All articles from: August, 2009
Required Reading
Posted on 03/08/2009 by Peter La Fleur
This is an absolute must-read regarding the workings (or not-working) of health insurance in the U.S. The ‘Nuclear Option’ in the Health Insurance Industry
More importantly the abuse of statistics in logic/reasoning. There is nothing like statistics, and most other numeric reporting like financial statements, to redirect discussion away from an important issue [...]
Blackboard Client and Mac OSX
Posted on 03/08/2009 by Peter La Fleur
Having spent some time this weekend fiddling with a Blackboard client on a Mac the news is bad.
Rasperries for blackboard! -Zero support for Apple’s browser. Must use Firefox.
-I had headphone/mic connectivity issues of the highest (non-functioning) order with the Java client. It seems to me it’s java runtime issue as the devices appear, [...]