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Who is the Most Influential Technologist of this Century?
Last night I finally got round to watching a documentary about Steve Jobs. The guy was a genius. But the film made a claim, that he was the most influential technologist of the last century. Really? I think that’s a bold claim, and when I think about it, I am…
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Export Data from Google Drive with Takeout
For a while now I have been looking for a good tool to backup very large folders from Google Drive. I have wanted to burn a DVD as backup. I had previously come across the Data Liberation Front, and now it seems its been incorporated into the Google feature set…
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Tartan Sweeps in Regatta for Lake Champlain
Well… ok, maybe not quite… Last weekend was the Regatta for Lake Champlain, a fundraising pursuit race held in Burlington, Vermont. Having read so much that the 70′s Tartan 41 was a hot race boat of the time, I was desperately interested to see how well it would fare against…
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Highrise, Please add an update feature
In my day job at the Upper Valley Educators Institute, we use Highrise to manage contact data. One thing I have found continually frustrating with this great CRM however, is it’s woeful lack of a contact update feature. There are several other web apps we use alongside Highrise, including Mailchimp…
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What Exactly is Standards-Based Teaching and Learning
If you are in the Education profession, you have been awash in various initiatives about Standards. Whether it’s the Common Core (a set of standards for math and english adopted by many states) or the NECAP’s (a narrowly focused student test being used to judge student, teacher and school performance),…
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That Sinking Feeling
Just for laughs, I thought I would spend a while figuring out that ACTUAL real life capacity of the pumps on Alchemy (as opposed to the ratings on the manufacturers box). The result were quite surprising. The process was to add a known quantity of water, in this case 5…
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Spot vs DeLorme InReach vs ACR ResQLink
Now that we have purchased our Tartan 41, we have the issue of getting it home. Currently in Annapolis, we have to bring it back to Lake Champlain. I’ll be posting about that trip very soon, but this post is about emergency beacons, PLB’s and SPOT devices. I want to…
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Possibly the Hardest Thing to do After Boston
Like me, you are probably angry after the events in Boston. You want justice. You want someone to blame. Perhaps the hardest thing to do is understand the other point of view why these two young men did what they did.
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How to Stop Rolling When Anchored
On of the most annoying things I find when anchored or moored is when the wind and swell are at ninety degrees to each other. We had this a few times in the BVI. What happens is that the wind causes your boat to lie broad on to the swell…
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Looking for an iPad App Developer
Are you an iPad App developer? UVEI is looking for someone to help develop a simple app for use in classrooms. Experience with integrating into Google Docs is also useful! If interested, please contact me at bnorth[at]uvei.edu
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