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01 Jul, 2010

4 Tips Creating your own Newspaper with the New Google News

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Personal

This is one of the things I love about Google.  You don’t have to wait for updates.  One day you wake up and there is a new Google News layout. 1. News For You – You can now tell your own Google how often you want to read news for each topic you follow. 2. [...]

Let me start this post off with a little story.  I started working in IT about 5 years ago.  One of the downfalls of working with technology is that sometimes you think you can fix anything.  Well… I knew I should be backing up my data and made some paltry CD backups, but never really [...]

This past week has been a hard one for me… and I hope you will excuse this personal blog entry, but my father, Robert VanDrimmelen Jr. passed away this past Saturday. He was only 54 years old, so it was a bit of a surprise.
My Dad was an educator… in every sense of the [...]


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Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.