Help!

I’m looking for Anne who used to have a domain at Fishbucket. Do any of you know where to find her? I miss reading her!

I was actually kind of impressed with the accuracy of this one:

This may seem petty, but I’m getting pretty tired of fielding e-mails about my husband’s true crime blog mistakenly sent to me. Is it too much to ask that if you feel strongly enough about something to e-mail someone that you bother to send it to the right person? Any future misdirected mail will be your problem. You can contact Steve using his contact form (see sidebar on his site) or through this e-mail address (remove (AT) and replace with @).

The AP reports:

Before they can even read, almost one in four children in nursery school is learning a skill that even some adults have yet to master: using the Internet. Some 23 percent of children in nursery school — kids age 3, 4 or 5 — have gone online, according to the Education Department. By kindergarten, 32 percent have used the Internet, typically under adult supervision.

Can you believe that? What are kids that age looking at on the Internet? I have taken Maggie to look at things on Nick Jr., but I didn’t really think there was much out there for the under-5 set. Maybe I’ve been shortsighted, though. I don’t see why I couldn’t let Maggie dictate e-mails to relatives. They’d love it, and I’ll bet she’d like the replies.

I didn’t go online until my twenties, because there basically wasn’t any “online” to go to until then, but my own children won’t remember life without the Internet. In some ways, I find, as a teacher, that students don’t really know how to use print sources and become quickly frustrated if they don’t find what they’re looking for. In some cases, it doesn’t occur to them to consult a book! I worry that this trend could continue. The more dependent we seem to become on technology, the more enslaved we become to it. Think about this: your ancestors 150 years ago got by just fine without electricity and running water. I think this kind of technological progress is interesting, and I think it is good, but I hope it doesn’t prevent students from being able to use books.

I think Microsoft has something to worry about. Firefox usage is on the rise.

I just checked my statistics, and 64% of visitors to my site use Firefox. Of course, that includes my own visits: checking my entries for errors, accessing my blogroll. IE users have dropped to 31%, with Mozilla and Netscape at 3% and 2% respectively. A few months ago when I first downloaded Firefox, I noticed only a few visitors to my site used it — in fact, the Firefox users were basically limited to Crankydragon and me. I don’t know what kind of numbers Firefox is looking at in the grand scheme of things, but this article cites a study that found that Firefox gained a 4.6% share in the two months since Version 1.0 was released.

Of course I have gone on at length about my feelings about the browser. If you use it, what do you think? If you haven’t tried it yet, why not?