Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • User Interface v. SQL Reports and Tracking

    February 6, 2008
    Blackboard Vista, Database / Oracle

    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…

  • Tweets for Today

    February 5, 2008
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    11:34 Worst thing about APIs is we simply don't know (and can't image) how exposed user's private information can be. tinyurl.com/yux5of # 22:02 Sushi good. Company good. Hostess annoying waitress priceless. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • Who Is Benefiting From This?

    February 5, 2008
    Work

    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…

  • Tweets for Today

    February 4, 2008
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    08:44 Is Adobe AIR vaporware? # 21:54 OMG… What an ugly play… Escaped a sack… Lobbed downfield… Tyrese used his helmet as a second hand. # 22:06 Pandamonium to get thousands back on the side lines. Why do they have to run this one last play? # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Read and post comments…

  • Elementary!

    February 4, 2008
    Humor / Weird

    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“?

  • NY Giants Guilty of Murder?

    February 3, 2008
    from LiveJournal, Sports

    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…

  • Students Should Start Protesting Now

    February 3, 2008
    Gov’t / Law / Politics, The World, University

    Obviously students have the Zimbabwe government running scared. They have ordered the schools not to re-open in two weeks and only re-open in two months after elections. There has been demonstrations in the past over rigged elections. So… Rather than go to every effort to make sure the elections appear legitimate, the approach is to…

  • Tricky Quotes

    February 3, 2008
    Quotes

    Archilochus (Greek lyric poet and soldier, 675-635bc) The fox has many tricks, and the hedgehog only one, but that is the best of all. Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ray Bradbury We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is,…

  • Tweets for Today

    February 3, 2008
    Uncategorized

    13:00 Need to read up on the candidates so I can vote well Super Tuesday… # 20:42 @hijinksensue You could tell the strangers their behavior is going to be the subject of your next comic. 🙂 # 23:07 Burned ma tongue on hot coffee. More coherent typed than spoken. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Read…

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