Jeffrey C. Long

I recently added my blogroll to the site. A blogroll is a list of the blogs that I frequent. In my case, I have a program on my pocketpc that automatically downloads the content of these sites so that I can read them at my leisure. One of the sites that I’d like to highlight [...]

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I had the oddest experience yesterday while driving to class. They are doing some repair work on the road, and so I was stopped by a lone flagwoman. She was standing on the opposite side of my car, so I couldn’t regale her with my usual witty reparté. I waited, and waited, then waited some [...]

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Written from the class “Literacy across the Curriculum.” A dialogue just ensued between myself and the professor over the the purpose of an author’s intent in determining the meaning of a text. It was prompted by the reading of a poem from which no apparent meaning could be discerned, which was left as an example [...]

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Written prior to a college class Today the supreme court decided to sidestep the church/state challenge of the statement “one nation under God” found in the United States Pledge of Allegiance declaring that the lawsuit was not proper because the litigant did not have legal authority to question the appropriateness of his daughter’s education. Pundits [...]

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I recently changed the tagline of my blog focusing it a little tighter. One of the changes was the addition of “Collaboration Tools” as one of my themes. The internet has leveraged the computing skills of thousands of people into the creation of the Linux Operating system. Wikipedia has enlisted the aid of numerous contributors [...]

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