Mr. Locke’s Classroom

Today’s viewing entertainment has been brought to you by Novell. I’m not a huge fan of SUSE Linux (Novell’s product) but we’re all on the same team, right? (I’ve been happily using edubuntu Linux for almost two months now).

But those are just for fun. If you really want to see [...]

Moving day. Not physically (although that will come soon, too) but digitally. Today I begin migrating all of my files, applications and other software from Windows to Linux. Documents are a snap — nothing to do, since I already use OpenOffice.org and they’re recognizable straight off my thumbrdrive. I already migrated [...]

Unless you know me very well, you have NO IDEA just how excited I am right now. It’s 1:00 in the morning, February 9th 2007. I’m sitting in my office at church (yes, I know–I should be home now). But here’s the thing. Right now, this moment, I am typing this [...]

If you don’t know what Web 2.0 is (or even if you do) you have to watch this–it’s awesome. If a picture says a thousand words, then an embedded video about embedded videos and hypertext and XML and blogging and content management and interactive websites and open source software and mashups and…you know what? [...]

I’ve already posted about one of my favorite new websites, 43things. Today I ran across another “thing” (i.e. goal) that someone else had written, and I added it to my own list:
Make my dad proud of me.
When my dad passed away in 1998, I spoke (at the memorial service) of how my [...]

Thanks to Annie for pointing this out to me. Joho the Blog says:

The Sunlight-Berkman confab on providing more access to more information about politics and government was terrific.

And then:

Most of the attendees are progressives, although some are non-partisan. But even the people behind the non-partisan services tend to be left-leaning. Yet what these [...]

This is way better than a New Year’s Resolution — it’s a year-long, life-long tool. 43 Things is a website where you can

Discover & Decide things you REALLY want to do in this life
Find other people who want to do similar things
Share your goals with the world (how’s that for accountability?
Keep track of [...]