The game plan for today seemed reasonable; a training session with some school administrators. I’d installed the test dataset, and my phone list was clear. Collection of a steno pad for taking notes, and a ride over to the training centre. Check. Check. Check.
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As our bus rolled through a street construction site this evening, I watched the fellow on his small bulldozer, rolling back and forth to pack down a layer of sand. After all, the better the base is packed, the longer the road will last.
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A long time ago, thanks to the wonderful program Shur-Gain Talent Time, hosted by the late Loman MacAulay, I learned a short hand-rhyme that went “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open the door and see all the people”.
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Today was a pretty ordinary day for life in this new century. The day began with a videoconference over IP that linked the nine English school boards up. For the first time ever. I guess nobody felt the need to do such a thing before, because it didn’t involve any new toys, and it didn’t require anyone to spend hours in setup. It just worked. The one odd note was that while I was linking our conference room, someone in the Montreal room said “I know you; we used to work together about twenty years ago”. Which we had. The medium, not the message, because people have been running into people for a long time now; just not by videoconference. Those innovative souls at Skype today made all outgoing phone calls in North America (Skpye calls, not ALL calls) free until next year. Financially very innovative; a company that had almost free stuff making it even more almost free. I can feel the fearful shivers of Bell from here… So, I called my sister just to talk using my computer. Again, the medium, not the message. I do talk to most of my sisters from time to time; the others are around, somewhere, just not in the same communication space as me. Maybe this even more free dimension will have an effect there, too. I guess that I’ll just have to become more verbal/more verbose. Too many tools and not enough incentives. Too many ways and means and not enough projects. I still don’t videoconference with friends and family, although there’s enough hardware around that I’m running out of reasons.
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Environment Canada upped the warning tags to four, and the day changed direction. This morning the weather left much to be desired, and sometime before 06h00 the “other” school boards saw fit to declare closure. My gang were able to make a decision, albeit one hour later. Were they waiting for an official translation?
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