Daily Archives: 9 October 2006

Two from Billboard, close but no cigars

One: This Day in Music History is a great way of gaining information about particular days and the significant musical events that occurred… except that it only works for the current date, and 15 days before.  So much for checking … Continue reading

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Unscramble

One of the frustrations in life is needing to find the spelling of a word when it is the beginning of the word that you aren’t sure of. How does one find “phonetic” in the dictionary if you aren’t thinking … Continue reading

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Common Cartridge – a standard for learning management software

It has been announced that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called Common Cartridge, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software. … Continue reading

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