technology

This website looks very promising: http://www.codecademy.com/. It doesn't have very many courses listed on it right now, but it looks like they're doing a bang-up job.

It seems very similar to the one computer science class I took when I attended Indiana University. We used Scheme, and nearly all of the course work was computer automated. Every program we wrote was submitted and graded online. The professors were fantastic about responding over email, so feeback was often immediate. It was a great way to learn a new programming language.

I signed up for Google+ as soon as I could, mostly just to see what it was like. While there were a number of things that I immedilately liked about it, this article explains exactly why I never went back to it after a few days of experimenting with it. I can't bear the thought of having to categorize every single one of my online relationships. Yuck: