Well on Friday I was diverted on my from Oklahoma to Las Vegas.
I ended up staying in Salt Lake City.
And I have to say, it seemed a fairly dull and uninspiring place - and rather ugly - even for an American city. It was much bigger than I thought though.
Anyway, I'm now in Las Vegas, and went to see Rita Rudner last night - a very funny lady still, the show was worth every penny / cent. Highly recommended.
OK, so we are a Moodle Partner. But do people really think we are some type of 'charity'? (Maybe they do!?) I get emails similar to these two below every single day, so please don't be offended if I don't answer yours. Yes, we DO things for free. Take a look at www.openicdl.org as an example - the development work on this single project is probably over $100,000 - and no-one even notices. A question like this should be posted in a community forum (somewhere) but not emailed to a person directly "Dear sir:
Could you tell me How to achieve the "SSO" in "Moodle"? (It means that people can log-in to moodle throught other website) How can i make this by "php" or "asp"...? Thankyou. Mr **** (support@*********.net) ********.net Hello I am having problems with Raw Record Count as you answered in the forum I thought could help me use the moodle 1.9.4 installed fine except that when I go to report it gives this error "A required parameter (id) was missing" could help me . Thanks Hello, I want to install moodle on my site created at weebly. Is it possible to do that? Please respond immediately. How much is the fee? Please give me more details on requirements. Sincerely, Mr. R*** O******
by Stuart Mealor - Thursday, 30 April 2009, 06:58 PM
Anyone in the world
Recently I drove from Auckland to Paihia, and stopped for a 'pit stop' in Whangarei. I hadn't rejoined the road for more than a minute whan i was pulled over by a police car. What could be the reason I thought? Did he think I turned a corner too quickly? So, I got out, and he said "You haven't been wearing your seat belt." I said "Yes I have, I've just taken it off to get out and talk to you!" He said, "No you didn't." I was confused. Then thought..., oh, maybe I didn't re-do my seat belt after stopping for the toilet? I explained this. Now HERE is the point... Police officers are really (well) trained to spot when someone is lying. So, this officer would have known by my voice, eyes, body language, and everything else that I had genuinely thought I had my seat belt on, and that I had only gone a couple of hundred feet. So, what would be the sensible thing to do? In a sane world it would be for the officer to warn me, and remind me to be more careful. And I would be. But NO. A fine of $150. Yes, $150. To put this into perspective... a friend of mine was caught speeding around 15kph over the limit. Her fine? $80. So, it seems that not wearing a seat belt (endangering myself?) is more of a crime that speeding and potentially harming others. Ultimately it says one thing. Policing in New Zealand is about MAKING MONEY first, and actual safety second. And that is a real shame. Actually, it's worse, it's absolutely disgusting. There are people being murdered in New Zealand. There are hundreds of drugs related crimes. The domestic violence and abuse figures are shockingly high. - - - but you can't make money out of solving those can you - - - NZ Police will never get voluntary cooperation from me while they continue to work this way. (And this incident happened a few hundred yards from the last "infringement" when an officer said I could have braked for an orange light, and that wasn't true either because HE made it through the orange light after me!).
My friend works in a Pharmacy. So she made me a medical pack (usually reserved for the old and the mad). But she filled it full of sweets! Cool. And even did the labels up correctly...
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