Google Documents

Poor PZ! Stranded without a working laptop in a strange town! This is the kind of situation that gives me nightmares, so I like to upload presentation materials to the web just in case. Lately, I've been looking at different methods for doing this to see which ones l like the best. A few days ago, I tested this with Scribd. Today, I'm going to see what we can do with Google Docs. TomJoe said that he started using Scribd because he couldn't share things with Google. I use Google docs quite a bit, but I haven't tried to share any documents with more than a few people, so I took at look…
Goodbye desktop, we're off to see the web. Both my students and I have been challenged this semester by the diversity of computer platforms, software versions, and unexpected bugs. Naturally, I turned to the world and my readers for help and suggestions. Some readers have suggested we could solve everything by using Linux. Others have convincingly demonstrated that Open Office is a reasonable alternative. But, now there's something new and cool on the web. Okay, it's still in the beta stages, and apparently it can only be used by a limited number of people at a time, but it's certainly…