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Test post from TypePad’s Blogit
This is a test, posting from my iPod Touch.
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Would a rose by any other name smell just as sweet?
According to a recent study, [names really do make a difference][]: > Parents are being warned to think long and hard when choosing names > for their babies as research has discovered that girls who are given > very feminine names, such as Anna, Emma or Elizabeth, are less likely > to study maths or…
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Happy 35th Birthday Ethernet
[May 22, 1973: Enter Ethernet][] > 1973: Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center writes a > memo outlining how to connect the think tank’s new personal computers > to a shared printer. The memo puts forth the basic properties of — > and names — ethernet. Looking at his diagram, he had…
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Wiimote interactive whiteboard success
Since I am home this week, I decided to get caught up on some projects. The big one was working on getting an [interactive whiteboard setup going with a Nintendo Wiimote and an infrared pen][]. This morning, I finally got my infrared pen working. What I did was bought a cheap LED flashlight from Walmart…
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Why do students need email?
[![][]][]On the Ohio Technology Coordinator’s listserv this question was posted: > We already had one case of student to teacher generated e-mail that > originated on a student computer inside the school. The FIRST question > I got as the Tech Director was ‘Why are you allowing students to send > and receive email in…
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End of year humor
[Exempt Those Exams!][]
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Maybe, finally, found the perfect blog editor
Although the built-in editor for WordPress works pretty well, it still feels a little bit kludgy. If I’m on my MacBook I like to use Windows Live Writer or Textmate, but Windows Live Writer requires me to fire up VMware and Textmate seems to also be a little kludgy. I’ve looked at the ScribeFire Firefox…
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Free access to Encyclopedia Britannica articles
Encyclopedia Britannica, through their Encyclopedia Britannica Webshare program allows web publishers free online access to the encyclopedia and the ability to give their readers free access to an article in its entirety. A special program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia…
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Where’s the outrage?
[][] [][] photo credit: jigpuAfter I first read this story, I thought that it was a pretty cool: When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. Upon reflection I realized that…