With the advent of the Stablr concept, I’ve gotten a huge amount of interest from the general community. People have been throwing suggestions, ideas, and their talent my way. The good part of this is, I’ve fleshed out so many important aspects about Stablr its not funny. The unfortunate part, is I didn’t have the [...]
This week I’m in Chicago for PHP|Tek 2008. I’ll have to post separately regarding it, but I’m having quite a lot of fun. Unfortunately, the Internet, WiFi, and Twitter are all seeming to have serious issues with handling this much traffic in the same place. Twitter was up and down, having “Techincal Issues.” One of [...]
With the FCAT and No Child Left Behind, schools are heavily pressured to double their efforts as a school, and improve their scores and ratings. This seems like a good idea, but there are a few idiotic things about it. Doing well is rewarded, doing poorly is punished. Receiving high scores on the FCAT gets [...]
When in the 8th grade at Sanford Middle School, I was already a fluent typist and had taken a few classes to prove it. In high-school, I wanted straight-away to start in web-design classes, but was required to take Business Systems Technology (where you learn Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). I opted to take an exemption [...]
A conversation between Christine and I (prompted by her mother and she) prompted me to think about why school hasn’t captured my attention, like so many expect it should, and I came up with this: I don’t generally set goals that are related to school because school has failed me, and I shall candidly offer [...]