Archive for August, 2005

standardized testing is lame

« 31 August 2005 | 19:12 | General | 1 Comment »

After reading this article, http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=38876 I just can’t believe how damn rediculous this whole thing is.
Let’s take a look at what the WASL is all about. Taken from http://www.sbe.wa.gov/faq_pages/WASL.htm
Q: What is the Washington Assessment of Student Learning?
A: The Washington Assessment of Student Learning(WASL) is a means of measuring student achievement of the state’s rigorous [...]



new toys!

« 11 August 2005 | 19:45 | Work | 1 Comment »

So like nick mentioned, we got our new servers today. I took a bunch of pictures of this joyous occasion. Here’s the highlights.

Nick and Pat unpacking the boxes

PowerEdge super stack

The guts

Look at them itty-bitty fans
Can’t remember if anybody has already posted the specs, but here they are again:
- 2.8GHz/1MB Cache, Xeon 800MHz FSB
- [...]