A recent blog entry from the Washington Post site highlights what happens when you have the deadly combination of an incompetent defense attorney and a techno illiterate judge and jury. The story revolves around a teacher accused of showing inappropriate images to students in her classroom. It sounds bad enough, but once you dig into the details, it becomes clear she (1) had no intention of doing it, (2) the images were caused by spyware and/or adware and/or mistyping a web address, (3) she was given bad or no information on how to deal with the scenario. It gets worse when you learn that the school IT department admits the computers were not up to date in terms of security and spyware blocking software (both easy and free to update these days).

Welcome to my blog on technology and education. I am currently a software developer and consultant living and working on Cape Cod. In the past I was also an educator and a scientist working for NASA. I started this website to have a conversation with my neighbors on the Cape, and I hope it serves to foster a greater sense of community for us year-rounders.

My blog will focus on technology and education trends, and I'll start with the latest news from Apple Computer, I mean Apple, Inc. Apple has, of course, officially changed its name, even though it's been clear for some time that they are more than just a computer company. To date, they have sold 2 billion songs on their iTunes store alone. As Steve Jobs said in his keynote address at MacWorld, they sell 5 million songs a day, which is 57 songs a second, every hour of the day.