Author: kathleen

Are crackers harmless?

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Alfred writes today about crackers.  And no they are not harmless.  In fact, on Twitter and the internet there are several artices about hacking insulin pumps.  Wrong term.  I have a model of insulin pump that resembles what the cracker is talking about and it is a bit scary.  It wouldn't kill me.  My pump whirs when it dispenses insulin so I would hear it if I was suddenly getting over delivered, and I do check my blood sugar so I would know if I was not getting the right amount.

If you are interested, just do a search on hacking insulin pumps.

They have set up a great workshop, and I hope more people come to their future ones.  The morning focused on fundraising, with someone who is an expert in large project fundraising and someone who had done some FIRST FTC training.

They also had an educational expert from NASA who showed us their education programs.

Afternoon was focused on programming, and their students helped us program.

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It is SO good to hear this from a major presenter.

This is a major topic on Systers, and it is amazing that it still happens.

Apparently a presenter demostrated databases, using a database rating woman by hotness.

Now, please, if you can't present something to a group of high school (or better yet, middle school students), don't present it ever. It is't appropriate for any audience.

What is the difference between Hacking and programming?

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Good points!

This is something I try to teach. Often what I do, does look like hacking, but I have things planned out in my head.

Trying to get better at it — this would be a great way to use One Note, and something I'm trying to do.

Just finished doing all my planning on my trip.  Making reservations, etc.  So I immediately set up a notebook on OneNote for it, and send a copy of all of the correspondence related to the trip.

• Email with the scholarship offer (which I already sent a copy of to my administrators as a brag and so they would know I would need a staff development day.
• Conference Registration pages
• Flight Reservation pages

I’ll put together a schedule later, and any correspondence, receipts etc. will end up there.

Saved my butt last year when I got the TCEA Conference Scholarship, as the person I had sent all the information to was laid off and her files were lost.  Or it was easier to just ask me.  At any rate, I had a copy of everything and could get it emailed to the person who needed.

I have applied for this scholarship for three years running.  This year I get to go, in November after telling my husband we were NOT going on a cruise to Alaska in October <smile>.

I have always wanted to go, but just don’t have the funds and can’t justify it.  It’s going to cost me a little bit, but not near as much as if  I had to foot the bill.

I’ve REALLY looking forward to it.

I’ve never been to Denver (where I have to switch planes) or Portland.

Office Chair
Parts

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These people rock.

I found a chair at Office Depot I really liked, except it had a really cheap base. Really cheap. Plus it was too high.

It broke within a day or two.

I found this site, called them Monday afternoon, and made the order while I was talking to them.

I now have a decent office chair, the new base was delivered this afternoon. I can't believe how fast the delivery was.

They rock!

I do keep things on portable hard drives, BUT I hate two things about them:

Difficulty backing them up

Finding them

I have somewhat solved the difficulty in backing them up (but it goes back to the cloud thing).  Have a lovely NAS (and the new one seems to work right), that allows you to plug in USB drives and will back them up.  Doesn’t work on all of them and I have to remember to back them up.

The other issue is finding them.  Ran into that this morning.  Wanted to pull some files from last year and put them on my district skydrive, and couldn’t find it.  Didn’t dawn on my that only about half of my USB stuff was on my desk and went through the whole house looking for it.  Finally realized that I need to look for a bag – and it was in an okay place, but have moved it since as the dogs could get to the bag if they wanted. 

Plus I’ve got over 10 of things over the past 5 years.

To get over that, I’ve doing several things:

Putting school stuff on the District Sky Drive

Using an Iomega Storage Device

Using Office 365

So far, the second two work pretty well with the phone, and all work with all devices.  We’ll se what the district file wall does for me.

Domain mapping is working.

www.mykweaver.com takes you to the Office 365 Site.  blog.mykweaver.com takes you to my Windows 7 Blog. 

www.kathweaver.net takes you to www.kweaver.net

Still need to play more with it, but it is looking lots better.