Firefox 3 Download Day
Firefox 3 will be released later today. There are quite a few improvements in Firefox since version 2 was released. Memory leaks have been fixed, there's a new download manager, the introduction of th...
Fox News is Racist
I really don't understand how the American public is letting Fox news get away with their smearing of Obama. People on the channel have called him Osama, equated his fist-touch with his wife as a terr...
I Can't Watch This
Earlier this evening I tried watching a movie called Funny Games. The basic synopsis is as follows: > In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our cu...
Stand in Line for Me
So, the day that the iPhone 3g comes out, July 11th, I will be having my wisdom teeth removed. All four of them. What I need to do is find someone to go stand in line and buy one for me at one of the...
Lego Indiana Jones
In celebration of the end of the school year, I went out and purchased Lego Indiana Jones for the Wii. I've been watching videos of this game for a while and was looking forward to playing it. This ga...
The School Year in Review
There are two things that are special about this post. First, it is my 600th post. I've been posting for four years now and it just amazes me that I've posted 599 posts before this. Thank you to all t...
Stretch Your Imagination
A natural part of growing up for most of us is the loss of imagination. It doesn't totally disappear, we just stop using it as much or start using it in different ways. Instead of imagining being an a...
The End is Near
I saw that the school posted an opening for my job. Good luck to whoever takes it. They are going to need it. It's hard to do this job and stay sane. No breaks at all. I even eat lunch with the kids....
A Book a Day
I've been in a reading mood lately. I don't know what it is but I can't get enough of it. Friday night I bought two books, A Good and Happy Child and The Husband. A Good and Happy Child was a pretty g...
Dropbox
I was given an invite to Dropbox. In a nutshell, it's an online storage service that allows you to sync files across multiple computers. I'm syncing files via my PC running Vista and my MacBook runnin...
My Resignation
Today I turned in my letter of resignation. I will not be working for this school district next year. In fact, I won't be working for any school district next year. I am leaving the education field to...
Boom Blox
I purchased Boom Blox last night because it looked like a simple fun game. I've been watching videos of gameplay for months and with Steven Spielberg creating it, I thought it must be fun. I'll tell y...
My Life has Disappeared
I use a service called Lifestream.fm to aggregate my online life. It gathers my tweets from twitter, pictures from Flickr, my Diggs, recently played songs, my Del.icio.us feed, and blog posts from thi...
Scrobbling on the Mac
I love letting other people see what tracks I listen to and I love being able to find artists similar to what's on my playlist, that is why I love last.fm. Even though I don't use my MacBook for liste...
You're Tearing Us Apart
Hillary really is losing it. By it I mean her mind, the small amount of respect many people have left for her, the country, her future in politics, etc. Obama won North Carolina last night by a wide m...
Mario Kart Wii
I got Mario Kart Wii on launch day. This was one of the titles for the Wii that I've been looking forward to for a long time. I loved Mario Kart 64 and couldn't wait to see what Nintendo would come up...
Special Guest Stars
Do you ever watch television and in the credits you see Special Guest Star and then the person's name? Then after all they list all of the special guest stars they list the people that are Guest Starr...
WordPress 2.5 Widget Interface
I would like to state that who ever designed the widget interface in WordPress 2.5 is a complete moron. A retarded monkey could have done better. Gone are the days where you just drag and drop widgets...
Searchme
For the past several months I've noticed I've had a regular visitor to my site that would hit random pages multiple times throughout the day. Yes, it was a bot. The bot was indexing my site. The IP re...
Getting My Master's Degree
I received a flyer in my mailbox at school this morning for the University of Missouri's online Master's degree programs. One of the programs quickly grabbed my attention: Educational Technology. This...