Comments on: One of those days to cap off one of those weeks http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/ Technologies for Learning, Thinking and Collaborating Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:31:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Scott http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1027 Scott Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:29:14 +0000 http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1027 Jim, seriously, if you guys weren't located on the other side of the continent and it would mean us leaving glorious Victoria, I would jump at that in a second! I consider myself one of the legion of UMW admirers (though I confess, I have yet to submit my Reverend Jim purchase order. Soon, soon.) Jim, seriously, if you guys weren’t located on the other side of the continent and it would mean us leaving glorious Victoria, I would jump at that in a second! I consider myself one of the legion of UMW admirers (though I confess, I have yet to submit my Reverend Jim purchase order. Soon, soon.)

]]> By: Jim http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1026 Jim Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:22:09 +0000 http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1026 One thing I'll say about the IT folks at UMW is that we get along exceptionally wel. In fact, I think they want to hug us because everything we do in Instructional Technology is hosted off-campus -we never have to bother them. We only get together to trade baseball cards and talk about the weather. It is a really tight bond! While the folks at Bluehost are generally absent and we couldn't hug them if we wanted to -there have been a couple of times I have wanted to. We have little in the way of downtime, and we're only paying them 6.95 a month (although the figure is higher for we have many accounts). That said, sometimes the limits become real. For example, we are planning a WPMU install with dynamic subdomains via WildCard DNS (yadda, yadda, yadda) -and it is a no go at Bluehost. So the freedom is awesome, and we have been unbelievably lucky thus far. But we may be feeling the ceiling on certain things that require a little bit more server love. Oh yeah, and we may be hiring soon, and I have a friend in immigration;) One thing I’ll say about the IT folks at UMW is that we get along exceptionally wel. In fact, I think they want to hug us because everything we do in Instructional Technology is hosted off-campus -we never have to bother them. We only get together to trade baseball cards and talk about the weather. It is a really tight bond! While the folks at Bluehost are generally absent and we couldn’t hug them if we wanted to -there have been a couple of times I have wanted to. We have little in the way of downtime, and we’re only paying them 6.95 a month (although the figure is higher for we have many accounts). That said, sometimes the limits become real. For example, we are planning a WPMU install with dynamic subdomains via WildCard DNS (yadda, yadda, yadda) -and it is a no go at Bluehost. So the freedom is awesome, and we have been unbelievably lucky thus far. But we may be feeling the ceiling on certain things that require a little bit more server love.

Oh yeah, and we may be hiring soon, and I have a friend in immigration;)

]]> By: Scott http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1025 Scott Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:19:57 +0000 http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1025 Well go give 'em a big <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdWApwbudQ" rel="nofollow">man hug</a> already! Well go give ‘em a big man hug already!

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1024 D'Arcy Norman Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:05:56 +0000 http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2007/06/22/it-sob-story/#comment-1024 One thing I'll say about the IT folks here at UCalgary is that they're generally awesome. They really do try to help out, do a lot of great work, and their service reliability is pretty darned good (not counting the near-constant Blackboard outages, but I don't use Blackboard so that really doesn't affect me...) One thing I’ll say about the IT folks here at UCalgary is that they’re generally awesome. They really do try to help out, do a lot of great work, and their service reliability is pretty darned good (not counting the near-constant Blackboard outages, but I don’t use Blackboard so that really doesn’t affect me…)

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