Johnny Bunko is Graduation Gift on Par with Dr Suess’ Oh the Places You’ll Go

Dan Pink's experiment with Johnny Bunko is a gem. It's fun! It's written in comic book style ( manga for those in the know). It's useful! A career guide with six lessons. It's real! The web community has hijacked it and added a 7th lesson 🙂 More -- Kevin Kelly has a great review here...

IT Crowd is Way Too Funny :-) ( TV )

The IT Crowd is fantastic! It's really Laugh-Out-Loud funny. There are 4 season's of 6 episodes each. "The Speech" Season 3 Episode 4 is my favorite followed closely by "The Work Outing" Season 2 Episode 1.

Out of Your Mind Education With Ken Robinson & and bit of Dan Pink’s “Drive”

I really enjoyed Sir Ken Robinson's book Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. It's much tougher going and less "HowTo" practical than creativity guru Dan Pink, but Robinson's book lays an extremely good foundation from which to understand the issues in education today. In a way this information really makes me want to...

Back to School – Loading Bootcamp

Loading Bootcamp onto my daughter's Mac was a pain 😦 Overall the process is straight forward, but there were a few major gotchas for us . I found a really good "howto" to get me going. http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/01/15/using-boot-camp-to-install-windows-7-on-your-mac-the-complete-walkthrough/. The gotcha's for us were that our disk wouldn't partition via Bootcamp Assistant. Google searching on this was...