http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog Effective and Efficient Education Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:50:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 1995 I started using Eudora as my main email program. Before that I used PINE on a terminal client. All of my email from 1989 to 1995 fit on one floppy, so a text based terminal program was fine. Today I get more than a "floppy full" of ... http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/08/05/goodbye-eudora-hello-gmail/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Trusty's at Cedar Point"][/caption] With my brother's family in town, we decided to brave the lines at Cedar Point.  The picture above demonstrates how advanced our communications have become.  I stood under the Cork Screw and waited for my wife to call me from the loading platform.  ... http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/08/04/cedar-point/ Yesterday, TechCrunch proposed a challenge to build a web tablet for $200.  The initial product specs are pretty simple.   The device needs to run Firefox and Skype.  The screen needs to be some sort of iPhone-like touch screen.  There must also be WiFi, a speaker, camera and microphone. The basic idea ... http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/07/22/200-tc-tablet/ This one is for Buzz. http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/07/20/citrus-buzz/ Thanks to my brother for the tickets to a dinner with James Laurinaitis, linebacker from the Buckeyes.  Laurinaitis is the son of a professional wrestler (The Animal).  You've probably seen pictures of the Road Warriors, the Animal's famous tag team. James was an All-Star in high school and was asked to ... http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/07/13/the-little-animal/