I recently read a list of Clarence Fisher’s top ten tech tools, which made me wonder a bit about my own. The list is very fluid and can change dramatically from one year to the next but here’s my list of current tech tools. Some of these are personal tools, some are work related [...]

Being the D’Arcy wannabe that I am, I’m following his lead into the land of simplicity. Maybe this is the blog equivalent of cleaning up the yard and putting away all the summer decorations before winter comes. 

I’ve changed to a cleaner theme (Blueprint) and fewer widgets on the page. I’ve considered finding a [...]

This is a repost from my work blog:

Here’s a short video from the very clever folks at Common Craft on the topic of web search strategies:

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There are many other good search strategies. Here’s a video of Patrick Norton interviewing Google Engineer Matt Cuts, who describes various Google search strategies.

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I wish there was a program like Slife for the iPod touch. Slife is a really cool (and possibly quite frightening) application for Mac OS X (Leopard only) that tracks your time using different applications, at web sites and working with various documents. I’ve only just downloaded it, but I’m interested in seeing how [...]

I’m lucky enough to be teaching one of the best classes ever this semester – Theory of Knowledge for my school’s International Baccalaureate program. ToK (as it is fondly known) deals with three fundamental questions – What is knowledge? What do we mean when we say that we know something? What are different ways of [...]

The Girl™ is taking two dance classes this year – ballet and musical theatre. She has taken dance classes for the past 5 years. But this year is different. This year is a milestone in her life. This year, she has to get to dance class on her own.

Before anyone turns me in to [...]