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Archive for November, 2007

What is a LoudTwitter?
November 11th, 2007

LoudTwitter is a service that allows you to automatically post your Twitter comments to your blog.

Blogged with Flock

Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
November 11th, 2007

Interesting views on Facebook strategy and the views of Gideon Yu, Facebook CFO over at the Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab blog.

Blogged with Flock

Two things that annoy me about my Mac
November 10th, 2007

1. About 2 in 5 attempts to burn a CD tend to fail.
2. The battery life is poor.

I am trying to burn a CD-R for a friend. I took some photographs at his daughter’s wedding this afternoon. I wished to to burn three CD-Rs of the photographs. So far 1 CD has succeeded. Two have failed. I shall see if the next one fails. Why does this happen in a relatively new MacBook Pro 15″ laptop?

Postscript. 3 CD-Rs succeeded. 3 CD-Rs failed. Is that a 50% success rate or a 50% failure rate? Is the glass half full or half empty? They were imation CDRs. The hardware is an ATA HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA burner.

ExploreLearning – Interactive Math and Science Simulations.
November 10th, 2007

I remember discovering this web site a number of years ago, ExploreLearning – Interactive Math and Science Simulations. I stumbled across it again today. Although I am a history teacher I have always been fascinated by astronomy, fractals, and the like. Enjoy!

How Google Works
November 10th, 2007

This interactive page nicely illustrates how Google works. There are informative mouseover elements within the presentation.