I watched a video yesterday that really got me thinking. How much of what we think we know, do we actually know? The video was one of the really excellent TED presentations. If you haven’t previously checked out the TED presentations, then you...
Topics: Culture, Education, Failure, Knowledge, School

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Saw the above comic on XKCD and it really struck me. Don’t you ever feel that way? I do.A lot of the time I hear people complaining about this or that policy, and I think to myself, yeah that’s a problem. But at the same time I think...
Topics: Contentment, Culture, Happiness, My Life, Protest, XKCD

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This past weekend we had a hurricane/tropical storm hit the Pensacola area. Now Pensacola is no stranger to hurricanes. In the recent past we’ve had several large ones. Ivan and Denis both caused a significant amount of damage to the area. But this.
Topics: Complacency, Emergency, Hurricane, My Life, Panic, Preparation, Storm

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I just spent the day setting up a new family website. I’m using wordpress mu as the back end for it. The cool thing about using wordpress mu, rather than standard wordpress, is that you can set up each user with their own site using subdomains.So each..
Topics: Administration, Family, Internet, New Site, Wordpress

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I finally did it. I gave in to the pressure and bought an iPhone. I’ve had a Blackberry for a while now, but I finally decided to switch to the iPhone. The push email ability and the new 3G network were big factors in the decision.
Topics: Me, My Life, New Phone

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