In 1948...

• Warner Brothers shows its first color newsreel.


• NBC begins its first nightly newscast.


• Ceylon, later Sri Lanka, gains its independence.


• Hell's Angels is founded.


• Arturo Tosconini makes his television debut with the NBC Orchestra.


• Land Rover makes its first …

Four "B"'s for Successful Blogging

Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of addressing the Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International on the topic of blogging for educators.

Embeddable Google Books

From Lifehacker.com I stumbled across this post on the Google Operating System Blog about a method of embedding Google Books into blogs and web pages...

Google made it easy to embed in a site any book available at Google Book Search. You can add a fully-functional …

The Elements

Over the weekend Laura told me that they were looking for artwork for the new Chemistry Department offices.

Copenhagen @ Furman

This is the "Year of Science" at Furman, and many activities have been planned to highlight the sciences, including dedication of the new Townes Center for Science later this season.

More Upstate Ghosts

While at the Open Book the other evening I picked up a copy of John Boyanoski's More Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina.

Working with Google Calendar

Fall is particularly busy for Laura and me.

Remembering the "Old Fields"

I've come across the term "old field" in place names several times recently.

A bit confused...

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."


• Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.


• If your name is Barack you're a radical, …

Owings Pioneer Days 2008

This morning I was feeling much, much better than I had the past couple of days, so I decided to head down to Owings for their Pioneer Days. I had gone last year and really enjoyed myself, and really didn't want to miss this year's event. It was enjoyable again this …

When was the last time...

...you had a roll of film developed?

For me it's probably last winter.

Photo of the Month

Sciway.net (South Carolina Information Highway) is an outstanding website that has information or links to information to just about anything you would want to know about South Carolina.

Director or Coordinator?

Yesterday the central office staff met to go over our goals for the upcoming school year. Our superintendent talked with us about our roles as directors of our various departments. The emphasis this year is on "customer service" and on how we can play a supporting …

The End of the World As We Know It

I got this e-mail forwarded from Laura.

Children's Graveyard - Followup and History

In my previous post I mentioned that I wasn't able to find much information on Duncan Chapel online.

The Children's Graveyard

Eric from "A Day's Drive from Greenville" recently wrote about a trip he took to the "Children's Graveyard" near Furman University. His descriptions and photos made me want to take a visit for myself, so today I set off in search of this supposedly haunted location.

I …

Dining Disasters

Disaster #1

...Well, not really a disaster, but a lapse in judgement.

Flowgram and BeFunky

I came across a couple of interesting web discoveries this week.

A Night at the Fair

Since it's Labor Day Weekend, the Upper South Carolina Fair must be in town. I decided to wait until Sunday evening to make a visit so I could get pictures of the lights and possibly some long exposure shots.

As I drove over to the fairgrounds it started dumping rain. …