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For the Win by Cory Doctorow My rating: 3 of 5 stars While not as good as Little Brother I enjoyed this book. Doctorow has somehow managed to put together MMOs with an easy to understand overview of unions and global economics. Along the way he explains the basis of why economies collapse, what inflation […]
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The Last Colony by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars A brilliant novel. The perfect way to wrap up the trilogy (yes, I know it continues, but it was originally the end of the trilogy). Scalzi has the perfect combination of military sci-fi mixed with bits of humor, political maneuvering, and all set […]
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I read a lot. I know this because I keep track of it. The first year I kept track was from summer 2007 to summer 2008. I was taking the bus to UBC every day and had a lot of time to read. I read 54 books that year. Yes, I averaged over one a […]
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Yep, moved the site again. I decided that Drupal wasn’t what I needed (the security exploit that let someone infect my entire domain wasn’t fun). It’s taken me nearly a month to learn enough to pull everything out of my database and put it into a WP database, turned out it was a minor problem […]
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driving into a jungle of steel and girder cut off from the earth beneath me by rubber and asphalt I yearn for peaceful days by the river where the water burbled past the stones and gathered in the pools of leaping into the liquid ice – and feeling alive a building made of cedar and […]
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“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work” -Chuck Close
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I was reading Lowering Higher Education by James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar recently and was intrigued by their chapter on Technologies. In it they discuss the concept of Digital Natives and whether or not they require a different style of teaching or have a different understanding of learning. Do Digital Natives require a […]
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Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education by James E. Côté My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you are at all interested or involved in Higher Education I recommend you read this book. If the government and schools were to implement even some of their recommendations I […]