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QuestionMark v CE/Vista
Two vendors. Both think the problem must be the other’s fault. Because you know… Their product is perfect. They never have design issues. Ever. So it must be someone else’s fault. Problem 1: Upon loading the zip package into the CE/Vista SCORM module, the end user saw: The SCORM package is not compliant with SCORM…
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TED Talk: Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
A friend pointed out this TED Talk by Bill Gates. Specifically he pointed out a group photograph of people serving at the Baha’i World Center is used in the talk to represent the people of the world. You can find it at 4 minutes 36 seconds.
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Pilgrimage
Two weeks ago I met my mother at the airport to fly to Israel and make our way to Haifa, Israel to participate in the greatest bounty: Bahá’àpilgrimage. Before making the trip, my life had settled into a funk. Back in 2005, Lacey invited me to her wedding in Chicago at the Bahá’àHouse of Worship.…
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Decisions, Decisions
“The way to make better decisions is to make more of them” -Anthony Robbins We do learn from retrospective analysis of effects. I question the need to make our own bad decisions in order to learn. We ought to be able to watch others make mistakes and avoid them.
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Non-Secure Content
Apparently designers are embedding video from external sources in our Vista 8 environment. Internet Explorer complains when elements of a secure page reference non-secure elements. In this case, CE/Vista has the secure page. The embedded video is a non-secure element. At best the IE complaint is to prompt the user to pick whether to view…
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Unable to locate the page you requested
The CE/Vista error “Unable to locate the page you requested” is supposed to be a more user friendly error than the HTTP 404 Page Not Found. Okay, sure between the two, more users would understand the CE/Vista one than the generic HTTP one. The only suggestion for dealing with these is to contact the server…
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Facebook Link RSS
The people I know on Facebook post fascinating things. [1] The people I count as my “Facebook friends” have something interesting to say. I enjoy reading the partisan politics, science, recipes, web comics, and even the celebrity gossip my contacts post. The status updates are one way. Links are another way. Since Facebook copied the…
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On Loving Our Enemies
In honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., it seems we need his wisdom more than ever. A friend posted part of this on Facebook, so I found this expanded version. Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiples hate, adding deeper darkness to a…