Last year I blogged about having a "Buy Nothing Christmas". (For clarification, we didn't actually do this last year, but I blogged about it.) Well, times are tough this year, especially for a couple members of my family. So, we (my sister, brother, and I) decided to have a "Buy Nothing Christmas" … [Read more...]
Waveplace finishes pilot program in Nicaragua
November 17, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Over the summer, three volunteers from Waveplace spent three months at Campo Alegria teaching children from our elementary school in Buenos Aires how to use the XO computers, furnished by One Laptop per Child. The course involved 22 children learning to create visual stories through computer … [Read more...]
Are you tweeting?
November 10, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Recently, I've had lots of conversations about social media with my non-technology friends. Everything from the ins and outs of Facebook to the purpose of Twitter is being discussed over casuals dinners, at the kids' soccer games, at the bus stop, and even in the grocery store. This tells me two … [Read more...]
Time to come together
November 5, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
We all knew that regardless of yesterday's election, half of the American people would be disappointed today. And so it is. But as we told our children this morning, we must put the negative campaigns behind us and support the man who now is poised to lead this country. But over the past eight … [Read more...]
Unscientific redistribution of wealth experiment
November 4, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Note: I received this via email, and decided to share it with you. I am not the author. Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read "Vote Obama, I need the money." I laughed. Once in the restaurant my server had on a "Obama 08" tie, again I laughed as he had given away … [Read more...]
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