Seeing stars

Posted by Mike Curtin on October 28th 2006 to General      

A high school science teacher brought this to my attention:  http://www.stellarium.org A great example of the potential benefits of open source to schools.  Compared to some of the commercial offerings, Stellarium probably lacks features and polish.  But for the high school science teacher who does a unit on astronomy, it’s “just enough” — you can [...]

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Take Two

Posted by Mike Curtin on October 26th 2006 to General      

This is the second time I’m writing this, my first-ever blog post. I started out with a “Who am I and why am I here?” approach but quickly realized that not many people care and while I don’t know exactly what I want this to be, I DO know what I don’t want it to [...]

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