Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

Perhaps I shouldn’t have blogged about it - I may have jinxed it. Sadly, the miraculous parting of the firewall that has allowed me to use Skype and Google Talk for the last two or three weeks appears to have come to an untimely end. On my return to my office today, I found neither […]

It’s been a great year. I’ve learned a lot, started a blog, moved it to a completely new platform (with permalinks and Feedburner feeds still intact, thank you very much!), been accepted to a Ph.D. program, welcomed a new baby girl into the world, and made some positive progress on our campus with respect to […]

Well, it looks like all has gone well with my transition to WordPress. I’d hoped to have everything up and running before switching over the DNS, but as an amateur (read: hack), I couldn’t figure out how to get the timing and linking right on that.  Thanks for your patience as I move over my […]

Because I’m deep into master schedule creation and have promised our teachers their tentative room and schedule assignments before they leave on Friday, I have not had a lot of time to post. But when I came across this little gem, I just couldn’t resist. It’s topical, it’s about education, and the best part is […]

A while back I was tagged by Scott McLeod to participate in the Simply Successful Secrets meme  group writing project. It all started with a post on the Today is That Day blog back on March 7, 2007.
When I wrote my post, I had no idea that I was participating in something so huge, but […]

I was saddened to read this quote from our district’s new provisioning plan:
"All computer systems deployed through the provisioning plans will be based on the Microsoft Windows platform.  Documents created with certain Mac OS applications may require conversion to be readable and/or usable with the new platform.  Users are encouraged to work with OIT […]

The year is winding down, but there’s never a dull moment in the life of an administrator…
So I pull up to the school today at about 7:10. I park behind our main building with a small group of teachers and office staff well out of the way of student drivers and buses. As I parked […]

I’ve been tagged by Brett of The Cranking Widgets Blog to post my single, most effective tip for productivity. Brett stole the first thing that came to my mind, so I’m going to take the next logical step.
Regularly process what you’ve written to extract any actionable items.

It does very little good to write everything down […]

Between graduation planning and dealing with master scheduling impossibilities (they can teach band in the library, right?), it’s been hard to post as much as I’d like. But allow me to present my third LeaderTalk post for your reading pleasure.

[Cross-posted at the West Tech Blog]
I have started listening to the net@nite podcast on TWiT and this morning I was listening to the Easter Sunday episode on the way to work. One of the callers mentioned a very cool tool called Timeline which is a part of MIT’s SIMILE Project. (Evidently, SIMILE is an […]