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Mozilla Prism Self-Signed SSL Issue
I have been looking to use Prism. A gotcha I hit was it balked at any site using a self-signed SSL certificate. A recommendation was to copy the cert8.db file from a Firefox profile to a Prism profile. This actually worked. Locating it is a bit of a pain in the ass on Windows. It…
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Favreau
A Sci-Fi channel rumors wire has an article about the forthcoming Iron Man movie’s potential ties to The Avengers. Hulk was awful, but this one looks okay. What especially caught my eye was Jon Favreau, the director, talking about the ties…. And your girlfriend’s not going to know what you’re so interested in in certain…
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Persuasion
When I present my ideas, my intent is just to provide what I know or think without bias. The information just… is. The good, the bad, and the ugly all need to be in front of the decision maker(s) to have a chance at a quality decision. From my perspective, the information I provide belongs…
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Blackboard Won Suit Against D2L
Blackboard acquired patent ‘138 and brought a lawsuit against Desire2Learn. I would say 80-90% of the commentary about this case has been from anti-Blackboard crowd with about 90% of the rest from the let’s-wait-and-see crowd. Blackboard very much has been mum on the subject. I do not recall a blog of a single Blackboard supporter…
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Near Full Moon
Near Full Moon, originally uploaded by Ezra F. From back on Feb 18th. This was a practice shot for the Lunar Eclipse which I didn’t shoot. I saw clouds rolling in and assumed the shoot was a bust. Turns out it was fairly clear. 🙂
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Everyone Has Gone Private
Almost all the people I know on LJ seem to post 90% of their stuff either Friends Only or custom protected lists. Mine are a mixed bag. My default used to be Friends Only, but I have shifted back to Public. I like my photos to be public. Not sure about much else.
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A Return To Educational Segregation
Huh… A nearby school system plans to segregate sexes.The administrators say the research they have reviewed says boys and girls learn better in different environments: 1) Girls need quiet time. 2) Boys need to express themselves. Probably the Hawthorne Effect will cause scores to increase for the first couple years. 😀 So they will stick…
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Literacy
Before we react to the lower amount of reading, what exactly is the problem we seek to solve? Is the problem declining student reading scores? We need to improve reading comprehension. Students may need to learn how to read more effectively so increasing the quantity may not help that much. Is the problem half of…
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Marbles in the Mouth
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…