Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, February 26th, 2007
I've never done a post like this before, but I figured it's another way to get the word out.
I'm looking for a Service Desk Manager to fill out my staff at the district office. I've posted the details on Craigslist, but you can also find it and apply on the ...
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
I was doing my GTD weekly review today and ran across the following notes I made in during a meeting a while ago:
What skills do successful, creative adults have?
They ask really good questions, and they can formulate strategies to find the answers.
They take intellectual risks.
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Every once in a while I'm overtaken by a bout of technology nostalgia. Although I'm not old enough to have any real experience with the ancient stuff I enjoy reading about it. (No punch cards for me. My first computer was an Apple ][e that my family bought when I ...
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Today was the first day of school in Minnesota. We nearly always start the Tuesday after Labor Day just as the first hint of fall color starts to appear. I suppose one advantage of my one-hour commute out into the country every morning is the chance to watch the changing ...
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
I've been running quite a bit lately in an effort to shed some weight and improve my fitness. My old heart rate monitor just gave out so I picked up a new Timex Bodylink on eBay. It's got a GPS receiver that straps to your arm and tracks distance and ...
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
On the Media from May 19, 2006 had a segment entitled "Fair Use Follies" that attempted to highlight some of the challenges faced by documentary filmmakers who are finding it increasingly difficult to decide when their use of copyrighted work constitutes fair use. It was an interesting discussion, and one ...
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
It's official as of tonight's school board meeting. My job search is over.
Starting July 1st I will be Director of Technology for the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools. Buffalo is a growing school district of almost 5,000 students just to the west of the Twin Cities metro area. As Director, I'll be responsible ...
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
I took a walk down Michigan Avenue to the Apple Store tonight. My hotel doesn't have wireless so I decided to pick up an AirPort Express to create my own wireless network in my room. Why is it that the nicer the hotel, the worse their network seems to be?
The ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
This has been quite a winter in the upper Midwest. Until last week we hadn't had a single day in Minneapolis with a daytime high below 0°F, and January was the warmest since records have been kept. That probably sounds plenty cold to most of you reading this, but around ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
I meet with a bunch of other ed tech folks from the Twin Cities area once a month to share ideas and see demonstrations of various learning technologies. As I type this I'm sitting in a meeting with a representative from the Minnesota Dept. of Education who is giving all ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Attention Mac users... Run, do not walk to download the Google Earth beta that's now available for OS X.
That's a shot of my office. I think I can almost make out my car. This isn't just for the U.S. folks, you can see the world with this tool. (You should probably ...
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Sunday, December 25th, 2005
Have you ever had a really cool idea and hoped like crazy that you were the first to think of it? I had that experience just last night as I got ready for bed, having just finished posting some photos to a Christmas photoset on Flickr.
One of our favorite things ...
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