His first name is Derrial. Keith R. A. DeCandido confirms it on the Browncoats board.

…and if you scroll to page 8 and following of this decision, you’ll see why.

As the Fox blogging community grows, I’m showing up in a smaller and smaller percentage of their blogrolls.

You mean, I actually have to make myself relevant to be linked to? Weird concept.

Bloglines has an annoying habit of re-displaying old articles every now and then. Its latest repost was one of Craig Berntson’s old articles claiming that schools should not save money by running non-MS software.

His argument was that schools needed to teach kids the “basics they need to know to function in life”, and that since most computers in the US were using Microsoft products, the schools would confuse the kids by exposing them to different file formats and UIs.

I disagree. For one thing, the “file format” argument is specious: file formats should be transparent to the end user. More importantly, though, is the idea that kids should be taught only what they need to know. This is wrong. Schools should not teach kids facts, but rather how to learn those facts. Exposing kids to a wider range of OSes and applications helps ensure that they learn the concepts, rather than just which buttons to push. It’s the same argument as “teaching to the test” — sure, the numbers go up, but are the kids really better off?

Edit: oops, forgot the paragraph breaks.

Another edit: hmm, posting to blogspot works fine, what’s the holdup here?