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Got bored yesterday watching a rerun of Desperate Housewives and decided to take my own advice and make my own clothes. Here’s a shirt I’m buying (and building) at Spreadshirt, because I’d actually want to wear it.And hey, if I can wear it, maybe you want to wear it too. So here you go (click [...]

Just wanted to throw a pointer out to a great web application/clothing shop I came across the other day: www.spreadshirt.com.

Spreadshirt takes an idea that is not new (selling customized t-shirts) and does it better than anyone has done it before. I think that’s a strong business model. It worked for Basecamp.

When you get to Spreadshirt’s [...]

I’m just starting to get into listening to more podcasts, and I wanted to find some for teachers. The Educational Podcast Network looks like it has a good list going, although it’s a little confusing to navigate and I wish I could see ratings or popularity counts for each show.Podcasting News also has a nice [...]

An update on Teacher! (my easy online grading app): development continues at a rapid pace. I launched the Free Wordsearch Creator a few weeks ago and it has gotten a good response. Actually I was pretty surprised by how many people found it useful; I didn’t think there was such a big market for wordfinds.I [...]

A lesson in trusting computers: don’t trust them. As I learned the hard way yesterday, if you’re not willing to do a small amount of human thinking, you’re at the mercy of a machine, and the machine is not always as smart as you think.Case in point: I had a meeting with my sister last [...]

America’s boys are in trouble. They are the most violent in the industrialized world.

Surprised? I didn’t think so. It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that American boys are in crisis. For years now we’ve seen the statistic; lower grades, lower graduation rates, higher crime rates – than girls.

So when I caught this [...]

Getting this error in your logs?FastCGI: incomplete headers (35 bytes) received from serverI was. I think I figured it out, though. It’s not a problem with you app. It’s a problem with the session cookies. If you’re using Firefox with the Web Developer toolbar, you can fix it by clearing your session cookies (in the [...]

http://freewordsearch.teacherly.com

It’s an AJAX wordsearch creator; it lets you see the puzzle as it’s being created. Check it out and let me know what you think!

The AJAX wordsearch creator, brought to you by Teacher! Easy Online Grading.