Author: Ezra S F


  • I fit the criteria of obese. My weight is not an obsession. I lost a good 20 pounds in a few months by making sure to walk 1.5-2 miles 4-5 times a week and not eating many calories. Thing is…. I am lazy. So I put that weight right back on after not maintaining the…

  • A Soliloquy Remake

    True? To update or not to update, that is the question; Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The freezes and crashes of sloppy code, Or to take arms against a sea of developers, And by opposing, end them. I know… It’s bad…

  • My Cold, Cold Heart Chills to the Bone, originally uploaded by Ezra F. I find the office overly warm. I wear short sleeves inside and a coat outside in Winter. Amy, pictured here, obviously disagrees… Sweater and USB heated mittens inside… http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=0356

  • Ran across a video describing how to get the WebDAV info in CE6 (aka Blackboard Vista 4 Lite) for the purpose of using CE6 as a network drive. The narrator says this is a good idea because if the site has good policies, then backups are being made. In the event of a site disaster,…

  • Mmmmm Tasty!, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Misty licking her nose. It’s been a while since I posted a picture. Here is one from January I have yet to upload. 😀

  • Blackboard support wants a backup of a section to replicate the instructor claimed behavior. Fine. I started making the backup, but I ended up closing the browser to go home. This morning, when I checked, the backup was not in the Vista file manager at the course level where I created it. So, I created…

  • Happy New Year!

    It’s the Chinese Year of the Brown Earth Rat!

  • All Good Things

    A good one… It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. – Rene Descartes From Michelle so she can be quoted… If you don’t feel and don’t want…

  • Clusters can making finding where a user was working a clusterf***. Users end up on a node, but they don’t know which node. Heck, we are ahead of the curve to get user name, date, and time. Usually checking all the nodes in the past few days can net you the sessions. Capturing the session…