This week a fellow member of the faculty where I work suggested that our use of Open Office with students was actually prohibiting those students from getting employment when they left our school.
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Accu-wrath
Bill Maher strikes the funny bone again with the Accu-Wrath weather forecast.
Surprise flight
This morning I was at Olean Airport delivering a computer system I had rebuilt and installed Ubuntu 7.04 on. I decided to wait until the gentleman who donated the computer arrived from his home.
Nonviolence invites us to…
I first read this a year ago and it is true or truer now than then. Nonviolence invites us: * To learn to recognize and respect the sacred in every person, including in ourselves, and in every part of creation. The acts of the nonviolent person help to free this sacredness in the opponent from … Read more
Good government
I just finished reading Scott Adams post on “Best Government Ever.” It’s quite a contrast from the pablum we are served up everyday here in the United States. Click here to read what Scott has written.
Leaders? What Leaders?
Last week in a phone conversation with my Mother I learned of a new book by an old favorite. Lee Iacocca who along with Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Congress rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy has authored a new book. Iacocca was a breath of fresh air twenty years ago and at eighty-two years young he’s still full of vitality.
456 Billion dollars and counting
The Iraq supplemental that Congress (the American people) and the Bush Allies are haggling over will add 124 billion dollars to the cost of the Iraq War.
Solo flight
Today was a day that I had been looking forward to and afraid of at the same time. It was my first solo flight in nearly two years. Today was one of those picture perfect days in Western New York.
Quo vadis Domine?
Tonight we watched the 1975 classic movie, “Oh God”, starring John Denver and George Burns. As I sat here with my wife viewing this wonderful story I was reminded how Scotian the movie actually is.