Cell Phones Come to Town
You may not believe this, but I live in a place where there is no cell service. People are usually astounded when I tell them this. Some people are absolutely mortified, wondering how we survive, while others often give me a slow grin, nod and tell me how great it...
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Anybody Have A Little Red Car for Sale?(Warning: this post has nothing to do with education and contains graphic descriptions of man tears and my possibly burgeoning mid life crisis. But hey, I pay the bills around here and so I can write whatever...
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Yacinta’s StoryVideos like this remind me about the importance of education in the world:
Yacinta’s Story: ‘The lengths I went to get an education’ from Camfed on Vimeo.
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5 Years5 years ago today, January 29th, 2005 I wrote my first blog post on Remote Access.
At the time I remember feeling I was late to blogging. I had been reading blogs since the previous summer when they first crossed my radar and I...
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A Simple Search…… Doesn’t really seem so simple anymore.
I picked up on twitter this morning that Howard Zinn had died. Not being familiar with the person, I simply headed over to Google and dropped in his name. What I found there this morning really...
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Real Voices
I remember being a teenager and being bombarded by pictures and videos emerging from desperate areas of the world like Somalia and Ethiopia in the 1980s. Shocking, disturbing and terrible to see, as a young person, these images most likely formed my first...
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Upgrading your NationOver the last decade or so, we’ve seen thousands of jobs disappear from North America to overseas shores due to outsourcing. Call centres, manufacturing and all types of technology jobs, from tax preparation to the reading of x-rays have made the jump...
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