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 the [...]
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 the schools [...]
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 [...]
Anyone ever felt too grown up?
I spent this evening with several of my friends at a coffee shop listening to musicians, and while they were enjoying themselves, I was too busy thinking about next month’s growth and legal issues of my hosting business.
Here I am, 16 years old, already with a profitable business, thinking about [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I read an article regarding PHP|Tek’s sign ups already meeting 40% full, and how the other 60% will be filled very soon, and that if anyone was interested in going, they should sign up soon. I took this information, and talked to my parents about it.
They were concerned about band’s final concert [...]
