Allowing for System Failures and the Unexpected
Three things you can count on in life: death, taxes, and your computer will fail. As a computer teacher, my lessons rely on 23 boxes that need to work for most of my objectives to be met. As part of...
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What happens when you invite one person to dinner in San Antonio, NECC 2008? 52 diners show up! No this is not a bad dream, it is a reality. Thanks to Deb Boisvert for this inspiration!...
Around this time last year, I wrote a post Challenging the Trumpets in Atlanta that I had sought out this evening because I think it remains critical for those attending NECC in San Antonio. For me, I can only hope...
If you say you have writer's block, I say "snap out of it"!
This is a picture of the Mobile Quarantine Facility built by NASA for astronauts returning from the Moon. It’s basically a modified Airstream trailer. The idea was to isolate the astronauts until it was determined that they didn’t have...
It took me all of about three minutes to decide to order Disrupting Class by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson. Computers, education, and change? How fast can I get it? But the review I read...