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I overheard a University of California professor the other day discussing hiring. He said he would never consider someone that had an online degree for a professor position. His reason was simple, he didn’t think it was a real degree. I found this a bit disheartening since I earned a Master’s degree through an online…
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This tweet come across from Jason Calacanis today on my new favorite subject – what is twitter?: JasonCalacanis This quote “twitter is dial tone” from TWIT is really trending… http://tinyurl.com/ce5v6n @ev @biz @leolaporte Which got me thinking about my last blog post “So what is twitter anyway?” in which I so eloquently compare twitter to…
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Yesterday I was using Google to search for a way to load balance more than one Edubuntu Server for an upcoming summer project. Usually I can find what I am looking for on Google in the first page or two but this time all I could find was an old Linux Journal article from 2006…
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I just finished reading an article by Lester R. Brown about an impending global food crisis entitled “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?”. In the article Brown makes the case that the combination of global warming, population growth and declining fresh water aquifers is a recipe for a global disaster. The prediction is pretty grim…
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