Wednesday, August 28, 2002

More on School Boards

by alec on August 28, 2002

And on the school boards:

  • Witmer orders school-board takeover. TORONTO — Education Minister Elizabeth Witmer sent supervisors to take over the Toronto and Hamilton school boards yesterday, as the latest Ipsos-Reid poll reported the Ontario government is winning early approval from voters for confronting trustees over spending.
  • 4.7MM cut from Ottawa schools.  The supervisor is going to work slashing special ed, forcing schools to share principals etc.  The shared principal idea is whacky.  If there isn’t enough work for one principal at one school, then amalgamate schools.
  • And Randall Denley on why Teacher raises won’t solve the problems.

  

Checking the Fuel Tank with a Lighter

by alec on August 28, 2002

Motorist facing charges after using cigarette lighter to check fuel tank.  Yep… you read it here.   

Understanding Weblogs

August 28, 2002

Understanding weblogs. I’ve been spending the past several weeks messing around with weblogs. Last week, the light bulb went on: I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for personal knowledge management as well as for public communication. (published in tweney report, 2002-08-28)  

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Mediabolic Wins

August 28, 2002

Software deal continues convergence fight. Marantz, Denon cut a licensing deal for Mediabolic’s convergence software. The move points to a fight between consumer-electronics firms and PC makers over home-entertainment turf. I saw the Mediabolic software at Connections 2001 in Seattle.  Tremendously exciting — the solution that we were trying to build at Microsoft at the [...]

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Radio Comments

August 28, 2002

Hallelujah!  I finally figured out how to turn on the comment feature.    

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