Author: Brandon Kraft
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just playing around
This is just a sandbox post to play with some new plugins I’m trying out on the site. I added a location plugin that adds the “from [location]” as part of the “posted” information after each post. If you click on the location, geourl will return with various websites that are located near me. I…
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the classroom of tomorrow
[Originally published related to INF312/STS311] A couple of nights ago, I attended my first “virtual class” for INF 312. The professor spoke to the students through a live video feed (either Real or Quicktime). The students interacted with each other and the professor by using a chat client. In this case, we used Blackboard‘s built-in…
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i312: this shouldn’t be too bad
[Originally published related to INF312/STS311] With the first summer session starting last week, I started INF 312 (Information in Cyberspace). This course in the School of Information is designed to give students a understanding of basic internet concepts hitting highlights such as Unix, proper XHTML coding, basic computer security and whatnot. The course is web-based…
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public school baccalaureates
The not-so-biblical biblical baccalaureate GetReligion, a blog dealing with religion in media, commented Tuesday on a story out of St. Louis that Lindbergh High School will be having two baccalaureates this year. Baccalaureates, traditionally, are religious services held before graduation. After the division between church and state became more defined, school-sponsored baccalaureates overall disappeared. Some…
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gq takes a look at benedict xvi
I’m looking through the June 2005 issue of GQ and the Letter from the Editor is all about our good ole’ Holy Father. I just knew Benedict would get that pope job. One look at the guy and you could smell the namked ambition. The way he was traipsing around the Vatican in long flowing…
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the long goodbye
Note: I try to make this site useful and interesting to the general public but every so often, I just want to have a personal post. This is one such post. I have known for a good while that many people close to me would be leaving at the end of this semester. This reality…