Just recently I have received some generous donations via PayPal, and I can't ever express how grateful I am to the folks who have donated. This post is, in part, to ask anyone inclined to donate between now and Christmas to consider sending the donation to my wife Dana, instead.
Dana is a gifted educator and edu-blogger, and well regarded in the edu-blogging community. She probably has more work to do on the computer on a daily basis than I do, and at the moment, we are sharing a single aging desktop. We also try to give my stepdaughter and our 6-year-old daughter computer time on occasion. I do tend to get dibs on the desktop because the work I do for Radar is occasionally time-sensitive and research-intensive.
I may not receive my first payment for work done for the magazine until after Christmas, so I felt like I had to note Dana's page on her edu-blog about purchasing a laptop and ask for help from anyone inclined to do so. I'd love to buy the laptop myself, but I'm sure I won't be able to.
And if you're an educator or find issues dealing with education and technology in general compelling, you should browse HuffEnglish.com and follow Dana's links. I believe she and some of her peers focusing on technology and education are at the forefront of changing the way young people learn, and for the better.
I've decided that beginning this Monday I'm taking a brief hiatus from posting on this blog, barring any super-compelling crime stories. The hiatus will only be a week and a day, if complete (as in -- if something doesn't happen that I just can't help but blog about). I still may post to my personal weblog, Random Lunatic News, and will be doing research and writing for Radar the entire time. So I'm not on vacation. If I have a post at Radar that may be of interest to readers here, I'll add that link to this entry. I will also still respond to e-mails and story tips while on hiatus, so don't hesitate to contact me that way, if you need to. The hiatus is mostly just so I can focus a little more closely on some other work that fell behind while I was ill over the last 3 weeks or so.
[Edit: Back to the old system for now. Go here to take a look at the comments you've made during the interim: http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/.]
Do some folks a favor while I'm on hiatus, and check out the links on the right side of the page -- both The True Crime Blogroll and "Steve's Links" -- a mixed bag of sites, not all of them true-crime related.
My hiatus may be delayed until tomorrow, making it simply one week long.
NOTE, 12/19/07
My life is weird.
Today, I wrote the following for Radar's "Fresh Intelligence":
Then, after sending off one of those little bits o' delight, I drove to my daughter's school to hang out with her a bit during a Christmas-y party-ish time (the school doesn't have "parties" per se, just special dates -- it's complicated).
Following that, I came back to my church to sing a solo at a noon-hour Christmas "meditation" service.
Gotta love life in the 21st Century.
Dana is a gifted educator and edu-blogger, and well regarded in the edu-blogging community. She probably has more work to do on the computer on a daily basis than I do, and at the moment, we are sharing a single aging desktop. We also try to give my stepdaughter and our 6-year-old daughter computer time on occasion. I do tend to get dibs on the desktop because the work I do for Radar is occasionally time-sensitive and research-intensive.
I may not receive my first payment for work done for the magazine until after Christmas, so I felt like I had to note Dana's page on her edu-blog about purchasing a laptop and ask for help from anyone inclined to do so. I'd love to buy the laptop myself, but I'm sure I won't be able to.
And if you're an educator or find issues dealing with education and technology in general compelling, you should browse HuffEnglish.com and follow Dana's links. I believe she and some of her peers focusing on technology and education are at the forefront of changing the way young people learn, and for the better.
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I've decided that beginning this Monday I'm taking a brief hiatus from posting on this blog, barring any super-compelling crime stories. The hiatus will only be a week and a day, if complete (as in -- if something doesn't happen that I just can't help but blog about). I still may post to my personal weblog, Random Lunatic News, and will be doing research and writing for Radar the entire time. So I'm not on vacation. If I have a post at Radar that may be of interest to readers here, I'll add that link to this entry. I will also still respond to e-mails and story tips while on hiatus, so don't hesitate to contact me that way, if you need to. The hiatus is mostly just so I can focus a little more closely on some other work that fell behind while I was ill over the last 3 weeks or so.
[Edit: Back to the old system for now. Go here to take a look at the comments you've made during the interim: http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/.]
Do some folks a favor while I'm on hiatus, and check out the links on the right side of the page -- both The True Crime Blogroll and "Steve's Links" -- a mixed bag of sites, not all of them true-crime related.
*****
My hiatus may be delayed until tomorrow, making it simply one week long.
NOTE, 12/19/07
My life is weird.
Today, I wrote the following for Radar's "Fresh Intelligence":
"Jamie-Lynn Baby Daddy's Profile?"I ain't telling you about 'em, you just have to read 'em. Remember to recommend the post if you are so inclined, but only recommend once per post, and do my fellow FI contributors a solid and see if you like other posts there and want to recommend them as well (there's a little link at the bottom of each "Fresh Intelligence" post you click to recommend that entry).
"Kucinich's Bank Robber Bro is Dead."
Then, after sending off one of those little bits o' delight, I drove to my daughter's school to hang out with her a bit during a Christmas-y party-ish time (the school doesn't have "parties" per se, just special dates -- it's complicated).
Following that, I came back to my church to sing a solo at a noon-hour Christmas "meditation" service.
Gotta love life in the 21st Century.
