RhetoricVille

I have been playing around lately with Joomla, the open source content-management system.  Partly I just like to learn new technologies — new to me, I mean.  Partly, I am thinking of using Joomla for the web site I manage for my union.   I am fond of open source software.  Not just because it’s free, […]

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I’m thinking of moving this blog off of the root directory at www.rhetoricville.com.  The reason is, I have put up a Google Apps site for the rhetoricville domain, and want to have the root available to represent that.  Or to be connected with that.  I may want to use the Google Apps in my courses, […]

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I was doing some of that grading the modern way this afternoon when the server at my school went down. So I have the work graded, but can’t return it online until the server comes back up. This is not a big deal for me; I did not promise to have all the work […]

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Apparently I qualify. You need to be 50+ and blog. This according to Ronni Bennett over at the Time Goes By blog. Well, I may as well own up to it. I passed 50 a few years ago. The year I turned 50, I helped organize a labor union. Since then, […]

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Currently, I am writing for my other blog, MWCWC: The weblog of the Marian Wright Computer Writing Center. Maybe I will cross-post some of the content here.

I also have a new Twitter micro-blog at http://twitter.com/jimanderson. Not sure how long I will keep that one up, but it is fun.

Finally, I have helped my wife, […]

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