Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: October 2008

  • Zeroed In

    Zeroed In, originally uploaded by Ezra F. I took this picture by reducing the amount of light in camera because the one with a normal level got washed out. Interesting effect.

  • Water

    From George Hernandez… You can lead a horse to water, but he will just drown.

  • Propaganda

    Wow… I have been ignoring a lot of propaganda lately. Work will often send email to all the employees. A filter sends those to my propaganda folder. I only have 5 for the first three days of September and 11 for the first three days of October. Not a promising start. Of course, it is…

  • Forcing Weblogic’s Config.xml

    Let’s nevermind why I am working on this in the first place. Namely… the Blackboard Learning Environment Connector introduced using the hostname and port for applet URLs in Vista 8 Blackboard, Blackboard dropped WebCT’s support for using a different port for an application when behind a load balancer. So we found out we could use…

  • Truncate Table

    Earlier in the week I picked on a DBA at UGA for wanting to use truncate learning_context. Overheard at the office a developer used truncate and caused those DBAs to recover the data. Ugh.