Kids on Computers is planning a trip to the Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico area in June. If you can, please join us! If you can’t, please consider donating to help the labs we’ll be working on. Most of us will be going down for a week or so. There are travel stipends available for those […]
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With an unprecedented number of friends visiting New Orleans in the next couple of months, I put together my top list of things to do. Spend evenings on Frenchmen Street rather than Bourbon Street. Walk down Royal and check out the antiques. Have the double chocolate bread pudding at Red Fish. (We usually split an
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Kids on Computers is planning a Kids on Computers Summit in May in Huajuapan de Leon and we need your help! We have had a lot of success setting up labs in the Huajuapan de Leon area and getting local community involved. Our first school, 18 de Marzo, counts on a lot of parental support.
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Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. … Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror) (Wikipedia) Right after 9/11, I flew to Australia for a vacation I had been planning for almost a year. Many people asked me if
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In case you were wondering where I was the week of August 2nd, here are some pictures. 14 of us spent the week on this boat. (The one in the background!) 6 adults, 4 teenagers, 3 ten year olds and 1 three year old. We had what we’d brought along and the lake and the
I’m staying at Keble College in Oxford, attending the Transfer Summit. It reminds me a lot of Rice University. (But not of Texas!) Rice University’s colleges were obviously modeled after Oxford University’s colleges with buildings around a quad of grass. This is Keble College. It’s gorgeous. Unfortunately, my room also resembles my dorm room at
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I originally got interested in barefoot shoes when I read an article about the health benefits of going barefoot. (I thought it was a New York Times article, but it wasn’t this recent one about running barefoot.) I also read a study that said that the more expensive your running shoes, the more likely you
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I travel a lot and since my kids are little and I don’t want Frank to go crazy, I try to make the trips as short as possible. Which means I often travel 8 time zones away for just a couple of days. I’ve tried lots of different ways of coping with jet lag on
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Several cities in Spain now have a public bike system. You pay 20 euros a year and you can use any of the bikes for half an hour for free. You pay half a euro for every half an hour after that for up to two hours. In cities like Zaragoza it is working so
One year in Barcelona we lived in an old apartment building that had a very narrow spiral staircase. And no elevator. You moved in furniture by draping ropes over pulleys at the top of the building and hauling it up and through the windows. Now they’ve gotten high tech. I saw these guys with this
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