Thesis Death March #1: Rough Drafts

I suspect there will be more of these in the next few months.

The purpose for the long trip home this winter was to have quiet time for writing away from Kent. This has been achieved so far with mixed results.

I’m in the USA for two more weeks; I want to leave here with complete drafts of . . . → Read More: Thesis Death March #1: Rough Drafts

Moodle: questions and comments from The World

Over the past month or two, I’ve received a number of comments on an article I wrote here titled Considering the Alternative. The article was written because I was asked to give my opinion on course management systems for a project we were considering to do internal to the University. With permission, I had written my . . . → Read More: Moodle: questions and comments from The World

The state of the network

In the plains of northern Ohio, I am reduced to network poverty.

However impoverished the connection may be, the local network is nutty:

My parent’s iMac is connected to the outside world via 56K dialup. Carrie’s iBook is wired via ethernet to a little hub, and sharing the iMac’s connection to the outside world. We then turned . . . → Read More: The state of the network

I still do not understand

Pictures like the one at right have recently made the rounds of the net; apparently, an AP reporter dug them up via a filesharing client or some similar mechanism. I’m not so interested in the story of where the photos came from, per se, but I am interested in how people respond to these pictures, and . . . → Read More: I still do not understand