Archive for September, 2006

This site is back. Me, too! Gladwell’s The Risk Pool

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

This site (edublogs.org) was down for a while, causing much consternation to those teachers and students who depend on it.
Didn’t affect me much.  Been up to my armpits in alligators with the usual start-of-the-year school stuff.  Now I hope to have more time to read and write….
The Risk Pool: In a recent New Yorker article, [...]

Microsoft Vista ReadyBoost

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

From a Paul Thurrott SuperSite post:
It sounded like science fiction the first time I heard about it: Windows Vista includes a feature called ReadyBoost that lets you use a USB 2.0-based flash memory device–typically a USB memory key–to speed up the performance of virtually any Vista PC.
This is pretty amazing. Take a flash drive, [...]

Apres Upgrade

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

When I just entered Site Admin to clean up a mess in the middle of this blog, I was prompted to update the database. I did so, and while such things are generally a figment of my imagination, the back-end (the site management stuff) seems a lot quicker. I wonder what [...]