Random rantings

Am I too serious or the world is full of junk?

Human beings?

Robert Jordan

His collection of swords has been sold by his hairs... how lovely of them!

So true

http://xkcd.com/806/

Wy does Northeastern information service suck

Blackboard

Suppose you want to use Blackboard to inform students of theyr grades. Suppose also that you want to handle the grades locally on your machine, say via some script that simplify the boring task for you.
Let's download the gradebook file, we can even chose which format do we like best: tab separated or comma separated....

(VulK@parsip)(3007/pts/3)(11:30am:02/16/09)-
(%:/tmp)- file gb_export.*
gb_export.csv: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1,  64 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Stereo
gb_export.xls: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 128 kBits, Stereo
(VulK@parsip)(3008/pts/3)(11:30am:02/16/09)-
(%:/tmp)-

precisely what a sane person would expect!

Mail

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