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By gilroy0 • February 26th, 2009

You can now “subscribe” to the blog.  This will send you an email once a day listing any new posts, comments, etc.  This might make it easier to keep up with what’s going on.
To subscribe:

Log in.
Click “Site Admin”.
Click “Profile”.
Click “Subscriptions”.
Select “yes” and submit the entry.

That should do it.
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As mentioned in class, I am no more fond of giving reading quizzes as you are of taking them.  They consume class time, my time to write and to grade, and your time to prepare.  All that being said, they do serve a purpose:  They associate a direct cost with failing to do the reading.  [...]

If you’d like to have a little icon appear next to your name, you can visit www.gravatar.com and register for a free account there.  Many sites across the Web use these so-called gravatars so you would have a uniform icon.  You have to use the same email as the one you used in registering for [...]

The blog has been reset and readied for a new semester.  Welcome to the new students in the class.
AY2009B, if you’re curious, stands for “Academic Year 2009″ — the year of graduation — and the “B” means second semester.
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