Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Time Stamps

    January 7, 2009
    Blackboard Vista

    Blackboard Vista uses epoch time stamps quite extensively. These are calculated down to the millisecond. So if you want to use something like Epoch Converter, remove the last three numbers (the milliseconds).

  • Course Management Systems are Dead!

    January 6, 2009
    Blackboard Vista

    Heh. Blackboard Vista is headed for a brick wall? Who knew? 7. Course Management Systems are Dead! Long Live Course Management Systems! Proprietary course management systems are heading for a brick wall. The combination of economic pressures combined with saturated markets and the maturing stage of the life cycle of these once innovative platforms means…

  • Resolutions For 2009

    January 2, 2009
    Books / Novels / Writing, Food, Goal Progress, Personal / Relationships

    Read 10,000 pages of science, economics, health, history, or policy books. For 2008, it was read 25 books. This year, I thought to change it page-based as the previous one shied me away from larger books. Two 350 page books vs one 700 page book shouldn’t be a concern. See Reading for last and this years’…

  • Christmas Vacay

    January 1, 2009
    Uncategorized

    We ate a good meal Christmas Day. I neglected to get any pictures I guess. On Boxing Day, we decided to go to the beach. So Saturday we drove down to Jekyll Island. Shrimper Embeached at the southeast tip of the island. The 2005 version. Gnarley Shadow Jekyll Island Club Hotel where we ate a…

  • Reading 2008

    December 31, 2008
    Books / Novels / Writing, Goal Progress

    2008 Goal to read 25 books. How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman – 04-JAN-2008 – A look at how doctors make mistakes. Patients should take on a more participatory role by asking the right questions and challenging doctors to be more confidence. Finished Jan 2008 What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect - Dr. James R. Flynn…

  • Christmas Blog Post 2008

    December 25, 2008
    Personal / Relationships, Photography

    Last night I read Uncle Bill’s Christmas letter. He mailed it, but he apparently doesn’t have my postal address so I got the electronic version. Woohoo! His letter recaps the year for his family. Do any of you have such a tradition? Or a family member who does? Oddly my blog doesn’t provide much basis…

  • William and Nicole Got Married

    December 21, 2008
    Uncategorized

    For once… I forgot my camera… WTH? Lined Up Practice at Sunset

  • Brainwashed

    December 16, 2008
    Computers, Psychology

    People do weird things. Often these are due to the operant conditioning or classical conditioning inflicted on them. Its funny I’ve been seeing references lately to these to describe…. Email – Like Skinner’s pigeons, we hit the button to check for new messages hoping to get something. The intermittent reinforcement of not getting a new…

  • Division Issue in YAPB

    December 15, 2008
    Blog Software

    Problem PHP in Yet Another Photoblog causes “Warning: Division by zero in exifReader.inc on line 859” (the problem line is in bold):   case TAG_SHUTTERSPEED:   // More complicated way of expressing exposure time, so only use   // this value if we don’t already have it from somewhere else.   if ($this->ImageInfo[TAG_EXPOSURETIME] == 0){     $sp = $this->ConvertAnyFormat($ValuePtr, $Format);   …

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