Brain FriezeThe writings and assorted news on education, web design, politics and other topics from Kim Cavanaugh--teacher, author, and curious guy. The thoughts here are entirely my own and in no way reflect the views of my employer.No! No! I Said Fire Achmed! Fire!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) OK, so there's been all this controversy around the Photoshopped Iranian missile test. Newspapers all over the world ran one image that was released that showed four missiles streaking into the sky, while another, taken at an almost identical moment shows three missiles launching and another sitting on its mobile launcher (i.e....http://brainfrieze.net/weblog.php?id=P808 The Problem With Working With Young Developers- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Want to feel old in a hurry 1. Do some collaboration work with a young developer. 2. Launch into a story about how you learned to do X or Y or Z back in the day. 3. Realize that when you were doing that the young developer.... 4. Had not yet been born.http://brainfrieze.net/weblog.php?id=P807 A Morning on the Water- (Found July 15, 2008 ) The morning sky was tropical white, soaked through with the moisture that the land was giving back. Gone were the previous evenings raucous thunderstorms, with their torrential rain and searing bolts of lightning. The sky now took back its share of the water, leaving the air thick and still and promising another south Florida deluge later on. The spillway was open, the runoff from last night's storm sluicing through canals from the neighborhoods and the businesses that cling to the...http://brainfrieze.net/weblog.php?id=P806 |