Thanks so much to the A. Vare Elementary folks in Philadelphia! They sent us THREE postcards about Philadelphia! I’ll take these to my daughter’s class tomorrow morning! They will be so excited!
Here are scans, the front of one and the front and back of the second two (the first one had teacher’s names on it and I didn’t want to publically broadcast it without permission…)
Aren’t they awesome! Thanks so much!!
The postcards for my daughter’s kindergarten class have begun to arrive!
Exactly a week ago today I posted a request to the network asking for postcards. I also sent it out via Twitter and immediately I got a few responses.
Well, the fruits of that request are flowing in, as I received two postcards today!
One is from the incomparable Chrissy H from New Zealand…
The other is from the wonderful Kat Saton from Virginia!
Thank you to both these wonderful folks for sending my little girl’s class these postcards! I’ll deliver them this afternoon to the school.
Would you be willing to send me a postcard?
My daughter’s kindergarten class started a little project where they made a gingerbread man and were asked to send it to someone far away and ask that person to send back a postcard.
That got me to thinking, what if I digitally “sent” the gingerbread man and asked folks in my network to send a postcard my way? That could be interesting…
So, here is my 5 year-old daughter’s gingerbread man!
Would you consider sending us a postcard? Yes, it needs to be received through US mail…
It’s funny because they were only intending for folks in the USA to respond, and that is evidenced from the fact that their wall map is only of the US! Interesting how US-centric our classrooms are, isn’t it?!
So, anyone willing to send my little girl a postcard for her class? Here are the only requirements..
1. It needs to be a photo postcard reflecting where you live.
2. It needs to be sent through the mail.
That’s it! These kindergartners would love to hear from you all! Will you help? Leave a comment with a valid email address and I will send you the address…
I finally upgraded this blog to 2.3.1. I guess I was scared to because I worried the theme wouldn’t handle the upgrade, since the tagging taxonomy changed a bit. It seems to have handled it ok, at least it appears no worse for the wear.
Back to regularly scheduled whatever you were doing!
Chris
Got this in my email this morning, it’s only an excerpt but a good one nonetheless:
Thanks to your early action, your XO laptop is scheduled to be delivered between December 14 and December 24. Our “first day” donors are our highest priority and we are making every effort to deliver your XO laptop(s) as soon as possible. We will send you an update upon shipment.
Since this is a Christmas present for my daughter, I am very pleased to hear this! I’ll keep you posted on how well it goes over.
Jen Wagner pens a poignant post about friendship and Twitter. What caught me really off guard was David Jakes’ comment.
Whoa, wake up call.
I understand the power of the network, but I also understand keeping one’s distance and not breaking the barrier between the appropriate and inappropriate in that kind of environment. Well, let’s say I understand that better now.
A few days ago I was looking through my processes window here at work on the Windows machine I use. It runs Windows XP Pro, for what that’s worth. I saw this…
Since I was dealing with a slightly sluggish system of late, I decided to Google this process to find out what the heck it was.
Do the search yourself and see what you think.
Do you think what I thought? A trojan! I was worried about this because I am super careful and consider myself darn savvy about where to click and where not to. I immediately ran my Trend Micro OfficeScan client as well as Windows Defender. Didn’t pick up a thing.
According to one link, the trojan is totally memory resident so scans won’t detect it. Uh, ok.
I found a removal tool, which crashed each time I ran it. Did I really have it and the trojan was knocking out the removal tool? Yikes!
I managed to find the log file generated by the removal tool and it said my ssnetlib.dll was not vulnerable. It shouldn’t be, I am up to date with all my Microsoft Updates.
So what’s the problem, then? I’ve got a process taking up 50 megs (sometimes way more) and I don’t know why. As a side note, I am familiar with the plain jane SQL Server and I have not ever installed it here. I don’t have any reason to.
After a few hours of quitting it and having it restart itself (the process, that is) I happened on a link that mentioned Pinnacle. Well, after seeing Dean Shareski‘s green screen presentation for the Flat Classroom Project, I grabbed a copy of Pinnacle Studio 10 with the green screen (couldn’t find v. 11 locally) and installed it.
On a whim, I checked the Add/Remove Programs section and lo and behold…
I promptly removed it and went on about my day with a speedier system. This post is intended to hit the search results rankings so that others can see the sqlserver.exe is not always a trojan.
My daughter brought home her class teddy bear this weekend. Sunny spent the entire weekend with us and we took some time today to create a voicethread about it. I hope this works, so sorry if it comes through a few different times in your aggregator.
[voicethread b=20446]
We also made an Animoto about the weekend…
