July 2009 - Sam Harrelson

Divisible Electrons. Democritus Would Not Be Pleased.

July 31, 2009 July 31, 2009

In a one-dimensional (1D) system of interacting electrons, excitations of spin and charge travel at different speeds, according to the theory of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) at low energies. However, the clear observation of this spin-charge separation is an ongoing challenge experimentally. We have fabricated an electrostatically gated 1D system in which we observe spin-charge …

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AffiliateHack: My New Marketing Blog

July 31, 2009 July 31, 2009

AffiliateHack is a blog about affiliate marketing written by Sam Harrelson. Sam is a longtime veteran of the affiliate marketing industry and previous winner of the Best Blogger award at Affiliate Summit and publisher of ReveNews and CostPerNews. Now Sam brings his unique perspective on affiliate marketing back to blogging form with AffiliateHack. via affiliatehack.com …

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Great Use of Backpack with Pages for Each Day.

July 30, 2009 July 30, 2009

“I have a page set up for each day of the workweek, and I evenly distribute the action tasks for all of my marketing tactics throughout the week. On a given day, I simply click on that day’s page and get to work on the tasks, which are within a handy checklist (see image above …

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Why Hasn’t Someone Made a FriendFeed Client for GMail like TwitterGadget?

July 30, 2009 July 30, 2009

I love TwitterGadget as a fully functioning Twitter client within GMail. Back in the "good old" days of Twitter, we had IM integration so these sorts of tools weren't needed if GMail was a major part of your workflow. However, Twitter took that functionality (and Track) away from users in May '08, so we've been …

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Great Review of @Posterous

July 30, 2009 July 30, 2009

Years of building and maintaining my WordPress blog have resulted in my learning a lot about WordPress and getting a lot of grease under my fingernails. Weeks of using Posterous has resulted in a media-rich blog with several posts per week. Tell me which service is more powerful. via suntimes.com I started using Posterous primarily …

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IB Principles and Auto-Stitch

July 30, 2009 July 30, 2009

Clearly, I’m in love with the Auto-Stitch iPhone app. But here’s some progress on one of the white boards in my classroom with pics of scientists who represent the 10 International Baccalaureate ideals… Sent from my iPhone

GMail vs Backpack

July 29, 2009 July 29, 2009

Now that I’ve decided on Backpack over Evernote as my hub of workflow (see post below), I’m in love with the Journal feature. As a teacher, it’s going to be a fantastic “private Twitter” that will allow me to record, sort and even subscribe (via the RSS feed and Google Reader) to my insights and …

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And the Main Board / Border (finishing tomorrow)

July 29, 2009 July 29, 2009

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Long Day at School. Borders Done (that’s fabric, folks)

July 29, 2009 July 29, 2009

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Making an Offer Soon

July 28, 2009 July 28, 2009

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Dream House in Spartanburg Has This By the Front Door

July 28, 2009 July 28, 2009

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Bomb Shelter in Our Dream House in Spartanburg

July 28, 2009 July 28, 2009

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Classroom Panorama 2

July 28, 2009 July 28, 2009

Thanks again to the awesome Auto-Stitch app… Sent from my iPhone

Classroom Panorama

July 28, 2009 July 28, 2009

Thanks to the Auto-Stitch iPhone app… Sent from my iPhone

Joining Spartanburg Day School

July 27, 2009 July 27, 2009

Sam Harrelson joins the Middle School staff to teach 8th grade physical science, robotics and design technology. He returns to Spartanburg, where he and his wife, Anna, graduated from Wofford, following a circuitous route that began with earning a Master’s degree from Yale University, continued with successful forays into the world of business technology and …

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From Evernote Back to Backpack

July 27, 2009 July 27, 2009

I’ve been a longtime Evernote member going back to March ’08 (and then a paying Premium member since June ’08 shortly after they opened that functionality), but I just can’t figure out the best way to integrate the service into my workflow. I’ve certainly tried because I do see so much potential in the product. …

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The Kids Are Alright

July 27, 2009 July 27, 2009

Children are unconsciously the most rational beings on earth,” says Alison Gopnik, “brilliantly drawing accurate conclusions from data, performing complex statistical analyses, and doing clever experiments.” And not only does empirical work reveal this about babies and small children, but what is thus revealed throws light on some of philosophy’s more intriguing questions about knowledge, …

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listening to “Josh Ritter – Girl in the War”

July 27, 2009 July 27, 2009

listening to “Josh Ritter – Girl in the War” “Peter said to Paul, ‘Remember all those words we wrote?…’” for @thomasjwhitley (DEG would’ve loved)

FriendFeed Catchup in GMail

July 26, 2009 July 26, 2009

I absolutely love FriendFeed's GMail IM integration. It's how I consume most of my FriendFeed content as well as lots from my favorite folks on Twitter that I have piped into FF via the Imaginary Friends (now Rooms) feature. So, if I miss a few hours and want to catch up on what is going …

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Pig Tails Or Devil Horns?

July 26, 2009 July 26, 2009

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