Creative Commons

Students are also required to create a “course page” that has information about their class project and the article that they bring to class when it’s their turn to lead discussion.

Here’s what your Creative Commons license — published on your course page –  might look like:

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.

Truth In Advertising: Not

I’ve threatened to do this before … but I’ve finally hit my breaking point. Letter to the FCC to follow … I’m tired of cable stations not honoring their published schedules!

TVLand is the latest culprit. We discovered that they have oldies like M*A*S*H, All In The Family (which I appreciate more as an adult than I did when it was "live"), even Bonanza. So we set up a RePlay channel for M*A*S*H (we’d just watched the movie on Netflix – that’s how we found the TVLand site).

Three times in a row, we’ve sat down to watch M*A*S*H … and discovered that RePlay recorded 10 minutes or so of Sanford and Son before M*A*S*H kicked in. This doesn’t mean RePlay is screwed up — it starts recording when the network says it’s gonna start the show.

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How To: Uploading An Image In WP

Note: WP changed the interface in Mar 2008. These screenshots are no longer accurate for WordPress.com but are for an earlier installed version of WP. When I’ve updated this, I’ll link to it here.

This post is “how to” insert an image into a WordPress blog post.

First, if the image is not yet hosted on a webserver somewhere, you need to upload it to WordPress or to an image hosting site such as Flickr or PhotoBucket.

The “upload to WordPress” is easy — look at the bottom of your blog post window: there is an “upload” tab. Browse your harddrive and find your image (this is web-based FTP). Be sure your cursor is where you want the image to appear when you do this step! [Note: you have only 50 MB 3 GB of free space at WordPress -- if you're going to use images frequently, you'll want to host them on an external website.] Continue reading

Oh. Good. Grief.

Chalk this up to my ignoring the SuperBowl (except for the Frito Lay commercials) … but I just found out that the Dolphin’s website — the SuperBowl host site — was hacked last week. (tip, tip) "The attackers are exploiting flaws patched in Microsoft’s MS06-014 and MS07-004 bulletins." Hello??

Who found it? External security guys, of course.

From Online Security Authority: "The file downloaded in the attack is a keystroke logger and a remote control tool, also called a backdoor, Websense said. Attackers get full access to the compromised PC."

The website runs MSIIS and Windows 2000, according to Netcraft.

Do people even think about crisis planning/prevention anymore?