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February 9, 2008

Lost and found in SF

Thursday night I was wandering around SF with a friend who was in town for a training (she was born and raised in SF, but has been in NC for almost 20 years). After going up Coit Tower (neither of us had before!), we wandered up the curvy part of Lombard Street on our way to a restaurant (Alive on...

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January 20, 2008

Drive 55! Save gas and fight global climate change

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January 20, 2008

Please don’t use Internet Explorer

It’s not just that it’s by Micro$oft. It’s that it’s not standards compliant. A little bit of history: When the web first started to use browsers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.), folks weren’t quite sure how to write the code so it would display “correctly” on every browser. Slowly, standards were developed, with the goal of writing HTML and other web...

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January 19, 2008

A great article on Peace by an old friend

I’m helping to organize my Berkeley High 30th year reunion this fall, and in the process am catching up with some old friends as well as making some new ones (BHS was–and still is–a big school, you didn’t know everyone). Joey Yovino-Young wrote a great piece in the Berkeley Daily Planet that I’d recommend: In the Beginning is the Word.

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January 8, 2008

A web site you can track your cars MPG and compare it to others.

GasSavers.org is kind of a cool web site. You can record your gas mileage there (you enter the date, amount of gas, and miles drive), and compare to others who have a car similar to yours. But beware, lots of the folks there are “hypermiling: using all sorts of driving techniques and physical modifications to their car to get better...

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December 8, 2007

Grade Machine is dead, long live Grade Machine

The grading program I have been using for over ten years, Grade Machine, has been purchased by an educational conglomerate (Pearson), who will discontinue support for it effective August 31, 2008. They have posted a “License editor” that allows users to generate the registration key required to re-install the program (you need the serial number from your purchase). The nice...

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October 29, 2007

Comet 17/P Holmes starting to light up the sky

There’s a comet that’s starting to sparkle the night sky: Comet 17/P Holmes. It is said to look quite nice with binoculars or a small telescope, but is also visible with the naked eye. NASA has a great 2D model of the comet’s orbit. (You’ll need Java, but almost all computers these days have it installed.) I’ll post more soon,...

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October 29, 2007

Book review: How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom

I haven’t read How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom yet, but it is available to read online, and a quick skim of it enticed me to come back soon for more. From the web site: How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical...

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August 14, 2007

I’m home!!!

I’m home, it’s midnight, and I have an 8:30 meeting tomorrow (today!) morning, so I’m off to bed. I’ll write more about my last couple days soon.

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August 12, 2007

Sleeping in Seattle

Well, I arrived in Seattle on Friday evening. I stayed with Bob and his wonderful fiancee Etsuko. Saturday Bob had to work (ah, the joys of owning your own business), and I slept the morning away. When I finally got up I hung out in a local cafe, Java Jazz, and caught up on emails and some ShopInBerkeley new pages...

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