Technology

This being the last Wednesday before the iPhone’s (so insanely over-hyped) release in Canada I thought I’d cover the issues that surround the sleek little 3g hockey puck.

Okay now I have to go do a radio show about feminists and technology, who the fuck decided to become a pundit while she has a thesis to finish and some websites to design. Oh right me, I am a fyucking idjut.

I just fried both my external hard drives, at a time when there is about 5 gb of space left on my compy.

I think I fried both of them because I either; a/ used the wrong power source, or b/ plugged into an ungrounded socket or c/ both.

One hd holds all my archived data of about 5 years so if I were to get audited tomorrow the auditor would have a short job of it. The other holds all the videos I did this year for school.

I tried plugging in the second one, a second time, just to see if I could somehow coax it back to life and not only did I smell the burning, I saw a little plume of smoke curling up from it's silver casing.

Anyone know how to rescue data from hds that have suffered some vague electrical damage?

Little What?

So this is a new charitable organization called Little Geeks: “Little Geeks is a philanthropic organization and registered Canadian charity that collects, refurbishes and re-distributes donated home computers to children in need.� How about that graphic design - like Toys R’Us on poppers. I feel like Joe Matt must have done the illustrations since no-one has eyeballs. Seriously though, “Little Geeks�? I can’t say I like it.

Though it may seem harsh to take shots at a good-hearted enterprise, I strongly believe that people from the corporate sector, (and take a look at the board of directors if you want to know who’s backing this project) need as much educating about social change as people who barter for used monitors need educating about interest rates and borrowing to save.

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So, here's a post from Slate The $100 Distraction Device: Why giving poor kids laptops doesn't improve their scholastic performance. Wherein the author suggests, that computers alone do not = scholastic achievement, that often computers waste time and are detrimental, if not to intelligence then to manifestations of intelligence such as doing your homework. IWhat the author is missing is that much of the literature around technology and learning is about how playing on a computer is often a learning process that is just not recognized as such.