According to this test my Meyers-Briggs Personality Type is Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging (INFJ: 33, 12, 50, 33) This page gives my possible career paths as: Clergy / Religious Work Teachers Medical Doctors / Dentists Alternative Health Care Practitioners, i.e. Chiropractor, Reflexologist Psychologists Psychiatrists Counselors and Social Workers Musicians and Artists Photographers Child Care / [...]

Some cool changes here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html Look at this one! “Associations with a :through option can now use any association as the through or source association, including other associations which have a :through option and has_and_belongs_to_many associations.” From the API Documentation (search for “Nested Associations”) class Author < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :posts has_many :comments, :through => :posts [...]

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali

Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms

Brene Brown on the Power of Vulnerability

This robot from USC moves amazingly. That it is funded by DARPA makes me think twice about what it might be used for.

Stumbling Through Mediocrity

One of James Fallows’ readers comments on teaching to students in China and their obsession with the standardized test (gaokao) that will determine their future. The only thing that matters is the test, and doing well on the test is a matter of memorizing a number of decontextualized facts. The worst affect by far of [...]

I agree with Dick Cheney! Asked for his reaction to Bush’s decision [not to pardon Scooter Libby] Cheney said: “Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and honorable men I’ve ever known. He’s been an outstanding public servant throughout his career. He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice, and I strongly [...]