Wise Moodle

After a few pretty stressful weeks, it looks like nearly all the glitches have been ironed out of our new Moodle installation (which is awesome because it is integrated with the university's database, enabling almost automatic creation of courses and registration of students). A remaining glitch is that it doesn't play nice with some versions of Internet Explorer and in particular it won't display Powerpoint documents in IE. I was tempted to dive in to the tide of e-mails flooding the Moodle admin list to say

Moodle is wise. Moodle knows that:
  (a) Internet Explorer is evil;
  (b) Powerpoint is evil. Powerpoint was responsible for the invasion of Iraq.

OK, I exaggerate a little, but apparently the dumbing down of presidential briefings to get them into a Powerpoint presentation (and, I presume, to make them comprehensible to the president) meant that Saddam's WMD capability was blown out of proportion.