From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Dropbox and ZumoDrive — Two Approaches to Web Storage

February 17, 2009

Dropbox automatically syncs files online and across computers. The service integrates perfectly with native operating system file managers (Explorer on Windows, Finder on Macintosh). Every file in the Dropbox directory is stored on every device connected to the Dropbox account.
The synchronization process is generally very quick (though larger files require more time to upload to [...]

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A School Exercise from George Washington

February 10, 2009

The following is a repetition of a school writing exercise (entitled Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation) completed by George Washington before the age of sixteen (one source I have seen claims that he did so in his fifteenth year). While he was not the originator of the content (it is [...]

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The True Nature of the Public Education System

February 3, 2009

Excerpt from “The Childhood Pattern of Genius”
by Harold G. McCurdy,
professor of psychology, Univ. of North Carolina (published by the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere):
“In summary, the present survey of biographical information on a sample of twenty men of genius suggests that the typical development pattern includes as important aspects:
(1) a high degree [...]

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