MrWoodleigh

I’m re-reading Emma. I can’t believe how clueless she is!

The New York Times ran an article in the Education section entitled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops (free subscription required) that documents instances of school districts (and one independent school) retiring their laptop programs after they failed to deliver results.
This make sense to me, not because laptop programs are a bad idea (says [...]

Musings on a snowy day…
It’s crazy how much better my networking experience is at home than it is here on the campus where I work.   It’s that way for a lot of people now.   Of course, it used to be quite the opposite.  You were stuck with dial-up at home and would head into the [...]

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame writes entertainingly and sometimes sagely in his Dilbert.Blog.
His recent entry on the Israeli-Palistinian conflict is worth reading.
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I guess everybody but me has figured this out, but blogs and social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) provide all the web presence just about any normal person needs.   I considered putting wikis in the list, but no — too geeky.   It’s the blog and the personal profile, baby.   They just work for people.  No [...]

From Rachel Cooke’s "Is weight the new race?":

The first person I heard make a direct comparison between fat and race was Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best-selling The Tipping Point and Blink. At an event in London, a member of the audience asked him what subjects he thought were hot. Gladwell, off the top of [...]

We are staying on Ditch (or Canal) Way, Via del Fosso. A ditch, maybe 8 or 10 feet wide, runs down the middle of the street; as ditches go, it’s not bad. Its walls are made of brick. The walls rise above street level and are capped with concrete. You can [...]

I’m watching soccer on TV and I’m interested, but somehow not so riveted that I can’t write at the same time.  Anyway, the game hasn’t started yet — I guess it’s the same pre-game nonsense we sit through in the States.   At the moment, an army of commentators are talking at us. One of the [...]