Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
I’ve posted this to Lafayette’s Moodle Support forum, but figured I’d note it here as well: there’s a bug with Moodle that keeps it from staying in edit mode whenever you update or edit the page (e.g. adding a resource, updating an existing resource, etc.). I’m not sure what’s causing it, but I’ll be delving … Read more
I’ve got a soft spot for historical nautical fiction — the Age of Sail was a fascinating time period, in which the Earth was shrinking … but the distances were still so vast that men could be away from their families for years between trips home. I loved Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey novels, so it’s … Read more
Pedro Martinez is going to pitch for the IronPigs on Friday 7/31 at 7:05, according to the Morning Call. Which is cool, but it’d be even cooler if he was pitching tonight, since that’s the game I’ll be at.
Pedro Martinez threw a bullpen session at Coca-Cola Park earlier today as part of his rehab stint and possible return to major league baseball with the Phillies. There’s been a lot of speculation around the office (and the library) about Pedro possibly pitching for the IronPigs before going back to Philadelphia. Here’s to hoping we’ll … Read more
My geeky heart went a flitter this morning when my new Lacie 1 TB external hard drive arrived. It replaces my earlier 150 GB one, which I use for Time Machine backups with my Mac. The old one had worked just fine … right up until I filled most of my Mac’s hard drive. Suddenly … Read more
When we first launched Moodle at Lafayette, we ran a short series of podcasts called “The Moodle Minute” aimed at introducing folks to basic concepts associated with the new learning management system. Each episode ran about a minute, and while we had a lot of fun brain storming them, we just didn’t have enough time … Read more
I spent the first week of July 2009 hanging out with my family at our friends’ cabin on Butler Island, on Lake Champlain (on the Vermont side of the lake). We had a blast; our friends have twin 3-year-old boys who love hanging out with our son, who’s also three, and our 6-year-old daughter was … Read more
A number of people at Lafayette have been reporting a problem with Dreamweaver 8 no longer retaining their username and password information for their web sites. It turns out that the problem is Internet Explorer 7 (and 8); if you have either of these installed on your computer, it breaks Dreamweaver’s ability to save username … Read more
It’s been quite around here, partly because we’ve been working so hard to get WordPress MU up to speed, and partly because I was on vacation for two weeks. We’ve made a lot of progress on the WordPress front: sites.lafayette.edu, the successor to the pilot MU installation, is now online (and hosting this blog). It’s … Read more