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Kind of a depressing NYTimes article about the job market for teachers:

Teachers Facing Weakest Market in Years

In the month since Pelham Memorial High School in Westchester County advertised seven teaching jobs, it has been flooded with 3,010 applications from candidates as far away as California. The Port Washington District on Long Island is sorting through 3,620 applications for eight positions — the largest pool the superintendent has seen in his 41-year career.

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Kind of a cool article on CNN. I think I knew most of these things, but was still surprised by a couple.

Green myths debunked

Interesting article in the NYTimes. Been watching this unfold over the past few years, let's see if the law goes into effect, and whether people abide by it or not:

Pressure Grows on Spain to Curb Digital Piracy

Got a call from a good ex-colleague and friend tonight, Aaron. He is doing well, it was good hearing from him.

Weather is finally up to reasonable levels, nothing summery yet, but decent, didn't have to take a coat to work today, a regular track jacket was fine. Time to eat some dinner and read the papers, see if they have anything interesting.

Google seems to be now in trouble as well over data, geez, what were they thinking picking up all that data from wifi networks. Not sure I buy they claim that it was a "programming error", bah. I also saw earlier that a new PSP is about to come out, and it's supposed to have incredible specs, cool. I have always been a fan of Sony's portable console, bought one of the first units to come out when it hit the market years ago, and I still have it.