Adventure with Dell Mini 9 (and Windows 7, IE8) – Episode 2

After a good couple of weeks of use, the combination of this Mini 9, Windows 7, and IE 8 has given me a good gauge of what to look forward to.  Granted Windows 7 is still in beta and is likely go through more changes in the coming months, the positive experience is leading me [...]

Textbook science vs real world science

I came from the generation where the scientific process is very linear.  You start with a question or a problem, you observe, you make a hypothesis, you test the hypothesis, you predict an outcome, you observe and measure the outcome to prove or disprove the hypothesis.  Many, like myself, like science for its nature.  But [...]

Adventure with Dell Mini 9 – Episode 1

Actually I’m not sure if there will be more episodes… let’s see how this works out.
Dell had the Mini 9 on sale at the end of Feb. 2009.  After a few months of drooling and researching netbooks, I’ve decided $199 was too tempting to pass up.  3 weeks later, it is here and this is [...]

Evolutionism vs Creationism? Its too late for that.

In reference to the study published last year (May 2008): http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0060124&ct=1  One of the things inferred from the study is that the teachers who are convicted in their beliefs will teach what they believe in, others that are not ended up not knowing how to teach when it comes to the context of evolutionism vs [...]