A few weeks ago I decided I need a web designer in my close friends circle – someone to slap together designs for my half-baked weekend project ideas. So I took the nearest person with an eye for design and convinced her she’d be perfect for redesigning my blog. Completely out of her depth (is usually [...]
This post is aimed at my local readers, the rest can look at it as a curiosity from an awesome small country that is fumbling all over itself trying to be even awesomer. Slave labor We don’t have Mexicans, but we do have students. A whole social caste of people ripe for abuse because they [...]
As I prepare to study for the subject that has been the bane of my existence for the past two years (by writing this blog post instead) I can’t help but draw a comparison between how classes in my real world university are going and the classes I’m taking as part of Stanford’s online experiment [...]
There is probably a trend where I make a post about education every year around October, January and June. It corresponds nicely with the school year and how exams are laid out. But this time the post is going to be different: this is not a rant this does not propose a solution this is [...]
Image via Wikipedia Seriously why aren’t there more teachers in the world? What a bunch of charlatans. But I’m getting ahead of myself in this story. Last week I was doing a lot of freelancing as a teacher and instructor in the dark arts of programming. There was this kid who desperately wanted to get [...]
Image via Wikipedia Have you ever noticed how sometimes a difficult task suddenly becomes childplay? Incredibly easy? Painfully simplistic? This sometimes happens to me and it’s a phenomena so awesome I just had to have a ponder about it. Just why the fuck does that happen? Personally I notice this effect mostly when I’m studying [...]
Last night I watched a bloody amazing video of a university professor who was just oozing awesome. Seriously, this guy is all kinds of cool and I would love to someday have a professor that structures his lectures and classes like this guy does. Now watch the video, I’m not here to blab, I’m here [...]
