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iPad News Abounds... Will AT&T Follow This Lead? Hopefully...

 Electronista is reporting that a telco in Austria will [potentially] be subsidizing the new Apple iPad when it is released. Here is a direct link to that article. 3 Austria to subsidize iPad, bundle 3G modems? | Electronista

What I find interesting is this information:

Rather than wait for the April availability of 3G units, 3 will also initially sell the iPad with a Huawei i-Mo router.

Now that is a cool alternative... I have also wondered about the possibility of simply getting a Wifi only iPad and then use say a Mifi or different cellular router for 3G connectivity... this could open up all kinds of possibilities (even for group work). I guess it all depends on the cost. I have been a very long time AT&T Wireless customer (since 1989) and while I have had some frustration at times, overall I have been quite happy with both the cellular and data service I have received. Now am I paying too much? Well, we all think that. Do I want to add another $30 of data services into my account? Honestly, no. I already pay $60 for my 2 iPhones, and to pay $90 is ridiculous... On that same line of thought, I cannot see the sense of having a device that is purely tied to wifi. Hey, I might find myself in a park with my boys, then how do I remain connected with the world...

What would I like to see? The ability to bluetooth my iPad to my iPhone and leverage my data pack that way. (or I would be willing to pat an additional $10/mth to use both my iPhone and iPad with the same data package, but not another $30...

Additionally, I think that we are all amazed at the pricing of the iPad... but seriously Apple a $130 premium for a 3G chip that costs $12-$22 depending on what you read? Do you really need a $100 profit on a single chip? Or is this a subtle way to help AT&T keep iPad owners off their network?

Regardless, I want an iPad, my wife wants an iPad... many many folks I know want an iPad... So I don't where this study is coming from...

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I read this article this morning, and my thoughts began to spin out of control on some of the other possible applications of the iPad. Now if I could only figure out how to patent or trademark my thoughts and profit while others can actually make them a reality.

Thoughts about Computers for Students

Earlier today, I had a friend ask for my opinion about getting some sort of computing device for their son/daughter to take to college. Since this is a question I get asked A LOT, I thought that I would get something down here for a more permanent reference. In sincerity, it really is up to the family on what they would like to purchase.

The overall guidance that I can provide is: what does the student and family wish to accomplish with this laptop/netbook. Is it going to simply be email / word processing / powerpoint etc? or is the intent to be able to accomplish more like video editing, recreational gaming, and specific applications for any accommodations like text enhancers, etc.  Shoot for the platform that will accommodate the most challenging thing (i.e. gaming will tax a computer much more than word processing).

One thing I would strongly advise is to increase to the largest capacity battery as possible. While this will add some weight to the machine, being able to get through and entire day (or as close as possible) is much more effective than say a 17" screen. Personally, if I was looking at something for my child, I would look to something light yet capable. They might try to sway me differently with more power for gaming, or something else, but really... why are you buying the computer? To get them through the rigor of college, not a lan party for Friday night fragfest...

Here are a couple more thoughts I have:

• I would increase the RAM memory to it possible maximum (typically 2GB or 4GB) as this make the system faster.
• I would have it running Windows 7. It is very good, allows for the use of all windows-based software, and runs extremely well on netbooks.
• Depending on cost I would attempt to opt for a Solid State Drive (SSD) and not a hard drive even though the drive size would be a big tradeoff. You can typically find SSD's in a size of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64 GB, and maybe more 128GB or 256GB but the last 2 will be VERY EXPENSIVE and not worth the cost.
  • That said, for the same price or cheaper there will be 120GB and 160GB (or more) machines with hard drives in them as opposed to a solid state drive. While some will look at the tradeoff as disk size, I look at it as weight and power consumption. A traditional hard drive takes a lot of power to spin the disks inside. An SSD has no moving parts to breakdown or use energy when the PC is not actually writing to the disk. Therefore, its battery use is WAY lower. Hence more time without having to plug in. Last thought on drive size - While 8GB or 16GB may be very low, you can always attach a very cheap external hard drive when necessary to provide that additional storage or use an internet based storage (Microsoft's SkyDrive web based storage is FREE and allows for 25GB of storage that can be accessed anywhere there is an internet connection.
• Size. Screen size = weight and lower battery life.
  • Depending on the challenges of the student (if any) a 10" Netbook with a screen resolution of 1024X600 (or more) should be adequate. Students with visual challenges should really opt for at least a 15" screen (more weight and lower battery time, but visual enhancement really requires the additional screen space to be effective.

Many of the folks who ask about this subject, often begin to debate the merits of one manufacturer over another.  Frankly, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba... really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.  Also, while I would recommend getting your hands on one to test or play with at a store as each will have small quirks different keyboard sizes, different perks like webcams, biometric scanners, popup keyboard lights or an illiminated keyboard, etc., buying via the web is a better choice than buying retail typically. Why I say this is the standard retail markups will apply, AND typically they will point you back to the manufacturer as opposed to providing any type of service once you get it out the door anyway...

For those of you who are data oriented, PC Magazine recently posted a survey on Laptop Reliability. The second thing I would have you consider is the levels of customer service provided by said PC company... Remember you get what you pay for... if you consider a $300 netbook as "disposable" (I do) consider hard that PC manufacturers may feel the same way and provide service accordingly... Here is a link to a NYTimes article on PC manufacturers customer service ratings... It is not hard to see why Apple tops those standings. (For one Apple is NOT racing PC companies to the bottom on cost...)

If you are looking for more information or have suggestions on updates for this post, please comment here to share your thoughts.  Also, I am making a huge assumption with this post... Most likely in error, but one that I am comfortable with as MOST parents buying systems for college kids are really looking at cost vs. benefit... (and shooting for the lowerst cost... hey, most of us are trying to pay for some of the college expenses too...) That said, If you are looking truly at cost v. benefit, and longterm viability do NOT leave Apple out of your considerations. They WILL be the most expensive, but you might just get the most bang for your buck overall... but that is a different post...

Finally, on January 27th, 2010 a new option entered this frey... the iPad.  Prior to that date, everything I posted above, would have been the best way to go about considering a student device... the iPad may be a game changer for outbound college students and for high school students as well. I can;t really comment more until I get my hands on one, but I really think that the PC/Laptop landscape is positioned for huge changes... I'll post more on this in late-March and then again in April when the iPad goes retail.

Tags: apple, netbook, dell, hp, lenovo, toshiba, asus, acer, recommendations, iPad

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Testing of MarsEdit

[update... I know already?!] apparently, I need to figure out how to add line breaks as most of this is nice little paragraphs in the preview window in MarsEdit2, however everything is all run together after you get to the quote... definately not wysiwyg...) Ok, I don't like needing to force a line break with the "BR" html code... well... [update 2] it looks like line breaks are really not enough... I need to break my thoughts into "P/P" paragraphs (I would have put the actual html, but you would not have seen it as MarsEdit2 does not have a function to allow for code to be part of a blog post... more strikes against it...

Since I got my MBP, I have been looking for an offline blog editor. While I don't mind editing with the online TypePad, I really prefer a much more robust editor. Unfortunately, coming from the PC side, I don't think that there is a great MAC alternative to Windows Live Writer and I am not alone:

From Microsoft's Social Forums, to many bloggers: PakPoint, TechCrunch, Daniel Winter, Mountain Vista, SuperSite for Windows, to folks who went and boot campped to run a virtualization tool to get Windows on their MAC to be able to use Windows Live Writer: DragonStyle, WLW via VMWare hereand others...

I loved running across this comment:

Windows Live Writer is so far-and-away the best desktop blogging tool. I switched to a Mac this year and have tried every free and paid tool out there. Nothing on Windows or Mac even comes close for any price and they’re giving it away. I wish that they would either make a Mac version or the folks at Code Weavers would support it. Running Parallels for one app is such a drag.
.-= Christopher Masiello

So, I am now trying a number of different MAC-based offline blogging engines: Obviously, this was created with MarsEdit, but I will also be trying Blogo, Qumana, Ecto, and even online tools like Zoho Writer (which can be run offline). Hopefully, I will be able to land on a single tool that will allow me to feel comfortable on and offline.

As opposed to running through a full review here, I am simply going to post a couple of links to other reviews as they pretty much sum most of the interesting bits up. Here's one on MarsEdit 2 v.s. Ecto 3, and Mashable's top 10 roundup.

So, what do I think... Now I have found MarsEdit2 to be pretty user friendly. As you can see in my screen shot above, MarsEdit runs in multiple windows... which makes for an interesting tine to say the least. You have your composing window where all of the actual input is made. You can publish to multiple blogs, choose whether you want to have the full text on the main page, or use an "extended" version where an excerpt is placed on your main pace, and the remainder of the post in on the permalink page. You have access to your categories, but there is not a way to create a new category. While not a mandatory thing, it is nice to have that feature honestly. There is also server options regarding your post.

Through the composing window you have the ability to open a preview of your post (very nice as you are composing in html - with no real wysiwyg to speak of), and to open a Media window to add pictures and video into your posts. While there is direct integration with Flickr (nice) I do have complaint as there is no way to link/embed an image that is already on the web (which you also cannot do from TypePad's online editor either... ggrrr...). You CAN drag and drop an image into your post, or the media window, (slick) but after that the media manager wants to upload the photo to your blog as opposed to simply embedding from the web. A needless waste of space in my opinion.

But, the text markup drop down to the left here is quite user friendly especially for adding hyperlinks.

While MarsEdit2 seems to accomplish the task, it cannot leverage tags or as mentioned create categories (which I need to for this post :0( ), text is abutted right to images (not so pretty in my opinion) and border color is not easily changed... It leaves me preferring to simply use TypePad's online editor to accomplish the same tasks. The online editor even provides a bit more robustness actually which is sad.

On a side note, I received an email from TypePad this evening, and apparently they have a beta version out there that DOES allow for link/embed's to online images! Swaheet! I have asked to be allowed to take part in the beta. I'll let you know what I find (if I can).

Ok, Next Post will leverage Qumana to see its capabilities and how it compared to MarsEdit2.

Is it socially acceptable to find new twitter friends "cliques"?

This morning I have been going through an interesting exercise which led me to this post.  Well, I guess really some unreconciled guilt or apprehension really led me to this post... Either that or this post is being created in a way to justify, defend, and reduce / eliminate said guilt. Thinking about it... maybe it is to attempt to figure out where this guilt/apprehension comes from as well. 

Like any social network, whether in person or virtual, Twitter is a reflection of the overall mores of society itself.  I think back to the times when I was in high school... somehow as kids we simply fall into "cliques" those little social groups where we feel accepted, even occasionally revered. However, in their nature "cliques" are small closed systems that are difficult to get into and often just as difficult to get out of really... Do you remember times with you were looking out at another "cliques" and wondering what it would be like to be part of that group? Perhaps you even got up the nerve to walk over the the group, but simply stood "outside the circle" waiting for that socially acceptable time to attempt to be recognized and/or find the crack in the in that closed group where you could begin to squeeze out a possible place for yourself... Looking for that eye contact, attempting to recognize that small non-verbal head nod or chin flick of possible acceptance by one of the "inner circle." In that rare time that you were lucky enough to possibly be acquainted with one of the members and hoped that they would "vouch" you with the group... Unfortunately, I think that we all have that one person we know who appears to simply fit in with ALL of those "cliques" that are surrounding us... Remember relishing the desire to be(come) that person?! Standing in awe as you watched them simply flit from "clique" to "clique" with complete acceptance and almost a deference by all the members of those little closed societies? Wondering how it was so easy for them - what made that possible? 

Unfortunately, I also remember some of the other feelings associated with social mores where groupings are concerned... Like when you move between groups, and you become an outsider to the group you left regardless of whether you wanted to or not... the hope of the possibility of simply bridging the groups, or even dare you think merging the groups... are few and far between... What about when it all crashes apart... you miss that window of opportunity to get involved enough with the "new clique" before the "old clique" closes to you and you are simply left as an outsider to both and feeling very alone... 

These feeling are very real and they shape our personalities perhaps even defining them in the strongest of cases.  Overall, we will ALWAYS remember which is why we always crave that feeling of pure and complete acceptance. 

The virtual social worlds are truly no different... like everything else that touches technology the one difference is speed and range of connection.  You can easily see how cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, and hopefully cyber-acceptance if very real and buried deep in IRL social mores. 

(SideNote: sincerely I did not start out this post with this line of thought or intention... wow that might be a completely different post in the future... So, back to the topic at hand...)

So, understanding both aspects of this social mores that I seem to be crawling through here, I hope that you have some background on my trepidation as I embarked upon re-defining my Twitter (and possibly) Facebook accounts.  I have truly enjoyed, revered, and learned from every single person that I have followed, but lately, I have been feeling stale, and personally, I'll admit I have not been giving back to this group.  I see the great ideas many are putting forth, but to me it is coming across as chaff in the breeze. interesting to occasionally beautiful, but fleeting and quickly forgotten... There is a "sipping the same kool-aid" feeling and because of that I am feeling a decidedly lack of challenge of thought.  Please believe me when I say: I know this is not the fault of the "clique" I have grown to love, but it truly is my fault in desiring a different view that will cause me to challenge MY THINKING, MY BELIEFS, MY ACTIONS... Heehee, maybe I am simply feeling an early spring cleaning of my head is necessary...

So, I know that I am looking out over the top of a great group and wondering "what are those folks over there doing?" Maybe I am hoping to be that "guy" who can simply weave in and out of different social groups... I know that I am not really looking for a greener pasture, and I do have a very real concern about being that poor soul trapped outside of both groups and alone... However, I also know that I cannot stay where I am feeling the way that I do... To do that I am not helping anyone especially myself. I am struggling to "keep learning" where I know so much of the material (discussions, topics, tools, challenges, visions)... I want to find a new perspective or lens with which I can re-examine my beliefs, tools, challenges, and vision. I hope that finding this will allow me to become a stronger contributing member to all groups so I can begin giving back again.

Well, if you have made it through my self-justification... I hope to "catch an eye," find that opening, get a small nod of acceptance as I embark on following a new crowd... Perhaps one of you will even act as a patron into a new way of thinking... and when I come back around, I hope I will be welcomed back with open arms...

Scott

The image above is called Outsider Screenshot 1 by bdgamers on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdgamersnet/142765512/ - The reason I wanted to use it was the full-circle aspect... I am wondering if no matter who I follow on twitter, will I simple come full circle in my thinking?

ICE 2010 - Workshop Registration Closing Soon...

 

Workshop Registration Closes on February 3!

There are only a few days remaining if you plan to sign up for any of the remaining full-day or half-day workshops at ICE Conference 2010. Workshop registration will close on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, so if you are interested in enrolling in any of the workshops that still have some seats remaining, we encourage you to act soon before they fill. Remember that if you are also planning to attend one or both of the general conference days, you can register for all of these events at one time by visiting our online registration system.

There are still openings in several workshops that cover a wide range of topics and grade levels. If you are looking to become more proficient in the use of software applications, you can find workshops on Joomla, Dreamweaver, Moodle, VoiceThread, GarageBand, iWork, and many others. Since workshops are structured as "hands on" learning experiences, you will be able to try out all of the tools and features while the ideas are fresh in your mind.

If you are more interested in exploring concepts that are not tied to specific software applications, the list of available workshops includes topics such as building school web sites, creating online learning modules, using geocaching as a learning experience, creating your own audiobooks, and incorporating blogs and wikis into classroom activities. Sessions on social networking sites, open source software, video production, Google resources, and Internet safety also have a few remaining seats.

Remember that if you register for a half-day workshop that meets from 10:00 am-12:30 pm on Thursday or Friday, you are also registered for all other general conference events for that day. You can attend the Keynote presentation before the workshop and sit in on other breakout sessions or visit the Exhibit Hall after the workshop.
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ICE Conference 2010: A Learning Odyssey
Dates: February 23-26, 2010, at Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center in St. Charles, Illinois
Read more about conference registration guidelines at
http://www.iceberg.org/ice_conference/registration
or click this link to take you directly to the online registration form.

Where Would You Rather Be?

I woke up this morning (which was a good thing :0) and was checking the weather via the Weather channel iPhone app when my wife asked that I check the L.A. weather as well. Now don't be thinking she has some fancy trip planned. She had heard about some recent tornadic weather there and wanted to see if it was still occurring. I am happy to say it is not, but check out what I did see:


Now, when you compare this to the burbs of Chicago weather, maybe we are not doing so bad after all.


Global warming... - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:River Dr,Algonquin,United States

Ouch... Only 4 Days...

Ugh... My reader is out of control after only 4 days... Since we learned about my father-in-law beig rushed to the emergency room Monday afternoon, I have not had the tine or the energy to cull through my newsfeeds and this is the result.


On a good day, I typically spend 45 minutes to an hour a day keeping current on a number of topics: 4 feeds on Apple, about 40 educational feeds, 5 personal feeds (friends and family blogs, Zoho, and a few others), and 2 technology aggragate feeds, for a total of about 80 total feeds plus any hot topics like Haiti. So, when I am unable to graze through for a day it is a bit of a strain... Four days... Overwhelming... - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:W Pearce Blvd,Wentzville,United States

Learning the Power of Apple Products - [updated]

[update] We checked out of the hotel today to move to my father-in-law's house for the next day or so.  He is doing better. They took him off of the ventilator and his temp is down to 99.  His breathing is labored, but slowing and his white blood count is is still very high but coming down.  We arrived this afternoon and I needed to check email... enter my Airport Express again.  I pretty much repeated the process I went through at the hotel hardwiring into his secured Cisco wireless router.  I went back through the Airport Express hard-restart and bridged into the Cisco network. In less than 5 minutes here is what I saw:

  

Unfortunately, yesterday my father-in-law recently fell very ill.  We are still not sure of the cause, but part a contributing factor to the illness was gall stones. However, somehow he got a massive infection which cause his body to go into septic shock.  

At the moment, he is stabilizing but not anywhere out of the woods.  So, yesterday we pulled the family together and drove to St. Louis to be with him.  Opposed to descending on any of the relatives in the area, we chose to go to a hotel near the hospital.  The Hilton Garden Inn, O'Fallon has been wonderful hosts for my family.  With free wifi to all of the rooms, and high-speed broadband access via a cabled connection as well into every room access (which was crucial) we are able to maintain contact with work and family back in Illinois.

Because I did not know where we would be staying, at my father-in-law's house (who has wireless, but it is secured, and I had a strong feeling that his wife would not know the password) in a hotel with/without wifi, etc. I wanted to be prepared so I brought my slightly bigger than pocket sized Airport Express wireless N router.

Finding out that all of the rooms had wifi was a relief until I saw that they were still using unsecured wireless G... nice but unsecured and not so fast anymore.  The positive for the hotel was that they provided a 10/100 hardwired data cable if you wanted to work at the desk they provided. Knowing that I really like to relax... and tinker... when I am writing etc and that I wanted to have a secured wifi connection. I did what any good geek would do... I setup my own little secured wireless N 5Ghz network :0).  

The first thing that I needed to do to factory reset my router.  So, I plugged my AX into power, and then plugged the ethernet cable into the AX.  This connected my Airport Express (AX) to the hotel network.  Then to allow me to "bridge" my network into the hotel's hardwired network, I decided to perform a hard reset to restore the factory settings of the Airport Express. On the bottom of the AX, is a pinhole reset button.  (see image to right) Then, I opened up the Airport Admin Utility on my MacBook Pro (windows version available) and began reconfiguring the AX to bridge the hotel network.

Basically the AX Admin Utility walks you through the process.  When you first start you have a few choices:

• Create a new wireless network.
• Join a wireless network.
• Replace an old wireless base station with this Airport Express.

What I wanted to do was to create a new wireless network.  Since the hotel routers were going to be handing out the ip addresses (and each of the PC's were going to be required to "authenticate" to the hotel web browser based security) I chose to "Bridge" the networks together and to allow the AX to simply handoff information as opposed to creating a "Shared" access point where the computer I was on would "pretend" to have the same ip address as the AX itself. After selecting "bridge" and clicking next, I enabled a secure password and the Airport grabbed an ip address from the hotel's routers and saved the new configuration by restarting.

 Then I went back into the Airport Admin Utility and "manually" re-configured the "Radio mode" under the wireless settings to enable only a 5GHz N radio and poof. Wireless secure network setup.  All is well, I don't have to shared an open 54MB access, I have an N 144/300MB network (144mb running dual N/G radios or 300MB 5GHz N only radios... nice. See below for screens:

    

Now, I am sure that I could have achieved a similar setup with a different wireless N router.  However, I had my Airport Express network up and running in less than 5 minutes. I have worked with Linksys, Cisco, D-Link, and Netgear routers in the past, and they take more than five minutes to configure, especially to bridge a completely different network structure and I am not sure if all of those products could pass through a browser based hotel authorization system as easily.  So, the moral of the story here is: YES, FREE WIFI in a hotel is really a wonderful thing and something that should be a given in this day and age... however, an unsecured connection could create havoc for business people whose need for secure data is a whole lot greater than mine. If you have the need for a new wireless router, or are considering upgrading to N I'd recommend looking at Apple's Airport Express solution.  Yes, it does work with the PC, in fact when I bought mine to act as a wireless "receiver" for AirTunes I only had PC's in the house...

Haiti's Tragic Earthquake - 01/11/2010

Families of Americans living in Haiti are encouraged to contact the State Department at 888-407-4747

[Information] This is going to be a building post... I wanted to get something started about relief and information regarding the tragic earthquake in Haiti. I don't want this to be simply a document of the tragedy there will be plenty of those posts, news stories, editorials, and more.  I'd like it to build as a line of support for anyone who might find it. My plan is to have a few RSS feeds in the post if possible as well as contact information for relief organizers... more to come. If you have links or other information, please post them in the comments and I will incorporate them into the post in future updates.

[Disclaimer] Like many, I currently feel that I want to help in any way I can.  I also feel impotent in actually being able to find any way to effect that support. I know that there will be many schools, churches, groups, and individuals that will begin organizing and mobilizing their students, parishes, members, co-workers, teams and themselves to begin collecting food, clothing, and the other basic necessities of life to somehow ship these items to Haiti to provide any relief they can... I want to let you know right now that I will NOT be one of you... 

Now before you curse me out, drop my feed, post irrational negativity or profanity please let me present my viewpoint.  As I mentioned, I want to help in any way that I can, however, I do not believe with the extreme devastation that we are coming to understand has occurred in Haiti that small group "care packages" can or will get into any Haitian hands. There is just no feasible vehicle to effect that possibility.  While it may make those of you who wish to participate in this manner "feel" like you are doing something or make you "feel" better that you helped, I sincerely believe that all of those efforts are going to sit and spoil on a dock on the US coast or in a warehouse somewhere, or be stolen/looted eventually for someone else's gain not the actual Haitians in need. 

So, what am I going to do and recommend others do? Provide donations (preferably monetary) to the large international relief organizations like the Red Cross.  InterAction is an NGO that has put together a list here that lists the major organizations who have the proper trained personnel and organization to get relief to the Haitian people. (Even then I recommend going with well known BIG organizations) or with the US Government assistance lines.

How Can You Help: 

The Center for International Disaster Information has a page up for Haiti with recommendations and a plea NOT to send clothing.  Click here for their recommended appropriate donations.

Contribute online to the Red Cross, by choosing the International Relief Fund.  You can also donate easily by texting "HAITI" to "90999" and $10 will be charged to your cell phone bill each time you text that message. 

What Happened:

CNN and the BBC are providing some of the most complete coverage.  Here are direct links to their sites:

• CNN Haiti Earthquake Coverage
• BBC Haiti Earthquake Coverage

Also the Wikipedia article for the 2010 Haiti Earthquake is rapidly being updated.

"The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 M_w earthquake centred approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, which struck at 16:53:09 or 04:53:09 PM local time (21:53:09 UTC) on Tuesday 12 January 2010.^[6] The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). The United States Geological Surveyrecorded a series of aftershocks, fourteen of them between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9.^[7] The International Red Cross has stated that as many as 3 million people have been affected by the quake,^[8] with as many as 500,000 deaths according to the prime minister.^[9] (Current estimate, may get higher or lower over time)"

Here is a link to the USGS information on the Haiti 7.0 Magnitude earthquake. From the USGS site, here is the "Shake Map" which indicates the violence experienced at the surface of the earth.

News and Information on the 2010 Haiti Earthquake from around the World

(coming soon)

Saw this first thing this morning... Funny I don't remember my driver's ed teacher showing me the proper techniques for using a drive thru?!