Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Separate Populations?

    December 9, 2008
    Internet

    What are my neighbors doing? Curiosity about that question resulted in some conflicting data. Ordered by when I added the RSS feed for them. search.twitter.com for “Athens GA”  – results are full of people talking about Athens, GA not in Athens, GA. Useful for people coming into town for an event. TweetLocal search for “Athens, GA”…

  • Access to Multiple Systems

    December 8, 2008
    Blackboard Vista

    For the term starting Jan 7, we have students who need to be directed to the new Vista system (v8). By standard practice, students also have access to the previous term a few weeks into the new term, let’s say Feb 23. So we’ll need to ensure some access to the old Vista system (v3).…

  • Sunset

    December 7, 2008
    Uncategorized

    Sunset That isn’t a lake at the bottom. Instead, it is the roof of my car.

  • Writer’s Block: Infamous

    December 7, 2008
    About Me, from LiveJournal

    January 28, 1986 At school, a teacher knocked on the door. Our teacher went to find out what was wrong. We were told to go into another room and sit on the floor. About half the kids on the hall were packed into one of the two rooms with a TV. The talking heads were…

  • Merge Historically Black Colleges With White?

    December 6, 2008
    Gov’t / Law / Politics, University

    Retention is one of those numbers higher education leaders tend to review to determine how effectively the faculty reaches the students. Historically black colleges and universities were created because students found it difficult both to get into “neutral” colleges and graduate from them. That latter part sounds like they were created in part to solve…

  • Open Source Is Not Broken

    December 3, 2008
    Computers, Corporations

    Cohen says: Open-source code is generally great code, not requiring much support. So open-source companies that rely on support and service alone are not long for this world. The traditional open-source business model that relies solely on support and service revenue streams is failing to meet the expectations of investors. The whole point is to…

  • Virtual Doctoral Graduate Student

    December 2, 2008
    Books / Novels / Writing, Movies / Films / TV

    People think I am smart because I read hard stuff. Okay, maybe it takes a special breed to read a book by academics on applying game theory to every day life. I read hard stuff because the easy stuff doesn’t take my mind off things. Today, two people asked me if I am a doctoral student.…

  • reCAPTCHA and Chrome

    November 28, 2008
    Internet

    Was using this RSVP form with Google Chrome and found the reCAPTCHA was telling me I repeatedly failed the Turing test. After the sixth time, I decided it might be my browser, so I tried it in Firefox which worked fine. Curious, I went looking for a possible problem between reCAPTCHA and Chrome. According to…

  • reCAPTCHA and Chrome

    November 28, 2008
    Internet

    Was using this RSVP form with Google Chrome and found the reCAPTCHA was telling me I repeatedly failed the Turing test. After the sixth time, I decided it might be my browser, so I tried it in Firefox which worked fine. Curious, I went looking for a possible problem between reCAPTCHA and Chrome. According to…

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