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Eolas is at it again

Update: In 2013, four years after I posted this blog entry, Eolas lost their court case and subsequent appeals. Eolas Technologies is a company that manages licensing for patents. Eolas seeks to return value to its shareholders by commercializing these technologies through strategic alliances, licensing and spin offs. (source) The

SCORM security (two kinds of SCORM people)

I’ve had a flurry of emails and messages regarding my SCORM cheat the past few days, and have received feedback from a number of well-regarded SCORM aficionados, some of whom contributed to the standard and helped make SCORM what it is today. This is wonderful, I’m very happy

Cheating in SCORM

Update: The bookmarklet has been taken down as a courtesy to the e-learning developer community. I am not giving out the code, please don’t ask. I’m always surprised how little people talk about cheating in e-learning; maybe it’s a fear of revealing just how easy it can

Hawaiian diacriticals

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of encountering the Hawaiian language, it’s a very simple but elegant language.  The written form is largely phonetic (cooked up by American missionaries in the 1800s) and makes use of two diacritical marks: the ‘okina, and the macron (also

Constructive criticism for the new whitehouse.gov

The new whitehouse.gov site has received a lot of press since its unveiling a few days ago. Many have rightly given it kudos for bringing a modern sense of design and “Web 2.0”-style social practices to the White House. I agree the new site is a big

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