Audio and Video supplementing and enhancing education

This is more than a trend.

I see audio and video enhancing the education system.

Imagine being able to go back years later into your education library and review a lecture.

I think there are issues but the long term benefits make the journey to get there worthwhile.

my 2 cents.

in reference to: MediaShift . Is University of Missouri's iPod Touch 'Requirement' Fair? | PBS (view on Google Sidewiki)

Tying the debt owed to employees to Nortel's patent pool makes sense

Too bad it can't be done in the case of Nortel but maybe the concept of a lien being able to be placed on patents is a concept of today's world that needs to be put in place.

in reference to: Virtual Nonsense » Lien on Nortel Patents (view on Google Sidewiki)

bring the new generation to the music of the older generation on their terms

It's a good thing

in reference to: PC World Canada Slideshows - The Beatles: Rock Band--Stylish, Nostalgic, and a Blast to Play - Index (view on Google Sidewiki)

I am getting a new toy in a most unique way

A buddy of mine dropped by asking if he could buy my old turntable for a local radio station.

It is one of these. I have a limited connection to it. I lusted after one while in high school for my DJ business. I never got one, they were too much $$ back then. I did snag one at a yard sale about 5 or more years ago.

I paid $5.00 for it.

I've used it, maybe four times. It works well but other than for nostalgia, i need it not.

I also have a quite good dual that was my brothers.

So, $300.00 was the offer and $300.00 is what i accepted.

Besides bragging rights for one of the best yard sale electronics finds, I can now bring home anything without getting the 'look'.

So i sell this,



























and buy this:

Jeep is back - I got the new registration 3 weeks ago

When old school becomes new school

I managed to shoe horn windows 7 onto a Compaq TC1000 tablet pc circa 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_TC1000


http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=hp+tc1000&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DBCA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=1496245053404795104&ei=BaKzSsixMpHplAe5gszzDg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4#ps-sellers


It runs, very slowly by modern hardware standards but not bad compared to how it rans when new with XP Tablet edition.

There is one hardware problem that is a show stopper. The digitizer for the tablet doesn't work. HP drivers for XP don't work. I found a Gateway driver than installs and while windows is happy, they digitizer/pen is useless.

So I fresh installed with back to XP Tablet 2005. It is my retro computer now. I call it my G-Touch. It runs ie well and supports my igoogle page nciely. Email, calendar, rss, piscasa.

and it has a feature not found today.

a built-in compact flash card reader

retro supports my D-SLR

all the new stuff requires me to carry a usb cable or reader & cable


when i go to starbucks, all the cool kids with have either netbooks or widescreen lugabouts


but i know i will be on to something with this retro computing when my teenager asks me if she can take it to school

btw, it scored a 1.0 rating but in fact it was so slow that windows could not rate it.

To Tweet the incredible tweet

Like i get twitter but i don't get it.

I miss the part where a guy
with nothing to say and
with nothing said
gets over 15,000 people
to follow
what he doesn't say
and hasn't said.

Maybe, they know
that one day
sometime soon
he will
tweet the incredible tweet.

I want to be a rockstar

Nickelback nails it. We all just wanna be big rockstars.

I decided tonight to browse through the world of http://www.luxist.com
and dream a little dream for me.

I'll share what catches my eye.

Take a gander over at http://facebook.com/neternity with the rest
of my facebooky stuff.

Or just gander at my shared items page at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/neternity.

Off to dream .....