The Blog of Ms. Mercer

Wednesday January 30, 2008 in a Sentence
Today was an inverse sh*t sandwich: my desktop o/s was fried last night when the server crashed, so I had to be reimaged; the school day went great; I got my cell phone lost/stolen at the end of the day.
Tuesday January 29, 2008 in a Sentence
The high today was [...]

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So, I sign up for a course through USD so I can get units towards this stupid supplemental authorization (it’s not stupid, it’s just giving me a headache to get, if you want a laugh, ask to see the email I’ve exchanged with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing where they give me advice that contradicts [...]

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Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net - Mudflaps and Libraries

Public Libraries in Wyoming have a new campaign featuring the mudflap gal. Now there’s an advocacy campaign! This reminded me of back when I did work advocating for public libraries. Truckers are apparently big library users (they like audio books). For the record, I consider this [...]

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Lisa’s Lingo: My “Little” Circle of Friends
Wow, I’m part of a social network. Nice words from Lisa.
dy/dan » Blog Archive » NYT-Quality Charting Using Dumb Ol’ Excel
Dan has a video showing a really cool way to create decent looking graphs on Excel.
Kobus van Wyk - Blog
Wow! Another awesome piece of analysis from Kobus [...]

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In the New York Times: Margaret Spellings thinks NCLB is just fine, thank you very much!
Rick Scheibner » Soccer education
Definitely worth reading. His powers of observation are awesome.
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL » Blog Archive » Carnival of Education
A great idea, doing a carnival of posts on ELL/ESL/EFL [...]

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How hot is it? Too darn hot! Here is the five day forecast:

which comes with a severe weather alert.
Here in Sacramento, we judge our summers by how many days the temperature is in “the triple digits” (over 100). A bad summer is where you have more than 20 days of this. The season usually [...]

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I spent a lot of time online the week before (Spring Break). Unfortunately, I have been doing more work for myself (stuff on professional development, job hunting, etc.) and did not get much planning and other work done. Not sure if it will be worth it, and I probably should have gotten out more often. [...]

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A recent comment on an old post at dangerously irrelevant had me looking at one of the links to a study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. I love the results for California because if you think about them, they really make absolutely no sense:

 We are failing on academic achievement, and bridging the race/income gap (the [...]

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Update at the bottom 
Tom Turner had a post on fliptrack which is a nifty program, so I tried it out:

Here is a comparison of some of the programs I’ve used lately:
http://fliptrack.com/
Has a download to PC but both programs are not very user friendly. No undo buttons or cut-n-paste that I could discern.
Photos from PC, Flickr, [...]

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Lots of talk about Kathy Sierra and poor nettiquette that has degenerated to possible criminal threats.  Tom Turner posts about it here.
I’m trying to crank down the snark factor in some of my posts since this happened. I think my snarkiness has been creeping up lately (example)
In addition to this, I was disturbed while watching this Bloggingheads.tv diavlog [...]

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