Technology
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I jailbroke my Kindle today, mostly because I discovered KOReader and got curious about what else the hardware could do. Now I have an open-source reader, more control over my books, reading statistics, and a lot of settings I don’t understand yet. Which is usually how the interesting projects start.
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Finals week in an independent school is a strange mixture of exhaustion, ceremony, logistics, and controlled chaos. Between AP exams, commencement events, MacBook collections, foundation repairs at home, and a neighborhood power grid apparently held together with dental floss and a prayer, this week has felt like an extended exercise in keeping systems, and myself,…
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Every movie I ever saw and all the books I ever read about its takeover are only ever from the perspective of those living post transition or in a very rapid development process. In reality this will probably take generations and make lots of people poor and cripple society for generations before the mobs take…
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Yesterday was a day. Not just any day, the kind of day that makes you want to crawl back into bed, hug your favorite blanket, and whisper, “Not today, world.” Because while my network was behaving itself (thank you, firewall gods), the same couldn’t be said for one of our servers managed by a vendor.…
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yai = yet another initiative the phones are being banished! We are finally pulling the metaphorical trigger on students with phones in school. they will be required to turn in phones as soon as they enter the building, and they won’t be allowed to pick them up again until they leave campus. I have a…