Taylor the Teacher

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UPDATE: Technorati should make a way where users can find out the average authority level that a particular blog links out to. Could be useful on both sides of the blog.

Eminem should use his MySpace page for a real blog. MySpace is for making connections with people, not selling CDs. Assuming this is Eminem’s my space page. I really don’t know how to tell. Can’t anyone make up a MySpace profile for anyone? But it looks professionally done. Except there’s not much Eminem on it for a MySpace page. I’m not referring to his promotion of 50 Cent, just his method of doing so. If he were blogging in his own voice and interacting with people, I’d know that was his page.

On the subject of MySpace, people with music that plays when you go to their profile should think about the user. I would rather have my ovaries removed with an oyster fork than have to jump out of my chair when someone’s MySpace page or blog starts blaring music at me. Sometimes I have so many tabs open that it takes me a long time to find the culprit. Plus, since windows Vista is so douchetastic (a completely awesome word I read in Anonymous Coworker) and my fucking volume icon is missing from the right corner of the start bar, I basically have to shut down Mozilla to shut the thing up. Me no likey.

People who put double-underlines under random words in the middle of their posts that link to irrelevant shit should remove them immediately.

Software developers should write a quiz-writing program for teachers that doesn’t suck. Online quizzes are neat and all that, but many of us don’t have the luxury of taking kids to a computer lab whenever we need to. I cannot use quiz-writing programs that don’t allow me to print. I want one that will format properly, scramble questions and answers within sections that are themselves scrambled, and then print w/ lots of options so I can save paper. Four or five questions to a page simply does not cut it. Why don’t we already have this? I know it’s not because so many teachers have access to computers all the time and don’t use paper anymore that there’s no market for it. Does your child do more with his thumb-drive than with paper? Take all his quizzes and tests at school online?

I should stop complaining about other people and do some good stuff myself.