STANFORD Magazine: March/April 2007 > Features > Mind-set Research My friend Paul sent me a link to this article and it rang a definite bell. In high school I got by simply because I was smart and very good at taking tests. I got good grades and was a National Merit Scholar. Tons of colleges …
This is really cool. This installs IE6 (or earlier versions if you want them) on Ubuntu. There are very few times these days when I need IE for some reason, but it still happens. Now I don’t need to reboot into XP (which I still need for work purposes) or power up VirtualBox for my …
Happy Father’s Day We planned to spend the day biking. However… we woke to the sound of rain, loads of rain. So instead I am up surfing the net a bit. What we’re going to do with three kids (our own and one loaner kid) is beyond me. Maybe bowling? I thought about buying a …
Recently I came across Zoho. I have been a big fan of Google Docs for some time. Well not the documents exactly since they lose a lot of formatting from richer applications. But the spreadsheet program has been very useful. But for several reasons I want to move some of my computing away from Google. …
Hee hee… some time back I looked into a job with Google. Recently they contacted me. Now I am not job-hunting this week but it never hurts to see what the market is up to, right? I mean maybe someone will want to dump truckloads of cash and stock options in my driveway , right… …
I came across this article this morning by Cory Doctorow. I enjoy Cory’s writing; I don’t always agree but I usually wind up thinking about it. Today though his article left out a very critical subject around filtering: we need a solution for keeping kids safe. I’m not [necessarily] talking about filtering or about schools …