2007 October 02 archive at Robert Pogson

Archive for October 2nd, 2007

Pogson’s Desktop

Published by Robert Pogson October 2nd, 2007 in Teaching. 0 Comments

I have been told by people with clean desktops that the secret is to never finish the day with anything left on it… Here is my desktop, after I tidied it up…

The pretty yellow flower is a wild orchid that grows in the poplar forests of Canada. It forms a symbiotic relationship with fungi to obtain nutrients from decaying forest litter. In spite of producing many thousands of spores, it reproduces slowly, perhaps taking 25 years for a generation. They pop up and flower before the poplar put out leaves so that they take advantage of the sunshine. Most orchids are tropical but these survive winter air temperatures of -40C by being in contact with earth at near 0C. Flies are the pollinators and the foul smell produced is used to attract flies. The species is Cypripedium parviflorum.

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.