I have found a very good article for parents who have young children. One concern most parents have is the development of social skills while making sure your child is safe in communicating with others.
Children look up to their parents. You are their very first teachers, so be conscious of how you handle social situations. The more you guide and model positive social interactions, the quicker your children will learn what is acceptable and what’s not.
Click here to read the rest, and as always I’d appreciate any feedback!
Googling GEB (the acronym that only the really cool hip math geeks use, try it at your next party) I found a link to a course that MIT (yes, that MIT) is putting on studying the book. And it’s in their OpenCourseWare program! Which means I get to study a free class analyzing theoretical interconnectedness of multidisciplinary formal systems!!! OMG SQWEEE!!!!1!
[ahem]
On a slightly more strange/sinister note, there seems to be some odd conspiracy preventing me from tracking down any information about this book at the moment. The wikipedia page won’t load. The wikipedia page with just the abbreviation (GEB) won’t load (other pages load fine). The Amazon page won’t load (the rest of the site seems to work). Every picture of the front cover on Google Image Search won’t load. Reviews of the book won’t load. Seriously, just to get the thumbnail I had to go to some German blog. My guess? We’re renting office space, and therefore network access, from a big insurance company, and they want to make sure to prevent any of their employees from questioning reality too much. Bad for business.
4000 Kilometers with tents, tarps, and trees, mountains and oceans, waves and whales.
Running and running and running through the streets of Edmonton under the sun of the Sahara.
Days of learning at the feet of the masters of my industry, in a room of peers and heroes, friends and family, in a setting as inspirational as the stories being told.
I’ll get into details over the next few days, but I just wanted to say hey, I’m back!
Another provision of Bill C-61 allows you to record television shows on your PVR. That is, if the broadcaster doesn’t disallow recording, which it can do by embedded a “broadcast flag” within the signal — a digital signal that tells your PVR that it’s not allowed to record the show, because that will cut into sales of the DVD box set of the show that they’ll eventually release. In other words, in many cases, your PVR will actually be less capable of recording shows than its clunkier, lower-fidelity predecessor, the VCR.
Here’s another way the VCR has an edge over the modern PVR: with a VCR, you can keep a permanent library of your favourite shows, which will last as long as your tapes do. No such luck with a PVR under Bill C-61: PVRs built in compliance with the bill are not allowed to keep a permanent library of your shows. They will be built with a limited amount of storage and with no backup capability, and just to be safe, all shows recorded on a PVR will be deleted if they are kept for longer than a pre-specified amount of time.
I guess Alberta’s running out of phone numbers! Soon we will not only have to learn a new Alberta area code (587), but we will all have to remember to dial all 10 digits of local calls as well.
The 587 thing concerns me a bit… they aren’t making it specific to a region, but introducing it “across all of Alberta.” So does that mean that someone in Fort McMurray will have the same area code as someone in Lethbridge? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of an AREA code?
The whole 10-digit dialing isn’t new to me fortunately… living in Ontario, they had 10-digit dialing in place long ago. It’s actually been kind of difficult to get out of the habit since moving back here!
