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Ah Facebook, How do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.

admin | February 25, 2010

So I just read a good post about why Twitter is so much better than Facebook.  And I don’t really want to offend all my FB friends but I’m going to risk it because I hate it so bad. Friends don’t get me wrong, it’s not you I hate, it’s Facebook.  Please just go get [...]

School District Spying on Students… at Home – Enough is Enough

admin | February 19, 2010

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/18/district-spied-students-parents-using-school-issued-laptops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fscitech+%2528Text+-+SciTech%2529
Rarely do I read a news story and feel my blood pressure rise.  But this got it going.  I started to write this post and realized how worked up I was. I saved it as a draft and decided to come back when I had cooled down. I have cooled down now, and it has [...]

George Washington’s Rules of Civilty

admin | February 16, 2010

I have always had a kind of sixth sense of social civility.  I may not follow it that often, and when I don’t I have this feeling that I’m doing something wrong.   For example, I don’t like to walk between two people that are talking, even if they are standing on opposite sides of a [...]

Day and Night

admin | February 11, 2010

I read a lot of business columns. Most of the time I find wise people with good advice.  Like this guy.
http://www.tompeters.com/cool_friends/content.php?note=010640.php
I had a boss once (Curt Porrit) that told me that “the reason business exists is to make life better for people.  The question then becomes ‘does it make life better for the few at [...]

Ambitions

admin | February 10, 2010

I have a friend that is taking a class on guitar making and he is making his own custom acoustic guitar.  I have the honor of designing the head for him.  A relatively small task but an important one.  And I was thinking about it, “How would I love to build my own guitar?”  Man, [...]

The Novelist

admin | February 7, 2010

Jonathan is 9 years old.  And he reads books.  Lots of books.  And he reads them fast.  I was worried that he skipped over things he didn’t understand because he reads faster than I do.  I wanted to know what kind of books he was reading so I tried to read the books that he [...]

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