It’s been a pretty good day. I made some progress on a press kit for Nancy. Yesterday, I mailed out workshop handouts to 126 students who missed our February technology workshop. One of the parents called me today, concerned that her child might not be attending regularly (false alarm–it was the only workshop she had missed). We got some cool new gear today: an InFocus LP340 digital projector. It rocks. It projects nicely even in full light, it has a nice remote control that doubles as a USB mouse. It even comes with some software to let you do web simulcasts of your projections, not that I’ll ever need that. It’s a good piece of gear. I’m glad I requesitioned it.
I just spent the last half hour tracking down some laptops. Keeping track of who’s got what gear at any moment is not an easy job around here. Neither is making sure that cables and other important components don’t get lost. I’m going to create a PHP/MySQL software/hardware check in/out program next week and start using that to track things. It’s just gotten overwelming. We’re a fairly small program, but even a small program can accumulate a lot of gear (and loose a lot of gear if no one keeps track of it).