This semester, I am giving the 2nd year students a weekly blog assignment. Here is the post on that.  I am not entirely optimistic that this will be successful by any reasonable standard, but who said anything about being reasonable?
I just finished reading “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. In it, he extols the [...]

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“Hi, my name is Patrick and I’m a guy-who-doesn’t-implement-enough-redundancy-in-his-back-up-routine-oholic. It’s been 11 hours since my last slip.”
Only 2 weeks ago I had to reinstall the OS on the teacher computer in my lab. Before doing so, I asked the room “technician” to open up one of the network drive’s permission to allow me to back [...]

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After a long year of seething, unspoken resentments, the local teachers finally get their chance at bursting some waigouren bubble at out annual fair.

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I dont know if there is some sort of netiquette concerning length of comments on other people’s posts. I wrote a comment on a Daniel post, which turned out to be quite long. I also had some trouble uploading it, so I put it here as well. Here it is:
I really enjoyed this post by Daniel (and [...]

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