Bits & Pieces (Wednesday Night Open Mic)

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Kevin S. Willis

iPad textbooks won’t replace textbooks soon. Heck, I can’t even get an iPad 2 so I can do demonstrations to our school support staff. At least, not yet. 😉

Did a webinar for the new Filemaker features. Had to agree to an NDA, but the demonstration of new features was extremely weak tea compared to what I saw at FileMaker DevCon this year. Alas, with the school merger pending, we may never do another FileMaker upgrade. Still, there’s not a better integrated DB and interface builder around. What, Access you say? Pthpht!

Does money really buy elections? Freakonomics says no.

A primer on 3D printing from TED:

Thomas Dolby talks about, and then performs, One of Our Submarines from his Sole Inhabitant Tour.


I’m a big Thomas Dolby fan. Golden Age of Wireless is a near-perfect album.

Speaking of which, I’ve posted this before but I’m going to post it again, because I love the song. Thomas Dolby’s “Oceanea”.

For anyone with a Spotify account, here’s the link for Thomas Dolby’s “Cruel”, one of my favorite songs from him.

That’s it for tonight. Please talk amongst yourselves. —KW

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And a bleg — please vote in my poll if you haven’t already.  It looks to be very close between Newt and Mitt, though Mitt got a bit of a bounce from the debate Monday night.

— Mike

One more thing to spend time doing: Interactive map of Euro crisis

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