Fall 2008 End of First Week Status

ART 115 (Art History II)- Everything seems to be OK. We are doing an introduction assignment at the moment, I have to pick an artist that has a K at the beginning of their last name to discuss, and I’m still working on that. This evening our syllabus was recalled (to be reissued Monday), because […]

My Day (Synopsis): August 20, 2008

Woke up Had enjoyable time in sculpture I think I will enjoy my new sculpture/ceramics instructor I came home Went hiking at Crowders Mountain Reached Pinnacle Returned Exhausted Sleep

What contract?

In the last few days I’ve been working with an individual at my old high school on some problems related to the DNS of the schools domain name. Today one of the emails included the following line: "I know this goes beyond the scope of your contract with us, so I just wanted to let […]

WTF?

A:\CSC153\PROJECTS>dir Volume in drive A is DATA Volume Serial Number is DCA1-B951 Directory of A:\CSC153\PROJECTS 08/19/2008 23:39 <DIR> . 08/19/2008 23:39 <DIR> .. 08/19/2008 23:39 <DIR> HelloWorld 08/19/2008 22:58 <DIR> InvoiceTotal 08/19/2008 22:58 <DIR> VSMacros80 08/19/2008 22:58 <DIR> WindowsFormsApplication1 0 File(s) 0 bytes 6 Dir(s) 67,751,673,856 bytes free A:\CSC153\PROJECTS>cd HelloWorld Invalid directory A:\CSC153\PROJECTS>cd HelloWorld Invalid […]

Nothing worse than foreign porn

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPAT84665620080818 There is a new pay television station for Canada. It features pornographic films, documentaries and game shows, featuring at least 50% Canadian porn. Apparently there is significant interest in getting "local" porn. I personally find that the Germans have the best porn. It somehow comes across raw and natural, the way porn is supposed […]

Doc as a web-content format

I love Microsoft Office as much as anyone, but there are limits to its capabilities. Occasionally I end up with an instructor (usually one that isn’t very PC friendly) who decides that Doc is the best possible format to share content with students. I personally can’t stand Word when I have a browser open (exception […]

Hardest part of every semester

Every semester there is a moment I both look forward to and dread, its the moment I have the full assignment list. While it is nice to know the way things will line up, it is such a pain getting everything into GITI. I have for many years considered writing a bulk assignment addition script […]

Overwhelming Syllabi

I currently have two courses open and active, but already I feel like I am a little overwhelmed by the syllabi and the course information stuff. I don’t know quite where to begin with stuff. I suspect it might be my tiredness, but I really want to get started with the courses, but feel too […]

CPCC Courses Open

CPCC Online courses are now open. It seems I have one in Blackboard and one in Moodle… No consistency across platforms this semester (especially since I have one course at Gaston on WIKI!)

Status

I have the status page almost finished, but still not quite right. I am to the point where I am comfortable with it technically, but no where near comfortable with it socially. I don’t know what it should "be". I want it to be a starting place for my personal website. I always feel like […]