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Quote of the Month 26
Written by Mike
The quote for October and November:
" We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace -- business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Address Announcing the Second New Deal
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Spa Naoiri #5 Featured
5th? Track Day
The Inax Toilet Scam
It's been a little over 12 years since we built our house. The toilet on the first floor is an Inax model CW-H22 washlet toilet. (H20 type) So, to get right to the point, a little over 10 years after the house was built the lights for the washlet strength started to flash. Nothing seemed to be wrong with it, but once the lights started flashing, you could no longer adjust the water pressure on the spray.
If you want to see how I fixed it, hit "Read More..."
I have pretty much always had locale errors on my Ubuntu servers. I figured it was probably due to having it set for US English with a Japanese keyboard or something. Well, I finally got around to fixing the problem.
Click Read more to do just that...
Okay, so I'm mostly just putting this here because I hate having to look it up whenever I do an upgrade - which is infrequent enough that I inevitably have to look it up.
This is a post explaining in detail how to upgrade your MyBB Forum so if you really couldn't be bothered with outdated crap like forums, DON'T click the Read More button! Otherwise, proceed at your own risk.
Route 58
I had to go out to the Hyakadai park on the Shimabara peninsula the other day and wanted to find a little traveled twisty to make the trip worthwhile.
Google maps was showing route 58 as wider than the "Wide Farm Road", which I knew wasn't the case. I had been on it about 10 years ago in my Jimny (Japanese version of the Suzuki Samurai) and remember it being tight and not worth the effort. On a bike, however I was wondering... Click Read More to continue.
For teachers who like to use Cloze questions, it can sometimes seem like there is no easy way to go about creating the questions. It would be nice if we could do something like an Aiken import from a csv or something to upload a bunch of questions all at once, but so far that ability just isn't out there.
However, there is a plugin that has made it easier to implement the code within the TinyMC editor in Moodle. Called The Cloze Editor Module, it adds a button to the TinyMC editor that gives you a small GUI to choose the type of Cloze question you want to create, input the possible answers and feedback, then generates the code for you. So, instead of a bunch of copy-paste or code editing, it is just a couple of clicks to create great fill in the gap exercises or multiple choice problems of the Cloze question type.
It was a breeze to install and is very easy to use - no real learning curve at all. In fact, teachers that have been scared away from Cloze due to the appearance of code should have no problem using this interface. Installation instructions are shown in the link above.
Keep on Moodling!