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People don’t know how to search on the internet

February 15, 2008 · 2 Comments

One of the features of wordpress is that it shows you what search engine terms were used to reach your blog. Perusing these has proved quite humorous and baffling – baffling first off, because people search for ridiculous things, and secondly because somehow these odd searches reach my blog.

Here are some choice searches as of late:

“drama for teaching energy”  — and what are you trying to teach this energy? How to do drama? Or are you using drama to teach it? And, more importantly, could we harness the energy, once taught, and use it to reduce our reliance on coal generated power?

“learn from this project” — and which project are you speaking of?

“furnace blasted 60 degrees” –fahrenheit or celsius? That makes a big difference. What were you hoping to find with this search? People with a common affliction for tropical temperatures indoors in the winter?

“classroom activity teaching students” — if this is your starting point for teaching students, I fear for the state of education.

“will chris ever take me home today?” — are you using Google as your own personal magic eight ball? And, if you are, is it reliable? What did it say? Will he? (It should be noted that my page is the FIRST to come up when you search this phrase, narrowly beating out a tabloid article on Paris Hilton. Take that, Paris.”

Oh my.

Categories: Personal
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$100 Laptops?

September 27, 2007 · 6 Comments

Here’s good news — The $100 laptop designed for use in developing countries isn’t selling like the founder had thought. Just another example of westerners imposing a need on those in impoverished countries – solving a problem that didn’t need to be solved. How about designing a $100 water purifying system that makes water safe to drink? Kills giardia?

C heck out the story below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/27/guardianweeklytechnologysection.olpc

Categories: Global Issues
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