http://www.gorillapond.com Technology, Education, IT, and Internets Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:13:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while! How have you been? Summer preparations are in full swing in our technology department. We're getting everything ready for all of the teachers and students to start another year. Here are a few things I have been working on or will be working on before the ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2008/08/10/catching-up/ I've been learning about the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop concepts and playing with the emulated environment. I'm completely impressed and excited. More on that later. I'm completely excited that I have finally (after waiting 3 weeks) made first contact with someone at OLPC, who forwarded my information to someone ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/12/25/one-laptop-per-child-part-1/ I've always claimed to like photography. Right after high school I would carry a point-and-shoot camera with me all the time. It felt a little limiting, but it was small and worked well enough. A few months ago, I purchased a Canon Digital Rebel XT but only used it at ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/08/20/photography-revived/ This "too expensive" angle has been played out. I've owned Sidekick, Treo, Blackberry and even nice non-smart SonyEricsson phones. They all had their quirks and I always ended up moving to another phone to fill some deficiency or missing feature. My iPhone is much, much better than all of ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/07/03/iphone-thoughts/ I've had my iPhone for a few days, and I put together a review of my first impressions. Read more to find out. Purchase Shannon and I showed up at the local Apple store at around 5:30pm, and waited in line about an hour before seeing the inside of the store. ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/07/02/iphone-first-impressions/ I really think Microsoft has something special with Surface. Read more for a video demo. http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/06/21/get-ready-for-surface/ Consider this a notice that the format of the blog will change. I won't be removing anything, but I will be blogging about more topics. I started the blog as a place to post good information only, and it has served its purpose so far. I really held back posting ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/04/11/change-in-direction/ If you will be at the eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference next week, come see me. I have 2 sessions: Virtualization Everywhere and Desktop Deployment. Both are on Wednesday afternoon. If you are looking for the notes/slides from these sessions, just click the appropriate heading at the top of the ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/02/14/etech-ohio-educational-technology-conference-2007/ I had a request to install and configure an instant messaging service for a couple of users who operated out of different buildings. After doing some research, I went with the Jabber/XMPP server called Wildfire. Most of the other servers I looked at seemed to require much more configuration than ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2007/01/09/instant-messaging-taking-off-like-wildfire/ I was excited to see VMware Fusion released last week, since I missed getting into the private beta. It was a fairly large download, about the size as VMware Workstation. After the painless installation process, I copied over some of my template VMDKs for Windows XP and Server 2003 to ... http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/12/27/vmware-fusion-36932-public-beta-review/