Posts from — September 2003

A Daily Chronicle of the Bush Administration Distortion. From the fine folks at MoveOn.org, we have Misleader.org, A Daily Chronicle of the Bush Administration Distortion. In addition to the Bush lies, you also get the research behind the discovery of the lie. Click on the image of our… [Eat Your Vegetables]

Oi! *Nix admin, get patching. Sendmail, openSSH and DB2 vulns [The Register]

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i patched my systems the last two days…. and people wonder what i do sometimes:) fixing prollems before they start i suppose.

Verisign: ICANN Raised No Objections. Hiawatha Bray quotes a Verisign spokesperson in the Boston Globe: “VeriSign began work on the system a year ago, spokesman Tom Galvin said. “We began to think of a service that would help improve Web navigation,” he said. Galvin said VeriSign informed a major Internet regulatory body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), of the Site Finder plan. He said ICANN president Paul Twomey raised no objections. [Lextext]

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This brings in to question, at least for me, what Paul Twomey and really many others imagine the internet and the communities that operate on it to be, do they really think that this is something that would not be an issue for important constituencies there? or do they imagine it as a 90% won't care and the rest are just troublemakers or what?

Colleges Caught in a Vise. If there is a crisis in college costs, it is not due to by price-gouging by universities, as House Republicans John Boehner and Howard McKeon contend. By Stanley Fish. [New York Times: Opinion] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Sun Blade 1500. LOL. Poor Solaris users. [Hack the Planet]

New guestblogger: Jason of textfiles.com! [bOing bOing]

Yesterday, they informed Tim Luke and myself that our paper for the Australian egovernance conference was accepted, it looks like i'll be in Melbourne in the spring, their fall, april though.

well this is probably a beta, i gave tim a 3 page preproposal a while back and now i just gave him a 10 page draft minus the annotated bibliography. once i get this back with comments, i'll redraft it, attach the annotated bib and go another round then, give it to the full committee. the guidelines for the proposal are here. no more than 15 pages, mine should be around that with the bibliography

http://headspacej.tripod.com/blog.html
What's interesting is that I expect to be treated like a customer. I want immediate, friendly service and learning on my own terms. I expect the administration of my program to be like managing my personal account at Amazon, with instant feedback and the ability to get exactly (and only) what I want. Education has never been set up that way, but the demand for good, flexible service will continue to increase. I'm feeling locked-in now, but if I found out that UBC or another university offered a similar program at a similar price with better service, I'd certainly advise people to check it out. Is this commoditization of learning a bad thing, or will it force old institutions to improve the quality of the experience for students?
[Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology]

Free UVa. When it comes to diversity, the University of Virginia is one of the more politically correct–and hence procedurally fraught–campuses in… [Critical Mass]