The best thing about a day off, for any reason, is that you can focus all your attentions on the important work of sleeping all day long. Okay, so it’s a depressive thing to do, but sometimes avoiding everything that…
Category: Journal
Daily Work: Bleh
A rather boring day for readers. My back is all achey, so I’m taking tomorrow off to try to rest it before it gets any worse. Still working on the GIC blog, but the damned thing just won’t publish. I…
For Windows: HDClone Free Edition
HDClone Free Edition download and review – copy data to a larger hard drive from SnapFiles—another good thing to have around for future use. I haven’t tried it out, but it looks as though it could be a good tool.
Musings: How To Make a Secret Hollow Book:
How To Make a Secret Hollow Book: – How To Do Stuff—I’m horribly entertained by the idea of creating one of these. The problem is that I’d want it to be a book that was in some way meaningful. A…
Travel: One Bag
One Bag (all about packing, luggage, and travelling light)—given that I’m about the worst at packing in one bag or packing the right things for the trip at hand, this seemed like a useful link to save. I should restate…
In the News: Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television – New York Times
Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television—an interesting study that compared testing results for pre-television communities to current communities. I’m not completely sure that I buy that these communities, decades apart, are a perfect match. So many other areas…
In the News: Better Love than Roses
Words of Love More Sought Than Roses – New York Times—there’s something interesting about this article, which tells us that “In the week before Valentine’s Day, people were more likely to search online for the keywords ‘love poems’ than for…
Daily Work of Varying Types
I did some rearranging in the kitchen, putting up small chrome shelves on the counter. I still don’t know where everything goes, but it’s better than it was. Otherwise, I was a laze-about. Spent a lot of time on GIC…
Daily Work: On a Saturday
I finally finished Donorboy so that I can read Flush. It ended PERFECTLY. Absolutely perfectly. One of the best, most realistic books I’ve read—and definitely the most authentic voices using technology. I knew I wasn’t crazy when I said those…
In the News: New Media and Podcasting
Education’s Next Wave? Duke Augments Its Embrace of iPods With Beta Trial of Apple’s iTunes U outlines ways that the university is using podcasts in the classroom to share media files. There’s so much potential here: giving students copies of…