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Again, wireless

A little more time with this wireless device (the Alphasmart Dana) is teaching me humility in technology, once again. I suspect that the key is finding something simple (like the Eudora browser I’m using currently) and then sticking with what works. We’ll see what happens as I try to extend this over the next week […]

Slow-going

At the office today—what I thought would be only this morning. So much for efficiency! I did get one syllabus printed and stuff ready to go be copied, and I did talk with two graduate students and a colleague, and I just have to remind myself that “inefficiency” often leads to a better work environment. […]

Chipping away

I’ve been chastened by the news today, Book Worm Crushed (will open new window). Time to clean my office!

Poking away

Sometimes there are huge strides or finishing points in projects, and at other times just wading and getting some work done is important. Today is one of those days: a Sunday, when there are loads of other things going on. So I’m poking away at various things, from syllabi to a proposal to a recommendation […]

Technology

I am both a technology user and a technology skeptic. I’ve just created my fourth (or maybe fifth?) weblog/journal (this here thing), imported entries from my prior work journals, and am likely to buy the nifty quasi-laptop I’m evaluating when the month is over.