Its bad enough as a New Yorker with kids in the public school system that I'm subjected to endure a completely foreign and utterly incomprehensible overhaul of an educational system that for all of it's misgivings generally wasn't absolutely backwater. I mean, I don't seem to be too deficient in the smartness category. However the Powers that Be have concluded that their latest teaching methods, which incidently practically omits conventionally teaching the multiplication tables and also opt to teach kindergardeners on a first grade level (did I mention that kindergarden isn't a mandatory grade level yet—so if your child didn't attend neither it nor pre-kindergarden they'll be hopelessly behind compared to children who did) and so on up the system. In the end, I don't think they really thought their plans through before implementing this well intended philosophy.
Enter Congress and their idea to conserve energy. Another good intention marred by poor organization and execution. As it happens they didn't take measures to ensure that electronic and computer systems were prepared with updated patches with the new three week early change in daylight savings time. Folks are once again scrambling to their ATM's with cries of Y2K revisited, but according to Business Week, we need fear not. They have in their article titled Tips for the Daylight Savings Headache links to check for updated patches for both Microsoft and Macintosh systems. You can, of course, also check directly through either Apple or Microsoft for these same updates. One can hope that it will be a seamless transition tomorrow, but be on hand to check all your gadgets the next morning to be certain that everything transitioned properly. Better safe than late.
Enter Congress and their idea to conserve energy. Another good intention marred by poor organization and execution. As it happens they didn't take measures to ensure that electronic and computer systems were prepared with updated patches with the new three week early change in daylight savings time. Folks are once again scrambling to their ATM's with cries of Y2K revisited, but according to Business Week, we need fear not. They have in their article titled Tips for the Daylight Savings Headache links to check for updated patches for both Microsoft and Macintosh systems. You can, of course, also check directly through either Apple or Microsoft for these same updates. One can hope that it will be a seamless transition tomorrow, but be on hand to check all your gadgets the next morning to be certain that everything transitioned properly. Better safe than late.
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