Author: Ezra S F


  • Mmmmm Tasty!, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Misty licking her nose. It’s been a while since I posted a picture. Here is one from January I have yet to upload. 😀

  • Blackboard support wants a backup of a section to replicate the instructor claimed behavior. Fine. I started making the backup, but I ended up closing the browser to go home. This morning, when I checked, the backup was not in the Vista file manager at the course level where I created it. So, I created…

  • Happy New Year!

    It’s the Chinese Year of the Brown Earth Rat!

  • All Good Things

    A good one… It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. – Rene Descartes From Michelle so she can be quoted… If you don’t feel and don’t want…

  • Clusters can making finding where a user was working a clusterf***. Users end up on a node, but they don’t know which node. Heck, we are ahead of the curve to get user name, date, and time. Usually checking all the nodes in the past few days can net you the sessions. Capturing the session…

  • Blackboard Vista tracks student activity. This tracking data is viewed as a critical feature of Vista. Our instructors depended on the information until we revoked their ability to run reports themselves due to performance issues. Campus administrators can still generate reports (though some still fail). We doubt the solution to this is Blackboard improving the…

  • My employer does not pay for my cell phone or Internet service. When new administrators interview or schedule time a forum to talk to us, the question of them paying for one or both services usually is asked. Usually the response is something about it being complicated with a ton of paper work and an…

  • Elementary!

    Is it the poll that is revealing or the pollsters or asking people who watch a ton of TV: “58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Holmes actually existed“?

  • So, the perfect set up for killing a bunch of their fans would be an amazing play with seconds left to go. Manning hit a touchdown with 35 seconds left on the clock. Probably a hundred people are on their way to hospitals. Should the team be held responsible? From “Super bowl could be hazardous…