Bruce's Blog

Funny how something as simple as teaching your daughter to use a leaf blower can reinforce and confirm ideas about learning any new skill.  This last week my daughter saw me “playing” with a leaf blower and showed some real interest in trying it out...

I occasionally break down and have to write about something off-topic that is wearing on my mind.  One such thing is school funding, and that is all over the news lately.  So, quick post – click the back-button now if you were hoping for something more...

Here’s a not-so-hypothetical situation – one night when 15 or so kids are running around the house you happen to leave your laptop in a very public location near where the Wii games are underway.  Inevitably the laptop gets used as a coaster and soon after the...

My family has had a great time at ArtPrize these last few weeks visiting as many of the different venues and artists as possible. The final vote is upon us this week and I feel strongly enough about one of the top 10 that I am going to make my intended vote public and...

So I have been looking at printers for home since my old HP multifunction printer died in the spring, and used some birthday money and a great sale at OfficeMax to get a new one.  I decided on a color laser printer, the Brother HL-4040CDN. Now you might be...

The last book on the Summer 2009 reading list was Fearless by Max Lucado. This book was very timely for me and was a nice break from technical and fiction books. Fearless is a book by author and pastor Max Lucado out of San Antonio which attempts (and succeeds in my...

GR Social Marketing (grsm) on Twittertags: no_tagGRSM is tomorrow, 12pm @ the GRCF building. @spearia is presenting. Take some time, learn in the small groups after the presentationPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Where’s Lou » Blog Archive » Spark output cachingPotential caching option for MVCtags: MVC, ASP.NET, CachingPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Free Samples!: :tags: Clip, Art, VectorPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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...

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 Dell 2100 blog...

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...

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...

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....