If you are searching for a way to load an image into a blog posting, there is a site out there that will make this task easy. The site is wylio.com and it provides a great service for searching Flickr.com for Creative Commons images that fit your search criteria. In Flickr, people can attribute their images with Creative Commons licensing making millions of images available for public use. Wylio taps into this vast data store and formats the image of your choice to fit cleanly (with attribution) into a blog post or twitter post. Since it’s groundhog day, I thought I’d find a snappy free image of Puxatany Phil for this post.
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Erik Ordway Receives the Recognizing Excellence Award
Erik putting his award where he puts all his important documents
Erik received the coveted Computing and Communications Recognizing Excellence Award Wednesday Dec 15 for his over the top work as Manager of Scientific Computing. To quote the nomination, “With the loss of one of the two professional positions in the CAL, Erik has been forced to wear many hats. This might have caused the ordinary human to cower in a dark corner waiting for it all to go away. As a different kind of human and in spite of this doubling of responsibility, Erik has managed to thrive.
The job roles he has taken on include, but are not limited to: managing the CAL, training and mentoring his 10+ student staff, building and deploying images to support the instrumentation computers in the labs (30+ highly quirky machines), supporting SI and ES planning units as the Academic Computing Liaison, taking on the role of application administrator for Moodle (no small task), managing a multitude of Rails applications and on the side he builds new non-trivial web applications for Academic Computing (SiteTracker and Moodle Connections). He somehow manages the stress, remains generally friendly, non-confrontational, appears to still get a good night sleep, and by all reports not in the CAL” Congratulations Erik!
Student email Performance Improvement
Student email services should be quicker and more reliable based on some changes that Network Services made in the past week. The latency problems that many students reported seemed to stem from the way our anti-virus software was configured on the email server. If you have any email related problems or notice any issues, please contact Academic Computing at Contact.
Have you lost your thumb drive??
Did you know that people leave thumb drives behind in the Computer Center all the time? (I know, hard to believe..) We have an extensive lost and found with all sorts of stuff left behind, and a special system for thumb drives. We’d love to get yours back to you if you think you might have left one behind in one of the computers.
When we find a drive left in the center, we log it in our lost and found system and then try and contact the owner if we can dig up that information. Please stop by the computer center consultant desk (and bring ID) if you think this might be you and we will happily reunite you with your data!
