Monthly Archives: July 2007

[smh] Paid care for babies a pale imitation The warehousing of children in the guise of “care” or, even more implausibly, “early learning” (“That means the blocks have letters on them,” joked one staff member I spoke to recently) is something more and more parents feel distraught about. The research is now undeniable that babies …

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A touch of frost Here’s a tip I learned this morning: when the windscreen is completely frosted over, and you can’t see through it at all, pour some tepid water (even coldish water will do) on the windscreen: you’ll clear the ice without breaking the glass.

With a new semester about to start, I’m trying to work out what is going to fall by the wayside as I make time to do more reading and writing (and learning Greek) than in past semesters. An obvious candidate for the cull is blog-reading – the fact that I’m not familiar with how mch …

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[37signals] Pastor uses software to keep track of interactions with his congregation – the software developers over at 37 signals have developed software that lets users keep track of their interactions with customers. This particular person is an ordained minister, and he uses the software to make sure that none the people he is responsible …

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