HP seems to be the printer vendor of choice at U of M, and it’s very convenient to buy their printers and supplies. I have an HP 2605dn color laser printer, which I’ve generally liked except for an occasional tendency to print pages with a solid red background, which is both expensive and ugly. Now [...]
Interesting discussion by Simon Winchester on a book tour in China. It captures a sense of how deeply strange it can be to be there, and how you can suddenly be expected to engage in the kind of public discussion that you’d ordinarily want to prepare for (this happened to my daughter, too, who was [...]
Inside School Research
Debra Viadero, a reporter from Education Week, came to our presentation at the IES Research conference and put together a brief piece on it here. The photo shows Lauren Phelps, who’s the project manager on the grant.
I see that the next edition of the Mac OS, due out in September, will allow you to enter Chinese characters by drawing them on the trackpad with your finger. The iPhone already does this, and I’ve been very impressed with it. This is definitely good news.
Apple – Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Refining [...]
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