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When is a worm a good thing? When it makes you upgrade your Wordpress software and start blogging again.

Thanks to a warning from a colleague, I learned that older versions of WordPress were being targeted by worms. My blog was running on a "very old" WordPress version, so this weekend I did a long backup, and then revamped it back up to the latest version. I did the same for the family sailing blog, and our photo gallery site.

Better still, I learned how to post directly to the blogs from my… Continue

We're approaching the launch date for our new Finalsite main web site.

This week, we finished the uploads of calendar layers, athletics schedules and rosters, and other data. We're now tracking down blank pages and finishing roll-out plans.

This is my fourth web page roll out for a school, and perhaps the one with most promise. In the past, web sites had strong ties to informing prospective families. This web site, with a majority of content within the portal, has strong operational objectives… Continue

Well, maybe partially alive. I plan to post some observations and notes from the Lausanne Laptop conference at my main blog www.k12converge.com and here if possible.

To begin, I've been posting about my first year in London, a new Advent Netbook (MSI Wind) I starting using just 2 days ago, losing my luggage over the Atlantic, and reading Carol Dweck. (Drinking an entire carafe of coffee at iHop this morning may or may not have been a great idea.)

Meanwh… Continue

I just finished a blog post about my daughter's growing interest in photography:

http://www.k12converge.com/?p=242

What's interesting about working with an eight year-old and photography is the way that the medium puts her one step back from simply looking at the scene or subject. Too much of this meta-awareness would likely be detrimental to a young child's development, but in chosen ways I can it being both fun and creative. May… Continue

A quick update on eeePCs...

I've bought three so far. One is hidden as a xmas gift for my two kids next week. The other two were briefly handed around the IT office before being appropriated by the High School First Robotics team. I had an update today that they are now successfully using them to write and compile the programming of their robot, and the eeePCs have the right cost and form factor to travel with them to the competition.

Overall, I give all credit to the program… Continue