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Archive for April, 2008


Central Oregon Softball

This will make your day -

Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky had never hit a home run in her career. Central Washington senior Mallory Holtman was already her school’s career leader in them. But when a twist of fate and a torn knee ligament brought them face to face with each other and face to face with the end of their playing days, they combined on a home run trot that celebrated the collective human spirit far more than individual athletic achievement.

Read Full Story by Graham Hayes from ESPN

Can you say “cool - free - graphics”?

You gotta love websites like iconbuffet. What could be better? They ask for nothing. They do good work. I can use it for free. Who could ask for more?

Web Development in Middle School

I finally think I’m doing it right. First semester I taught web site development via tables and MS FrontPage. What a clunky, cumbersome bunch of goo. This semester I switched to straight file editing with Notepad and all kids used .css based layouts. Definitely a better fit ;)

Our work flow went something like this: First we read through Web Page Development. This page gives an overview of what it takes to get on the web plus a link that specifically discusses the Five Main Technologies used in web development. Kids work comes together when they cut their teeth Editing css and html on the Refresh template by Erwin Aligam. I hope to have some of their work posted by mid-May.

Check These Out

Open Google Earth (which is free), hit alt+ctrl+a and a really good flight simulator opens up. Need to have Google Earth 4.2.

Google Earth flight simulator

If Google is your home page, you may like to switch to Google Dark (recently renamed Dark Search) as a colorful alternative to Google.


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