I would imagine the human factor associated with adopting a centralized calendar—or for that matter a content management system—becomes more complex the larger the institution gets. On the other hand, the larger institution should have more resources and personnel to throw at the issue–though this is not always the case.
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Integrated calendaring and the quest for simple complexity
Published by Joshua June 8th, 2005 in Uncategorized. 3 CommentsBBspot - Which File Extension Are You?
Published by Joshua May 20th, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI am so glad it is Friday.
Which File Extension are You?
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Well, it might be more appropriate to say that we, my wife and I, are considerably indebted to the bank with a small amount of equity due to an excellent purchase price.
The hurry-up-and-wait process ended this morning in a flurry of activity that began with a phone call late yesterday afternoon.
So to sum up the [...]
90% of college freshmen have never shared a room
Published by Joshua April 27th, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsWhen I heard this statistic—which is a statistic for Pacific University, though likely to be fairly typical—I couldn’t help but be a little discouraged by it. Pacific’s growth plans include the development of residence halls (dorms to anyone not used to higher-education speak) with rooms that will house individuals—no roommates. If 90% of [...]
Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia
Published by Joshua April 22nd, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsDaring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - Made me laugh. I wish all legalese could be translated with such acumen. Did I mention I’m buying a house?
I believe I thoroughly despise Dreamweaver over FTP. It has literally stolen a good hour of my time today. Using Dreamweaver over FTP has probably stolen more than a week of my time since I started using the product.
To be fair, it helps if you are connecting to a decent server. For [...]
Great photography and a great cause—what more could we want.
Can you spell Mobile Hippie. This is a slick trick and some fun use of photography. It even gives you the code to drop into your site. Only one problem I can see with this—bandwidth. This is going to generate a ton of traffic on both metaatem.net and flickr.com.
This weekend my wife and I went house hunting. We thought we had our loan in hand—more on that latter—so it should have been as easy as finding something we liked and going from there. It wasn’t quite so easy.
First, there is the little issue of how much home we could afford. We didn’t want [...]