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How’d I miss this? www.campustechnology.com/articles/60271/. Maybe it’s just as well that I didn’t post this around April 1st.

Credit to Giulia for spotting it.

There were 10 total issues raised in the reexamination request covering all 44 of the claims in the Blackboard patent. The process isn’t over, and the patent is technically still valid, but it is very unlikely that it’ll cover much at all when it’s all over. As I’ve always said, Blackboard might have invented some things, but not everything to do with on-line learning.

My favourite quote (as it often does) come from Eben Moglen “… the education community should be pleased to hear that Blackboard has now been deprived of the opportunity to commit more ‘thuggery'”.

Not much news from my visit to the fracture clinic today. My left collar bone is healing in miss-union, which is no surprise give then X-Ray from a month ago. This will mean that I’ll have a lumpy-left-shoulder for the rest of my life, but worse things could happen.

I suppose the news is that I can start loosing the sling and can “let my pain be my guide” on that one. I aim to avoid it as much as possible, but just in the last hour without it my muscles have started to remind me that they haven’t seen much action lately.

No X-Rays to share this time because they did everything within the hospitals system, but if you can imagine a one inner-half onto of the out-half situation you’ll get the picture.

It appears Bush forgot to turn a light off in the Oval Office.

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I was prompted to update Firefox the other day and did the restart today — a dozen crashes later my advice is to not update to Firefox 2.0.0.13. It’s worse then Safari when working on a site with a lot of Java Applets. If you already have downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.13 my advice is to jump to Firefox 3 or switch to Firefox Campus Edition.

I’ve been using Firefox 3 beta 4 (and three) on my laptop for a while with great success: www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

I’m impressed!