Tales of a Technology Omnivore

Shameless part 2. My colleagues want to know how to connect the Blackberry 8700c to your laptop for wireless access. I want my colleagues to read my blog. ::next sentence in slow thought-out speech:: So what if I explain how to connect to the Blackberry 8700c to their laptop and when my colleagues ask I direct them to my blog? Another shameless strategy to boost my blog readership. Yes reader, you too can use shameless tactics to boost your blog readership.

P.S. — these directions are from the wireless.att.com site. I would have linked them directly but the URL wouldn’t bring you to this specific page.

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A superintendent in an upstate New York district sent an email that she wishes nobody saw.  The background info:  local fire regulations require that classroom doors stay closed during class but the teachers are propping open the doors because of the 90 degree temperatures.  So in frustration, to a school operations person, the superintendent says “Please go kill these people, please, please, please.”  but accidentally cc’s everyone involved in the dispute including the teachers she wants killed!  Just IMAGINE the fiasco that ensues:  union emergency meetings, public apologies, etc.  Emailers beware!

School Chief’s Embarrassment Is a Lesson for Itchy Emailers

This is shameless. I have created this post to draw my colleagues to my blog once again. What makes it worse is that I better understand my need for attention after taking the DiSC personality profile at my monthly departmental meeting. It says that I require “enthusiastic public praise for my verbal ability and interpersonal skills”. So colleagues, after reading this, please respond appropriately — I need it. And it will help you better communicate with me… and Sonia said.

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