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| If you are here, it's probably because I found you here at Xanga. I couldn't maintain this blog, since I have 3 over at Blogger. Feel free to come over and see me there!
Bernies World
Podcast for Educators
Will Daddy Come Too?
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| OK- I said I needed a new car. No podcast today, because we spent the evening car shopping.That's where the toy comes in. We're looking at a Prius, the Toyota hybrid. Socially responsible, but about $5k more than we planned.Anyone out there have experience with the car? | | |
| I got a new PalmOne LifeDrive. What may be my favorite feature is turning out to be the built-in WiFi.I had been sitting in my recliner checking my email. No more burned thighs! Then I tried out the Google Mobile Reader to check out my favorite RSS feed blogs.Then I decided to update my blog. The Palm is not the sleekest tool for blogging. If I posted the unedited text, you would be reading "dosted" instead- my Graffiti 2 is rusty. However, it is portable, and I can sit where I want.It's fun, but not the best way to blog. I'll catch you up on the rest of my life at another time.UPDATED- Links added, since they are hard to do on the Palm! | | |
| I spent my first day in the office. It's not really an office, actually. Mayor Bloomberg would call it a bullpen. I don't have a problem with that, but it's different. After 3 years with a door, I will need to make changes.
We started with a crash course in what the department does. In short, it's a big job. There are 3 branches to the department:
- Data Management;
- Network maintenance; and
- Instructional Support.
I
asked for an organizational chart, but one does not exist, so I made
one. We'll see how it goes over today. It's more for me to know who
does what. I don't have to be a nuts and bolts guy, more of a leader
and planner.
I haven't gotten into the 'Funded Programs' aspect
of it, since the folks handling that are away until tomorrow. That
gives me a chance to catch up some more on the technology side, and to
familiarize myself (somewhat) with the consolidated application, which
sounds like a great thing, since it must implicitly simplify through
consolidation. If that's true, I want to know what it looked like
before, because this mother is 500 pages easy. I couldn't carry it
home, since I had too much to carry.
On the cool side, there is
a buyout for insurance, so I can waive the insurance and get a check
(great, because I have insurance) and I may be able to do something
similar with my phone. I get my new Palm today, I believe, and I got my
laptop home and seeing the net. Things may work out at this place.
On an even more personal note, I set up my iPod as an alarm clock, since my radio gets no station. Woke up to Acoustic Alchemy
and it was cool. I bought some $10 speakers at Staples and hooked them
to the iPod. I don't know how these other guys get away with charging
$100 bucks for an iPod alarm clock. A snooze button would be nice, but not worth the extra $80. (I did see it for $80 on Yahoo shopping, but still!)
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