March 2012
9 posts
Great article on the impact of OLPC →
What is your element? →
Future proof your kid →
It's only a matter of time →
My new old themesong →
February 2012
10 posts
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Black Churches and a New Generation of Protest →
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Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
collaberate of LaTeX documents →
sharelatex.com
Real Time LaTeX Collaboration The version you are looking at is always the most up to date. Watch other users update the same document you are working on in real time! 100% Online LaTeX Enviroment We worry about the LaTeX enviroment, …
Sweet! Collaboration for LaTeX.
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Learning about big data & Hadoop →
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Digital Textbook Playbook →
Here’s a resource from the FCC for parents and educators on moving to digital textbooks.
From their site:
The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators begin building rich digital learning experiences for students in districts across the country. The playbook offers information about determining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms,...
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Google's "mythbusting" response to Microsoft's... →
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SSH Hacks →
Here are some great tricks for using SSH.
January 2012
7 posts
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Example of using R with data mined from Twitter →
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Interesting sentiment of moving away from... →
Here’s an example of someone moving away from Google…They have empowered us in many ways with free Google Apps for EDU and non-profits, and we REALLY appreciate it, however I have noticed the pendulum potentially swinging back to the middle where people might not want to house everything in Google. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.
AT&T joins OpenStack as it launches cloud for... →
AT&T puts its weight behind OpenStack…
Uh-oh! The carriers want to manage your... →
By Galen Gruman | InfoWorld, infoworld.com
A perpetual fear of being merely ‘dumb’ pipes has telcos looking for ways to offer services. But can they really deliver?
The cellular carriers are in a bind — and have been for more than a decade. The value of phone calls has steadily…
Uh-oh! The carriers want to manage your smartphones | Mobile Technology - InfoWorld...
December 2011
8 posts
Finally, a simple task tracker
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2027
Looks like a fun tool for capturing data with your... →
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Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review →
See how the World Searched with Google’s 2011 Zeitgeist: http://googlezeitgeist.com/en.
That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up...
– Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary, which yes, of course you should watch (via lonelysandwich)
How to turn teens into engineers →
Interesting article on encouraging teens to learn about engineering.
Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability →
Soulskill, slashdot.org
wiredmikey writes “Adobe issued an advisory today on a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) that has come under attack in the wild. According to Adobe, the issue is a U3D memory corruption vulnerability that can be exploited t…
Time to update Adobe Reader…
November 2011
2 posts
Article: Adobe ends mobile Flash Player, reveals... →
I find this hysterically funny that Adobe has finally caved and is abandoning Flash for mobile. At least they did “the right thing”.
Google reportedly looking to get into the cable TV... →
Google continues to move into providing last-mile connectivity to homes? Could this pave the way to a new mode of ad-based revenue on TV akin to the ads that show up on the bottom of YouTube videos?
October 2011
2 posts
A fresh start for Google presentations →
Looks like Google presentations is providing a new interface and model for collaboration. Might serve to be a good tool for classroom collaboration…
Google Reader sendto Google+ →
Instructions for configuring Google Reader to send items to Google+.
September 2011
1 post
Outlook + Gmail tip: Configuration for Sent Items... →
I’ve received a number of questions recently about my Outlook + Gmail tip that I posted some time ago. I thought it might be helpful to update you with an ideal configuration for Outlook, or any…
June 2011
2 posts
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Setup DotCloud on Windows →
I’ve been experimenting with DotCloud, a platform as a service (PaaS) provider, and needed some help getting the client setup on my Windows box. I’m trying out this recipe in the hopes that I’ll be able to work on my DotCloud instances from my Windows box.
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Essential Unity Tweaks : Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty... →
This is a brilliant review of Ubuntu 11.04 that walks through the elements of the new Unity UI.
May 2011
5 posts
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PowerMac 9600 +NetBSD uptime
NetBSD hostname 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep 8 22:04:33 UTC 2002 autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/macppc/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC macppc 7:18AM up 2052 days, 17:06, 0 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.15, 0.11
Qotd for 2011-05-17 →
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. —Mike Kryzewski, Leading With the Heart
What ebook designers can learn from Bible-reading... →
Google adds pivot tables to Google Spreadsheets →
It never ceases to amaze me what Google can do with a browser. Who would have thought that you could do a pivot table in a web-based spreadsheet? I’ll have to run a comparison of pivot tables in…
April 2011
3 posts
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iPhoneTracker reveals the data your iPhone is... →
Interested in the data recorded by your iPhone about cell phone towers you’ve connected to? Check out iPhoneTracker.
Courtesy of @flowingdata.
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Even Ozzie couldn't save Microsoft
There’s an interesting sidebar in Wired where Chris Baker makes the point that even “Software genius Ray Ozzie was unable to drag the Windows behemoth into the 21st century.”
It seems that the genius behind Lotus Notes and Groove was not enough to raise Microsoft out of the hole it is in. Now, don’t get me wrong. Active Directory is one of the most wonderful things around....
Git Cheatsheet →
bengillies:
This has been shared a lot on Twitter, and has popped up on Hacker News, etc today, so me sharing it isn’t really new. However, it is very nicely done and lists all the commands inside helpful arrows showing you where everything fits.
March 2011
3 posts
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Format and clean your data with Google Refine →
FlowingData summarizes Google Refine, a tool for working with messy datasets.
See also: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/