Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Rhetoric

    August 3, 2008
    About Me

    When you think of “rhetoric”, do you think of… using language effectively to please or persuade or loud and confused and empty talk When I originally went with rhetoric in the blog name years ago, I was thinking with the latter to fall in with the already loud ones. Somewhere along the journey, I switched…

  • What does a CIO do?

    August 3, 2008
    University

    I guess it depends on who you ask. Well, the CIO’s thought they were most effective as classic IT-support providers. That’s basically putting PC’s on desktops. But their managers thought that CIO’s were most effective in explaining and determining the college’s technology course into the future. Managers really want their CIO’s to be “informaticists.” Wayne…

  • Off the Twitter Timeline: Clunky WebCT

    July 29, 2008
    Blackboard Vista, Social / IM / Chat

    Summize provides a great way to troll for what people are saying. Beyond just searching for a term, it provides RSS feeds for terms. I follow several, such Blackboard and WebCT. The WebCT one netted me the following tweet: annoyed with how clunky webct can be at times – it had to have been designed…

  • IMS Data Going to Wrong Place

    July 29, 2008
    Blackboard Vista

    I should know better than to trust documentation over my own intuition. Or to change based on what others tell me. I followed: Log in to Vista Enterprise as a Server Administrator or Institution Administrator. NOTE: To set glcid, you must log in as a Server Administrator. From the Administration tab, click the Utilities tab.…

  • RSS Is Relatively New?

    July 29, 2008
    Internet, Work

    The email was an innocuous “Ooh, shiney!” message. RSS feeds are now available for a status site. However, one thing concerned me…. RSS is a relatively new and easy way to distribute content and information via the Internet. I personally have been aware of RSS since 2002. However, as I am a relatively late adopter…

  • IMS Import Error When Node Is Down

    July 28, 2008
    Blackboard Vista, Unix / Comp Languages, Work

    This is what I got when a node was down while I attempted to do an IMS import in Blackboard CE/Vista. Failed to upload files, exiting. Cause could include invalid permission on file/directory, invalid file/directory or repository related problems The keywords permission, file, and directory in this would have sent me anywhere but to the…

  • Dancing with the universe

    July 27, 2008
    Uncategorized

  • Praan

    July 27, 2008
    Music / Audio

    Have Praan repeating over-n-over in my head…

  • Dancing with the Universe

    July 27, 2008
    from LiveJournal, Movies / Films / TV

    Look out for Atlanta just after Amsterdam @ 3:23.

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