too many topics,

    too little time.

Friendster sucks. Firing an employee for blogging without a discussion, warning or an official policy is lame and a sign of a… [kasia in a nutshell]

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everyone knows it sux, it always has sucked, nothing new there. bad implimentation of an ok idea by remarkably bad management.

so i canceled my friendster account. i don't need them. i suggest that you cancel your friendster account too. or you quit friendster, or you stop using friendster, that you leave friendster, or do anything else to undermine friendster, that is permissible in your jurisdiction.

it's all good… close the tag. move on.

well, i'm not, or maybe i am, but i show up on google as an e-learning guru, or so the referrer logs say. i guess i have almost 7 years in e-learning, working on everything from teaching online classes to developing elearning systems…. now, i just have to write more.

Office Cam is Back!. My office cam is back up. It is a live java applet. I'll try to get it going otherwise, for the non-java soon.

Just the picture is here, and I'll add an autoupdating file soon.

Last picture. [Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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jason broke it.

yes, but all good things come to an end.

it is a strange, strange, strange world outside of this ivory tower. the hopes and dreams of americas youth seem to be to make money, lots of money, but they don't seem to realize how that works, so they have dreams, of being lawyers, being doctors, being pimps, pushers, and else…. not sure many of them will live a life beyond desparation.

ummm, seems to me that even if they are allowed to do this, they would just know better.

hmm. I think i've posted this before, but this blog does not support users of internet explorer. it is the firm belief of me, that internet explorer is very dangerous to use on the web and is one of the great perpetrators of worms, which spread through information monocultures. I don't support it. I designed this blog to be w3c css2 compliant with one or two tags for css3, if browsers ever get fancy. so, if you want to use ie, use it at your own risk, rely on the fact that most people design for it, and that few of these people have bad intentions. now some people think it seems to work on ie, that is not my intention, it is an accident of the fact that these people are probably using os x and ie 5.2 . but it doesn't look perfect there anyway, but it does sort of work.

so, let me encourage you to choose a new browser, one that several national and international security agencies/consultants have not put on a threat index. you can download most browsers from versiontracker.

the embodiment of a classic character is leaving the public eye. may he live his days happy and fulfilled.

they are an interesting read..

bea arthur, 81, of golden girls fame has a run in with tsa…..

Virtual Cubicles. Being on instant messenger all day is like being in a virtual cubicle. [Anyway]

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eep……. i don't like being even metaphorically in a cubicle.

A Real College Football Scandal (Elsewhere!). I hope exposure of this practice causes its elimination. I am happy to report that I queried a UM sports administrator if UM ever gave academic college credit for sports and received a pithy emailed reply: “No way, no how!”… [Discourse.net]

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i'm not surprised at this, and i actually think that for the time and effort the students deserve something, but i don't think it should be a-f grades, credit is fine, but maybe pass/fail.

The Technological Juggernaut: “[L]aw and technology are substitute methods of protecting an interest. You can sue a trespasser; but it may be cheaper just to put up a strong fence. We used to think that if the technological substitute was adequate, it would be superior to the legal [...] The dizzying advances of modern technology have destroyed these assumptions.” [Lessig Blog] [Universal Rule]

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law, and the modern legal system with everything that implies is a technology, a socio-economic mechanism, as much as the factory is, or as much as schools are. they all are technical and technological institutions, and we have to be careful when we talk about them otherwise or contrast them with things which are categorically similar.

Gender Relations in Educational Applications of Technology. A not quite new, but interesting collection of material on gender, education and technology from a group of students: GREAT: Gender Relations in Educational Applications of Technology Welcome to our special issue of GREAT, a publication on Gender Relations in… [GENDER & COMPUTING]

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some people might find these resources useful….