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Writer's Block: Infamous
January 28, 1986
At school, a teacher knocked on the door. Our teacher went to find out what was wrong. We were told to go into another room and sit on the floor. About half the kids on the hall were packed into one of the two rooms with a TV. The talking heads were in the middle of reviewing what had happened and the latest updates.
Me and another ( Read more... ) -
Merge Historically Black Colleges With White?
Retention is one of those numbers higher education leaders tend to review to determine how effectively the faculty reaches the students. Historically black colleges and universities were created because students found it difficult both to get into "neutral" colleges and graduate from them. That latter part sounds like they were created in part to ( Read more... ) -
reCAPTCHA and Chrome
Was using this RSVP form with Google Chrome and found the reCAPTCHA was telling me I repeatedly failed the Turing test. After the sixth time, I decided it might be my browser, so I tried it in Firefox which worked fine.
Curious, I went looking for a possible problem between reCAPTCHA and Chrome. According to a post there, the Transitional XHTML ( Read more... ) -
Thankful
- Family, especially gaining a new member in a few weeks
- My dart team members and their significant others
- Friends
- Having a job, especially my team at work
- No health issues this year
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Filler
It drives me nuts to listen to 24-hour network news cover an important event such as the Mumbai attacks earlier. Give me facts. I got better information off the Twitter search for Mumbai than 30 minutes of CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC. -
In Need of a Sedative
Have not slept well the past week... I have been the on call DBA. So I have the pager. Monday we joked things seem to be worse when I have it. Well... this week has been a shining example.
Monday: OVIEW had issues starting at 5:15-ish. I had seen that behavior before and applied the previous fix. The monitoring showed a half dozen recoveries. So I ( Read more... ) -
Armed
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Devon Gundry - "Armed" from Justin Baldoni on Vimeo.
First heard Devon at the Tennessee Baha'i School back in 2007. I bought his CD. It gets a spin when I need to contemplate. This one like so much of his music makes use of a small part of Baha'u'llah's Writings. In this case from a prayer for protection....
Armed with the power of Thy name ( Read more... )
