|
|
| |
Peter Nixon
|
Saturday, 30 November 2002
|
|
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." -- Mother Teresa
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
10:56:29 AM 
|
|
|
|
|
Friday, 29 November 2002
|
|
Helen Keller. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
1:13:16 AM
|
|
|
Where teachers meet online - Jenny Sinclair. An experiment in online conferencing has spread worldwide from its base in Britain, becoming a forum for Australian educators to learn about teaching with technology. The Vision 2020 Online conference was originally set up as a forum for an elite group of British schools by the British governmentfunded Technology Colleges Trust.
[Educational Technology]
I'm a bit disappointed I hadn't heard of this before.
1:01:54 AM
|
|
|
Data Storage to Go - Michelle Thatcher, techLEARNING. The latest portable drives promise easy data movement between classroom and home, PCs and Macs. With the proliferation of MP3s, digital photos, and multimedia presentations, it seems as though the world is filling with information. As our hard drives bulge with ever more massive files, our increasingly mobile lifestyles demand that we carry all our data with us to our home, office, school, or wherever we might be.
[Educational Technology]
I think a problem here is that this article ignores how students are actually using Apple's iPod. It is exactly what these examples describe, only better, in a Firewire environment.
12:57:23 AM
|
|
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes. "Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
12:20:50 AM
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 27 November 2002
|
|
That reminds me - "Goss" sent me this one.
Alan Kay, one of the founders of famed Silicon Valley research lab Xerox PARC and a computer-industry pioneer, is joining Hewlett-Packard Co.'s research lab...
8:08:59 PM
|
|
|
Epictetus. "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Epictetus is fast becoming my favourite philosopher since reading the Tom Wolfe book whose name I've forgotten. "Goss" will remind me.
8:02:16 PM
|
|
|
|
|
Monday, 25 November 2002
|
|
Teachers Mainely Happy With Tech , Wired. When Maine Gov. Angus King unveiled his plan to put a computer in the hands of every seventh-grader in the state, some thought the idea was as loony as trying to catch a laptop in a lobster trap. Teachers in particular were concerned. After all, they would be expected to use the machines with their students -- many of whom knew more about computers than they did.
[Educational Technology]
10:08:51 PM
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 19 November 2002
|
|
Psst! Wanna buy a Segway?
5:33:29 PM
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday, 17 November 2002
|
|
Students Treat Laptops with TLC - Katie Dean, Wired. Not many middle-schoolers would refer to a 500-page textbook or graphing calculator as a buddy. But that's the term one student in Maine used to describe his iBook, which he received as part of Maine's initiative to provide every seventh- and eighth-grader in the state with a laptop.
[Educational Technology]
11:53:57 PM
|
|
|
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up." - Rev. Jesse Jackson
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
12:58:13 PM
|
|
|
|
|
Saturday, 16 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Friday, 15 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Thursday, 14 November 2002
|
|
Listening for oceans on Europa. An intriguing idea for finding oceans on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, involves not much more than a microphone. As tidal forces squeeze the moon, any ice sitting above water will flex, crack and quake, creating audio signatures.
Nick Makris, an acoustical oceanographer and associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present this idea next week at the Geological Society of American conference in Denver.
The technique has already been tested on ice above the Arctic Sea and more trials will be done at Lake Vostok and other thick Antarctic ice sheets, more similar to Europa's estimated 20 kilometre depth of ice.
More information
[David Harris: Science news]
11:03:08 AM
|
|
|
Glenn Gould: "Goldberg Variations". A new box set offers the ingenious 1955 interpretation of Bach's odes to God that turned Gould into a star, and the remarkably different version he recorded in 1981 out of contempt for the former.
[Salon.com]
1:46:39 AM
|
|
|
Security guards at Rolling Stones concerts are ordering people to hang up their cellphones and stop "violating copyright" by letting long-distance pals listen in on the show.
I think all of this talk of copyright is getting out of hand.
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
1:03:01 AM
|
|
|
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." --Winston Churchill
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
12:20:50 AM
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 13 November 2002
|
|
E. F. Schumacher. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
12:12:27 AM
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 12 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Monday, 11 November 2002
|
|
"Goss" pointed me to this article about putting a CD-ROM drive in a very old, very small computer indeed!
9:24:19 AM
|
|
|
|
|
Saturday, 9 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Friday, 8 November 2002
|
|
Bush's reefer madness. Terrified that an increasingly pot-tolerant America will spell the end of their moral crusade, the president's anti-drug warriors are making a last stand over marijuana.
[Salon.com]
12:40:41 AM
|
|
|
|
|
Thursday, 7 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 6 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 5 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Monday, 4 November 2002
|
|
|
|
Sunday, 3 November 2002
|
|
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
10:59:05 PM
|
|
|
Frank Crane. "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
2:54:18 AM
|
|
|
Microsoft's media monopoly.
Bill Gates wants to control the delivery of digital entertainment into your home. And according to a lawsuit brought by a pioneering software company, he's prepared to crush anything that gets in his way. First of two parts.
[Salon.com]
2:45:02 AM
|
|
|
|
|
Saturday, 2 November 2002
|
|
|
© Copyright 2005 Peter Nixon.
Last update: 27/9/05; 8:55:38 PM.
|
|
|
|
