Natural Blogarithms

This is the title of an article in a recent edition of i.e. (interactive educator, by Smart Technologies).  You can download this month’s magazine  by clicking on the image.  I was surprised at how insightful I found several of the articles in ths issue.  I didn’t quite know what to expect from an article in [...]

Question:
Which is more fun,
a) Filling in for a colleague with sick kids, getting to teach her Abstract Algebra Class,
b) Filling in for a colleague with jury duty, getting to teach her College Algebra Class,
c) Typing up the committee minutes for last weeks Executive Committee Meeting, or
d) Designing and implenting a random knot search algorithm in [...]

I am so glad to be back in the classroom. Every summer, I spend a significant portion of my time dedicated to research. As a result, each year at this time, I almost always convince myself to start looking for a full time position in a research institution, perhaps even leave the world [...]

I am simply testing the FeedBurner email notification. Can you tell I love to tinker with this thing?

I am tired of trying to run my own SMTP server when I know so little about doing so. Maybe someday I will go back, but for now, I am going to use FeedBurner for my email notification. Everyone that is on my list will receive an email from me personally about the [...]

So I’m back at work full time.  Today was the first full day I have spent back at Wayland after my summer “break.”  It was a full day of professional development meetings.  Ranging from departmental updates to actual faculty development, I must say it was, overall, a pretty good day.  I’m mainly comparing it to [...]

There are currently a few bugs still to be worked out but, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the transition to the new server has gone fairly smoothly. You might’ve noticed my weather plugin on the sidebar is on the fritz.
The primary reason for the switch was that the previous server was a borrowed machine. [...]

I have to admit/confess something. To the dismay of many of my scientific programming pals, I am Microsoft Junkie. No matter how many folks try to convert me to Linux or to even the Mac, I remain a loyal customer of the giant evil (fill in whatever other mean and nasty adjectives you [...]