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Why Blog?

Why not? For me I use it as my notebook on things of interest. Some entries are quick jots on a technology/book or other bit that I think I might refer to later. Others are more thoughtful, and offer me a chance to work out a thought drawing on recent reading and research. And I like the writing. I hope others find this of interest, but if not it still serves my needs. And when it stops doing that I’ll stop.

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At anevent apart

I am up in Boston at the 2008 An Event Apart conference. This is my third one. And after the other two, in each case, while I greatly enjoyed the event, I wasn’t sure I’d go the next year. But then I keep coming back. And I’m happy to be here again. Why?

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Block Cellphone spam

Great advice — I just set it up for my Verizon account — AT&T offers something similar. Sprint and T-Mobile offer some blocking features as well. How nice of David Pogue and the NYT to make sure we all know this!

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Students Speak out about the classroom

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LinkedIn for me

I thought I’d give linkedin a try — another one of these up and coming web 2.0 things. I still working on my profile, but here it is so far…

LinkedIn: Randall Rode

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Murphy’s Law

My younger son was working on a video project for class this week. Of course he’d left it all to the very last minute (much to his father’s annoyance.). He had his clips loaded into Premiere and Ileft him assembling things while I ran out with the other son on a quick errand. On arriving home all was not well. He’d lost some clips, went back to recapture them and the tape broke. His project was due in 11 hours and in shambles. And he asked why this had all happened to him.

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