Just some notes looking at Apache Governance. No meaning here – just notes.
Playing With uPortal Notes
Just some notes trying to get uPortal and Sakai into the same Tomcat.
Tuning Virtual PC on My Mac
Notes on tuning Virtual PC on the Mac.
JSR-168 Portlet Week
This was a fun week. I went to UIUC on Monday, IU Tuesday – Thursday, and back to UIUC on Friday. I kind of took the week “off” from Sakai duties – I spent most of the days without mail or IM even open. I had this desired to write a JSR-168 portlet that was similar to my Visual Basic Sakai Desktop.
Chuck’s Video Process
This is as much for my own record of my process so I can refer back to it from time to time. This includes the steps that I use to capture, edit and post-process my videos. This is somewhat a tortuous process because things just don’t work perfectly well – especically between PC and Mac.
IMS Tool Interoperability Demo
In the rush to Sakai 2.0, two Sakai developers quietly laboured along with the world on their shoulders – Anthony Whyte and Lydia Li. A week after the cathartic Sakai 2.0 release, the eyes of the Learning Management world and the Sakai Project would be on Sheffield, UK watching to see which systems and applications would *really* interoperate at the IMS Tool Interoperability Demonstration.
Refelctions on the Sakai Meeting in Baltimore
What a wonderful meeting. We had 400 people – there are about 10 sites intending to bring up a significant pilot in September. I have a feeling that helping these people will be a major effort for us over the summer – perhaps more important than any development that we might do.
You Might Be A Redneck…
You might be a redneck if your son’s ATV is worth more than your car.
The Dr-chuck-mobile is a 1998 Olds Eighty Eight with 186000 miles on it and still running strong. Brent now has a Predator 90 that is worth more than Dad’s car.
One of the best indications of redneckness.
Witty Sayings
Those who strive to have it both ways end up with neither.
The Value Proposition of a Real CD that was Purchased
This week my son has been taking some special iniative in his homework. So to reward him, we went to Best Buy to get a CD. He looked for about 20 minutes and found what he considered a “hard to find” Slipknot CD. Lots of swearing and loud music – loud angry metal noise.
As we left the store and were driving off to dinner, we were listening to the music (ignoring the swear words of course), he began to discuss how cool this particular CD was.
At some point he began talking about how cool it was to have the “real” CD for this particular album and how he would be the envy of his peer group – they all had hacked, downloaded, CDs that they had burned, and here he was showing up with the real thing. As you can imagine, having a real CD is a bit unique amongst 13-year olds who have strong desire for music but not a lot of cash.
If you look at him and his peer group, they posess all kinds of genuine articles from the bands they follow – wristbands, t-shirts, and hats must have the official logo – they all look like a bunch of goth-want-to-be clones – it is cute in a way how they try to be non-conformists but end up looking like one non-conformist who was cloned many times.
But the fact that these brands are so strong to that age group makes the $14.00 CD have a value proposition of nothing more than the cover art and the knowledge that they have the “genuine article”.
It seemed interesting to me at least. For a bit, I thought “how illogical” – but then I asked myself if I would purchase an off-brand video camera that allegedly was built by Sony – or pay twice as much for the genuine article with the cute “Sony” on the side. Uh – having the Sony on the side is a mark that I am proud of – people see my “Sony” camera and know that I am a “Playa” (at least when it comes to cameras).