Thursday, September 5, 2002|
Oops! Apologies to people who posted comments recently. By an accident I...missed them. 6:32:47 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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"So what was the lesson of 9-11 that the US has failed to learn? I think it's that God doesn't think we're as important as we do." Bravo, Dave. 4:54:54 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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Went for a long off-road bike ride at lunch and now my knees are quite sore. This is the second time this year that biking has done this, which seems odd since running doesn't bother me at all. I though it was supposed to be the other way around. 4:39:19 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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E-Commerce tax policy penalizes Canadian business "The policy concludes that a service is performed in Canada when the supplier's or recipient's equipment is located in Canada. In an e-commerce context, this suggests that Canadian businesses using Canadian Internet service providers are more likely to supply their services in Canada and, thus, may be required to collect GST." This is absurd and means I would have to collect GST from US clients for online courses. 8:24:56 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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Of PowerPoint and Pointlessness "Attracted by the same slick interface and easy learning curve that drew the corporate types, educators and students are employing the presentation software in classrooms in ever-increasing numbers. For some teachers, the computerized slide-show format is deposing the blackboard." 8:13:23 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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Greek to You "More disturbingly, people are beginning to see that their intelligent children don't know very much. Here they are, with minds as strong as any the world has seen, and those minds simply don't contain very much, nor are they very well molded. And they've frittered away their childhoods on public-school silliness like multiculturalism and time-wasting projects instead of reading books. They know things, but they haven't learned much systematically. If they had taken, say, French and Latin by the age of twelve [~] along with Algebra I [~] they'd not only know all that comes with them; they'd have gained the ability to teach themselves whatever comes along. Rote memorization is a prerequisite to real knowledge. As my colleague Jeff Hart has said, what else are you supposed to do with French irregular verbs? Well, use them, obviously. But first you must learn them, and that can be hard work for a while." Some good points - should make for an interesting letters to the editor section. The TV and computer are far more likely culprits for wasted time than multiculturalism. Both of our children have been in French immersion since day one. I wonder to what degree studying any second language conveys the benefits proposed in this article? 7:50:20 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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