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Comment on NRA Poll by oldfolkie

oldfolkie — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:17:27 +0000

I was called with such an NRA poll this afternoon. When I told the woman that I was staunchly pro-gun control and my wife, an ex-member of the NRA, was totally disgusted by the positions and tactics of the NRA, I was then informed that I wasn’t going to actually take the poll, but rather listen to a tape describing the U.N.’s attempt to ban guns in the United States. I then went into a bit of a rant. A huge rant, actually. I realize that the pollster/propaganeer was most likely just some kid trying to earn her college tuition or get enough money to pay for some minimal health insurance. But, if you call me on a Saturday afternoon and try to feed me bullshit, you’d better be ready to have the plate thrown back in your face.

Comment on Strobist Meetup by All about camera flash | Digital Photography

All about camera flash | Digital Photography — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:31:10 +0000

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Comment on Better CE/Vista Web Server Log by Useful User Agents | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Useful User Agents | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:36:30 +0000

[...] Followers of this blog may recall I changed the Weblogic config.xml to record user agents to the webserver.log. [...]

Comment on Coradiant TrueSight by Vaughn Balter

Vaughn Balter — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:23:51 +0000

I get the Jeff Goldblum thing constantly……ever since The Fly was released. Blackboard/WebCT/Angel users beware, Jeff Goldblum just may make an appearance soon.

Comment on TED Talks: Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library by ITE 130 » Blog Archive » Free Library

ITE 130 » Blog Archive » Free Library — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:52:26 +0000

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Comment on Quotes to Make You Think by Ez

Ez — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:21:39 +0000

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”-Henry C. Link

Comment on Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk by Strobist Meetup | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Strobist Meetup | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:17:14 +0000

[...] in July I mentioned Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk. A number of people from the Athens Flickr Meetups group showed for the August walk at the State [...]

Comment on Mozilla Prism Self-Signed SSL Issue by Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:38:40 +0000

On Ubuntu I solved this problem by creating a symbolic link to the cert_overide.txt file in the firefox default profile directory from the prism default profile directory.

$cd /home/user/.prism/something.default
$ln -s /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/something.default/cert_overide.txt

Comment on Quotes to Make You Think by christine

christine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:24:25 +0000

I hate you before I like you. ~Unknown

Comment on Healthcare by Ez

Ez — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:57:26 +0000

Here is a way to spin 37th place. The United States has better heath care than 151 other countries according to the WHO report.

Comment on LMS in a Pandemic by ez

ez — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:57:38 +0000

Good notes on this topic: http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=48

Comment on The LMS is So Web 1.5 by Ez

Ez — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:55:38 +0000

There may be some cross-ocean confusion in terms. VLE is the favored acronym in the UK while LMS is favored here in the US. Part of this may lie in the UK favored meaning of LMS to refer to a library system. Similarly, we used to call WebCT a CMS for Course Management System until too many confused it with CMS for Content Management System.

I think of VLE and LMS as being roughly equivalent.

Comment on The LMS is So Web 1.5 by David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:20:09 +0000

Thank you for putting into words what I’ve been struggling with for some time. I knew BB9 wasn’t (and shouldn’t claim to be) a Web 2.0 system / tool / VLE / LMS / PLN / etc, but hadn’t thought any more about it.

Big question; do you consider BB an LMS or VLE .. and is there a difference?

David.

Comment on Cognitive Load by Ez

Ez — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:03:30 +0000

Newsweek has an okay article on lying. http://www.newsweek.com/id/213575/

Comment on TED Talks: Social Bacteria by Lorenia

Lorenia — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:36:26 +0000

I like this post. You’re so thorough – love the related links. haha

But yeah, it kind of drives me crazy when I see people using antibacterial hand sanitizer. Just go wash your hands with some soap, yo.

Comment on Weblogic Diagnostics by Ez

Ez — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:41:36 +0000

Found a node with 4 of these files. Stopped the node, renamed the files to have .old at the end, and started up the node. It started fine so I’ve deleted the files. #1 and #3 confirmed.

#2 sorta confirmedOnly thing checked in the JDBC Diagnostics is “Profile Connection Leak”:

Connection Leak (PROFILE_TYPE_CONN_LEAK_STR)

Enable connection leak profiling to collect information about threads that have reserved a connection from the data source and the connection leaked (was not properly returned to the pool of connections). This profile information can help determine which applications are not properly closing JDBC connections. The record contains the following information:

PoolName – name of the data source to which this connection belongs

ID – connection ID

User – stack trace of the thread waiting for the connection

Timestamp – time stamp showing when the connection leak was detected

Source: Monitoring WebLogic JDBC Resources

Comment on DDoS of Social Media by Ez

Ez — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:37:35 +0000

Now the Russia / Georgia connection is a conspiracy theory?

Comment on Stalking Students by Amy Edwards

Amy Edwards — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:03:16 +0000

I think Ben Franklin said it best. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Comment on Movies A-Z by Adrianne

Adrianne — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:29:39 +0000

thanks for the link ezra

Comment on The LMS is So Web 1.5 by Blackboard (and other closed LMS systems) make university a rip-off | andremalan.net

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:35:30 +0000

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