I hate my crappy Cavalier
I’ve been renting a 2005 Cavalier for the past 4-5 days, and I am not impressed. In fact, I am seriously unimpressed.
Why? Read on …
Beautiful sewer covers (and more)
Beautify manhole covers and a couple of others things I noticed in and around the 2005 FETC conference in Orlando ….
Funky Florida Grass
Grass in Florida is very odd for someone from the west coast of Canada.
It’s thick, big, chunky … very different from the smaller-bladed, delicate stuff we have near Vancouver.
I feel like sitting down beside and yelling “FORK! SPOON! FORK! SPOON!”
That won’t be funny if you haven’t see the appropriate ad for Campell’s thick and chunky soup.
Cocoa Beach
I’m in Orlando for the Florida Educational Technology Conference, and am staying over the weekend for some client visits.
So on Saturday I decided to drive to Cocoa Beach on the west side of Florida, just south of Cape Canaveral ….
FETC: Fact Fluency: The Phonics of Mathematics
I took in an excellent eye-opening session by Ted Hasselbring from the University of Kentucky today on Fact Fluency: The Phonics of Mathematics.
He argued very persuasively from many research projects that he and his colleagues have conducted that, just as we have phonics in reading to develop literacy fluency, we need a similar program for mathematics.
FETC: Strategies for Successful Presentations
I attented a GREAT session at FETC on Thursday: Stategies for Successful Presentations.
The speaker, Lynnell Burmark, was witty and insightful … and, as you might anticipate given the title, the visuals were really, really good.
Apple close to winning 60,000 laptop deal in Atlanta
I’m in Orlando at FETC. Apple has a decent-sized booth here, and I spoke to one of the senior people at the booth.
According to the source, Apple is very close to winning a deal with Cobb County in Atlanta, which has been negotiating with Apple, IBM, and Dell.
Gathering of the faithful: all Apple all the time
It was very interesting to be in the free wireless area at FETC: almost all the people there were Mac users.
I had to get a shot of three guys that I started talking with … that’s my laptop in the foreground. The middle guy works for Apple, and he didn’t like it that in my first shot his head was MIA behind the first guy, so I had to take the shot again.
FYI, wireless access throughout the rest of Orange County Convention Center is very definitely unfree … I tried to jump online during a session and got the now-you-must-pay page. The price? $24.95 US per day!
Unbelievable. At $10 I’d do it, but this is fiscal rapine. Seriously, I’m certain they’d make more money at a lower pricepoint. More people would buy it.
But the current prices are crazy. Wireless access is very cheap to set up; putting the price in the stratosphere only ensures the Orange County Convention Center won’t make their money back.
Is it really that bad, Sun?
I know Sun Microsystems has been having a bad day for the past few years, but is it really this bad?
Cool stuff at FETC
Whenever I see something cool at FETC, I snap a picture of it. Here’s four products that I was impressed with, for varying reasons ….
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