Tim Ginn’s Personal Blog

I was asked by a friend to pass the following along:

Would you like to be part of the coolest Youth Technology Conference in
Canada?

Find out whether a technology-based undergraduate degree is really for you?

Experience the diverse field that is today’s world of cutting edge
technology?

The 3rd annual National Technology Youth Leadership Conference is taking
place in May 2006, where 150 high school students across Canada will
gather at Queen’s University campus to learn what it means to be a leader
and innovator in the technology sector. This conference has three general
goals:

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Show students what it means to be a leader and innovator in tomorrow’s
world of technology

Use a hands-on, interactive-event style to bring out creativity,
innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit

Show students how to take their technology skills from backpack to
briefcase, and to illustrate the keys to successful career in the
technology sector

This year, the National Technology Youth Leadership
Conference has 150 spots available at the
conference. Each attending student will
have the opportunity to interact with high profile
speakers, experience a taste of the
undergraduate university lifestyle, and
dive into an essential cross-section of the diverse
world of technology. Areas such as technology-based post-secondary
programs, engineering technology, next-generation software
development, start-up technology companies, and technology’s application
to areas such as music, health, and everyday living will be explored.

Information about the conference can be found on our website
www.ntylc.org. If you have any further inquires, please contact us at
by e-mail at delegation@ntylc.org or by
phone at (613) 533-6000 ext. 75754. Thank you for your
time and consideration, we look forward to
seeing your students at NTYLC 2006!

Sincerely,

Alistair MacLean
Ph.D., C.Psych. Vice Dean,Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor of Psychology

David Gallant
NTYLC Director

J.D. Barnes and Helen Xu
Delegate Relation Co-Chair

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National Technology Youth Leadership Conference, Kingston ON, Canada
K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-533-6000 ext. 75754 E-mail: info@ntylc.org

So, as some of you no doubt noticed (because you’re way more careful and up on things than I am at these times) there was a problem with an isolated number of blog entries being repeated over and over again. That’s been fixed now.

Also, you may notice that the site is faster and more responsive and that the RSS feed is a lot quicker to download; this is due to the addition of gzip compression. The openFIRST homepage itself now has these enhancements, too and they’ll be included in the next release of the software distributed to teams. Separately, the RSS feed will now return a 304 code (Document Not Modified) to those browsers who support it if the feed hasn’t changed since they last checked.

Sorry that this update is so brief. For the past 3 days updates of FIRST Blogs were not running properly and in an unrelated matter the featured blogs were not being properly rotated. I’ve fixed both issues now. There’s also a fair number of new blogs which are going to be entered into the queue soon in order to be approved and placed on the site.