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New Toys (01:03) - I have purchased two new toys to keep me entertained for the moment. The first, a Garmin Edge 305 GPS-enabled... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

What Do Others Think of PeopleSoft (22:41) - Case is switching to the PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions to manage student information. I was browsing around Willipedia (Williams College... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

More People Talking about Computer Help Documentation (14:15) - I have mentioned [[Category:Computer Help|computer help documentation]] in my blog before. With a new help documentation site accessible through the... | 0 Trackbacks | 7 Comments

Revisiting Computer Help Documentation (14:44) - I just completed a test drive of the new Help Desk knowledge base on campus. It is powered by RightAnswers... | 1 Trackbacks | 92 Comments

Basic Expectations of Enterprise Software (18:46) - In a few of my previous posts, I vented some steam about my disappointment with so-called "enterprise" software. To prove... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
I Really Hate Blackboard (13:14) - In my never-ending pursuit to provide better services to students and other members of the campus community, I was looking... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
The EECS Department and Horde are Providing What Oracle Can't (01:20) - I have known about Horde for a while now. For those not in the know, Horde is an application framework... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Gotta Love the Editorial Cartoon (00:43) - One thing I am instantly in love with is that The Observer's new website updates with Friday's stories at 12:00... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Surveys Not Requiring Authentication are Meaningless (13:49) - I stumbled upon the Share the Vision Poll today. As always, it is a politcally-charged question. This poll requires no... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

My Opinions About the Case Daily (20:42) - The Case Daily launched today. Judging by the way it is implemented, it looks like the concept emerged today as... | 0 Trackbacks | 17 Comments

We Be Spamming (00:25) - Looks like somebody has been sending spam through the Case mail servers and now the whole campus suffers: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=129.22.105.34... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

My Proposed Solution to Mass E-mails (15:50) - OK, there are two classes of mass e-mails that are sent to the campus: Essential notifications dictating a change in... | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments
SOURCE Web site, Symposium, and Summer Funding (10:27) - The following e-mail was sent yesterday: To: Case Students, Faculty, and Staff, At last! SOURCE (Support of Undergraduate Research &... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments