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Brock University has created a comparison document of all Learning Management Systems (LMSs – like WebCT) that are available for use in higher education. This document was created by a committee (OK, 99% me) in response to the recent merger of Blackboard and WebCT, and the recent growth of projects like Sakai. This document has… Continue Reading WebCT, Angel, D2L, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle comparison

Windows Vista is the next version of the Windows operating system. Someone took the audio from a recent product demo and added screen shots of Apple’s OSX doing the exact same thing. Vista will come out a about a year from now, OSX Tiger came out about a year ago. (One company is a huge… Continue Reading Windows Vista, Out now

On Rogers? Using their Cable Modem to connect to the internet? Did your Bit Torrent traffic suddenly die? Rogers Cable is no longer a good service for downloading files from the internet. This is because Rogers has blocked/restricted/lowered the priority of Bit Torrent transfers in the last week or so, as a welcome home for… Continue Reading Rogers High Speed Internet now Low Speed, because of Rogers

We launched the University Teaching Podcast last week at work. As with many podcasts, production qualities are low, and they have this silly kid doing the intros, but we hope to grow on all fronts over time. On another podcastsing note, the CBC is conducting a survey on Podcasts. It took me 10 minutes and… Continue Reading Podcasts

Here’s an Acura 1.7 EL that’s a lot like mine but with rims, wind guards and skirtting. I like the skirts and think it might be a nice addition to my EL, but I think the funniest part is this web page, created to sell the rims for this dressed up EL, is hosted at… Continue Reading Dressed up Acrua from a dress down