Back in the day, many kids got chemistry sets, erector sets, and other platforms for technical exploration on Christmas Day. The modern equivalent is the Arduino board. This small piece of hardware (which you can get as a completed board, or solder up yourself) is an interface (via USB) between your computer (where you write [...]
If you have ever considered a few rather obvious questions, such as: · With the competitiveness of the global market increasing, with the rapid changes in technology and our society…just how well is a traditional liberal arts degree serving new graduates as they enter the workforce? · Are college tuitions increasing so rapidly as to [...]
While I use my Google Reader account and iPad magazine aggregators as a primary source of how I gather information these days, the fact is, I read most of it (at least as a first time) using one of the utilities I have which strip most of the extraneous formatting and advertisements out of the [...]
There are plenty of RSS readers out there…offline readers, desktop readers, iOS readers, android readers, and so on… I have been using Google Reader as the foundation of my personal information network since 2005. If you subscribe to any Google products (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.) using GReader is literally a no-brainer. It takes [...]
Over the last decade I have been incrementally becoming more and more mobile…at least with regard to computers and the internet. The changes in personal technology have allowed me to progress from being tied to a desktop computer system-through a variety of laptops-to my current set-up (a little NetBook, an iPhone, and an iPad). Every [...]
Online magazines for mobile devices (i.e. Android, and iOS devices like iPhone and iPad) are not exactly magazines, not exactly newspapers, or even RSS readers…but they can be, if you wish it. I have been trying out almost every one of these new forms of information presentation since I first got an iPad (some time [...]
Along with my previous posts for this week, I am presenting some information related to some topics I always reevaluate for myself at the end of the year (I like nice round numbers as much as anyone…). Today I have some links related to personal online and computer security. There are so many anti-virus and [...]
There are so many new ways in which you can interact with the cloud these days that it might not be so important to try to enumerate them. I have used EverNote and DropBox for several years, and have been taking my time to evaluate Microsoft’s SkyDrive (you get 25 gigabytes of free online storage!), [...]
About this time, every year, I set take stock of the computer based tools I use. Foremost of these is the web browser. I have been a Firefox adherent for years, but have taken the time to try out Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome…on a yearly basis. Amazingly enough or me this time, Google Chrome [...]
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The two articles I have linked for this post relate to some of the slowly increasing problems inherent in our education system. The growing push to spend more time upon issues like self esteem and less upon traditional ‘work’ by students would seem to have a measurable impact upon student outcomes. I can’t say that [...]
I am a firm believer in using EverNote whenever I can; it is one of my mainstays in keeping a paperless life. Having said that, EverNote has been a worthwhile tool in itself, but now there are some new wrinkles to check out: EverNote Food is a tool which can allow you to document all [...]
I guess that the parrot being shown in the video (see below) is part of what a rather small controversy is regarding whether this is, in fact, the parrot which Winston Churchill had in the 1930’s. This would make the parrot about 104 years old! Winston Churchill’s Pets http://www.historyinanhour.com/blog/read_16661/winston-churchills-pets.html
It is interesting to see that there is still a divide between high and low culture…although these days it is more like effete culture and broad culture. In the 50’s Tolkien’s magnum opus (e.g. The Lord of the Rings) garnered little if any press coverage (i.e. the literary press). Over the years it is still [...]
