helpful hint- May 31, 2006 The PHP spoke to me today. Apparently on our last SSP (school improvement planning) inservice, wherein our successes and needs were listed on big chart paper (we went around in small groups), someone added this: "The books in the library should be arranged by subject." I explained to the PHP that non fic books were, indeed, arranged by subject. That fiction and picture books were arranged by author last name. That I can, for ficpicbooks, search the catalogue for on topic books. That I will not..http://www.lisnews.org/node/27037 please. help meeeee- May 11, 2006 I shall also relate other tales of tech stupidity that aren't necessarily my own. Had a teacher come in today. We'll call her Sarah (names changed to protect the guilty). She has one of our digital cameras (which are diskette based) and says that everytime they put a new, blank disk in it, it says "no file". Um. I really hope my "how bleedin' stupid are you" thoughts didn't show on my face. It's a blank disk. You want a blank disk to say "no files" when you put it in (and it's on the view...http://www.lisnews.org/node/26964 I suppose...- May 4, 2006 I can still tell stories about my own stupidity. Heh. Made a big ol' ID10T error this week. On Monday and Tuesday, I realised that I wasn't getting as much of my email as I should. A couple I'd sent myself from home, and mostly, my digest list mail from LM-NET (which is always busy). So I checked with lm-net and everything was fine on their end. Next, I email Tech Guy, tell him my email doesn't seem to be working, etc. That's fine, he shows up Tuesday afternoon. Now, on Monday, I switched my..http://www.lisnews.org/node/26928 |