frequently of late online. Almost everyone knows of the common profile browsing or question testing dating web sites. This site scares the hell out of me…. Welcome to a new era of human relationships. We’re the only introduction service that creates…

  • Reflecting on Traffic

    Reflecting on Traffic, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Read and post comments | Send to a friend