by Bruce | Jul 18, 2009 | General
I first saw the game Kubb [Wikipedia Link] [Kubbin Link] (pronounced k-oo-b) a few years ago and it caught my interest. My interpretation of the game is that it was invented many many years ago by the Vikings in the islands of Sweden. They had time...
by Bruce | Jun 29, 2009 | General
Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook Sold in More Than 500 US School Districts – Dell sees successful launch of Atom-based netbook – Softpediatags: 2100, netbookDell Latitude 2100 “kidbook” – Detailed First Impressions and TipsGetting some good feedback on the...
by Bruce | Jun 15, 2009 | General
NECC is the National Educational Computing Conference put on yearly by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) (http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/). This is the group that sets national standards for technology in education, and brings...
by Bruce | May 3, 2009 | General
Since Windows 7 was released to developers last week I have installed it on my two personal machines – laptop and desktop. In the short time I have used it in both environments I have been so pleased with it that it is worth noting. But I realized that...
by Bruce | Apr 22, 2009 | General
I’ve been wanting to post this for going on two weeks, but also wanted to blog details and more info. I wanted to get this posted now with a link to the presentation materials and code, and then follow up with some individual posts where I wanted to add detail....
by Bruce | Jan 14, 2009 | General
I don’t know how it happened that all of the books that I requested from the library, and pre-ordered from Amazon, all seemed to show up in the same 7 day period. It doesn’t help that that was the same period of time I was at the CodeMash 2009 conference, and...
