More Good News

Just when I thought I’d had all the good news I could handle, I got another bulletin. My Assistant Principal took me aside and asked me what I wanted to do next year. “Work here,” I said. “Would a continuing contract be OK with you?” he asked. A continuing contract means that I am a Read the full article…

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Where Getting Up Early Got Me

Getting up earlier allows me to take the bus to work: I can read my book, listen to music, and bypass traffic jams. Despite the fact that I make two connections from my house to the school, my travel time is only about 5 minutes longer than when I drove. Plus, I save a couple hundred dollars on my insurance by taking off the work-use rider, and I’m unaffected by the spiralling price of oil. Before I went to public transit, I considered these benefits; while the idea made me happy, the reality has contributed to my contentment more than I could have anticipated.

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ThinkFree.com: The Office Software Suite– Online!

Today, a company unveiled a productivity suite (word processor, spreadsheet, and slideshow) that you use entirely online. ThinkFree.com not only makes all three products available in your web browser, they offer Microsoft Office compatibility and 1 GB of storage space absolutely free.

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ATF Defeats Student Ninja

Thanks to vigilant Yoursinwriting.com reader Michaeleen, who emailed me a link to a shocking news story involving one of my favourite things: the age-old feud between Pirates and Ninjas.

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Ratings are Back Out!

OK, it looks like that nice simple rating system I found only works if you log in as a Newsgator.com member. I didn’t notice this during testing because a cookie on my browser keeps me logged in all the time. And having to log in to rate something just sucks.

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The Making of a Morning Person (Day 21)

Two beneficial side effects have come out of this attempt:

  1. My base wake time has moved back by an hour, and I comfortably (and often automatically) get out of bed by 6am.
  2. I have an entirely new intimacy with my alarm clock. I now understand how the Nap function and the Snooze timer work. And oh how I use them.

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Rating is Back!

Go! Clicky-clicky! After you read each post, just click whatever star tickles your fancy. A one is fine, if that’s what it deserves,

Ed’s Note: Many will be deserving.

and I’ll follow along and see what’s hot and what’s… well, less thermally gifted. Nobody said I don’t pander to the masses!

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A (nother) Fresh Start

A web host is essentially a landlord for virtual space; where a landlord provides shelter, power, and water, a web host provides hard drive space, email, and makes sure the site stays “up.” A server going down is the equivalent to having your power go out, and the worst possible (but most common) result is that anyone trying to visit your web site gets an unintelligible error message, and thinks your site has folded, or that you are incompetent.

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Apologies to the Explorers

It seems I got a bit carried away. In the heat of redesign and late night geeking, I didn’t test my layout in both major browsers: Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE). I use Firefox almost exclusively, and like everything smart and standard, the new design concept doesn’t work in IE.

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How To Use RSS

In response to a few questions from friends, I’ve written a short article about what Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is, and how to use it. This one aspect of online geeking saves me many hours a week, and you don’t have to be an ubernerd to use it.

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