‘Cause, after all, what’s more satisfying? Sleep or online flame wars?
Wait, don’t answer that!
More great insights from xkcd: How It Works (Gender and Math)
Trebuchet (or Auto-Targeting Lasers)
Real Programmers Use. . . .
Okay, now that marking is complete for last term, I’m working away on preps for this term. There’s yet another course I’m teaching that I haven’t had a WebCT component for previously (Western Civilization, French Revolution to Present), so I’m spending lots of time and energy getting that organized: setting up the Help Area, creating […]
Second, almost gigantic class, is completed. Now I just have the exams and final calculations to deal with the senior seminar.
Let me just say that Excel’s automation of grade calculations is one of the best things ever. I ♥ my gradebook formulas!
‘Cause nothing says it better than xkcd:
Standards for Success
Something hijacked my email signature yesterday in the University’s Groupwise system. It changed my signature text to a spam message and toggled the signature to always be on (which is why I noticed after sending out only three emails today because “WTF, why am I not being prompted to say Y/N to signature?” made me […]
I do not live in China. I live in Canada. Your own geolocation software knows that!
Please to stop with the serving me up search results and blogger headers in a Chinese script. It makes me nervous that you’re going to start censoring my results. Please to stop with the starting me at a map of […]
This year I’ll be one of the lucky few judging the 2007 History Blogging Awards. Recognizing the best history writing in the blogosphere, you may nominate in the following categories:
Best Group Blog
Best Individual Blog
Best New Blog
Best Post
Best Series of Posts
Best Writer
Finding myself deep in a sense of déjà vu as I produced a draft document for some university duties?
Or finding an electronic file carefully preserved from seven years ago (the last time I carried out this particular duty and had somehow preserved the same through four different computers) and realizing that it could be revised […]
Thanks ever so much for the brand new battery that came by Purolator today. It works like a charm which is especially great since, over the last few days, the old battery went from ailing to dead as a doornail.
Rest assured that on Monday I will box up its corpse in the shipping container you […]
No DRM
Inexpensive monthly subscriptions
Lots of obscure folk bands like Steeleye Span and Planxty that I want to upgrade from vinyl and cassette
And now they have audiobooks!