Well I had no intention of doing so, but yesterday I went out and bought an Apple iPad. I’m happy to say that I love it so far, and am even writing this blog entry from the WordPress application. My favorite part about it is that I can sync my Google calendar with the native calendar, which is new since I last played with my iPhone. (Upgraded to a Google Droid a while back.) I’m also loving the Appigo ToDo application, which is even better on the iPad than it was on the phone. I even like the Kindle reader, though I will have to try reading for a long period of time before I can see if it will really replace the actual Kindle. Anyway, I’m back in the Apple iCult for now.
DonorsChoose.org is a charitable giving organization that I have been contributing to for a few years now, and I just wanted to take a minute and say how great I think it is. It’s one of the few charities that offers donors the opportunity to choose exactly what their contributions are spent on. The “projects” are all proposals from public school teachers. You can search and identify particular projects based on your own criteria: poverty of the classrooms, subject matter, age groups, etc. are all searchable items, and the descriptions of the projects let you know exactly where it goes.
Education is such an important thing for children to get, and especially in high poverty areas they just don’t have the same chance. I believe strongly that this is the kind of cause that individuals should be able to solve and the government should stay out of, and this is one of the areas where I “put my money where my mouth is.”
I hope you’ll take a look at the site and see if it’s the kind of thing you would be interested in supporting as well.
