Cool Technology in School

My kids’ school has been gradually installing smartboards in the classrooms. These are the computer connected touch screens like they use on CNN. Peter told me that yesterday his 5th Grade class had

Claus

Palm updates Santa and makes him hip to the sounds of a cover of RUN DMC’s holiday classic. From Ad Age blog, Songs for Soap [http://adage.com/songsforsoap/post?article_id=

Songs in the Key of Hanukkah

Here’s an urban take on the dreidel song from Erran Baron Cohen [http://newlinerecords.com/hanukkah/index.html], who scored the music for his brother’s movie Borat [http://www.imdb.com/

I Made the Front Page

Last week’s interview with the News and Observer [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1334339.html] was included in an article that appeared on the front page of the print edition and

Southern Village 5K

Photo by John Rees using Chris Slydel’s [http://www.flickr.com/photos/14436176@N06/3109098090/] camera Today I ran in the Southern Village 5K. It was very hilly 3.1 mile race.