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My Mac "Switcher" Experience
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on May 31st, 2006
After some initial trouble with my credit card, I was finally able to order my first Mac from the Apple Canada webstore: the new Apple MacBook. I waited on this purchase as long as I could, and it has paid off: the MacBook, announced only two weeks ago, has all the power of the MacBook Pro, at almost half the cost.
I wanted this machine in time to show my students what this Mac thing is all about. Most of them have never seen another operating system, and I want them to experience a Mac in all its glory before they make their next purchasing decision.
More Good News
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on May 25th, 2006
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…
Where Getting Up Early Got Me
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on May 25th, 2006
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.
ThinkFree.com: The Office Software Suite– Online!
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on April 24th, 2006
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.
ATF Defeats Student Ninja
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on April 12th, 2006
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.
The Making of a Morning Person (Day 21)
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on April 12th, 2006
Two beneficial side effects have come out of this attempt:
- My base wake time has moved back by an hour, and I comfortably (and often automatically) get out of bed by 6am.
- 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.
A (nother) Fresh Start
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on April 12th, 2006
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.
Apologies to the Explorers
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on April 5th, 2006
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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