Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2007 No Comments »
According to an article on CNN’s website, the smiley face consisting of a hyphen, dash, and parenthesis will celebrate its birthday tomorrow. It seems that Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman first used the emotional icon, aka emoticon, in an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982. It’s amazing to [...]
Posted in Personal on Sep 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
My blog posts may be somewhat sporadic for a while. My 92 year old grandfather has been hospitalized with a multitude of health problems. As the only child of his only child, there is not a lot of family to share the load of caring for him. The time left with him is important. More [...]
Posted in Blogging on Sep 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
In my last post, I lamented the fact that neither kindergarten nor first grade had a blog going. I warned them that I was targeting them next. Well, lo and behold, I have THREE new blogs to share today. Two of the kindergarten teachers met with me and we set up their blogs. Then one [...]
