March 4, 2008 New Jersey Senate Votes for Leave to Care for Kin

TRENTON - After an unusually emotional debate bursting with political indignation and personal anguish, the State Senate narrowly approved legislation Monday that would make New Jersey the third state in the nation to give employees the right to take paid leave to care ( Read more... )

Tonight my sister busted out her violin. It started with me playing the lines of an early music piece assigned to the class by our teacher. I was thinking I couldn't wait to hear it sung with my classmates when it hit me: I could just ask my sister to sight read the alto line. So she did, and what a pretty sound! I was so pleased, and mighty ( Read more... )

Rad tool of the day: Clip Shack, a video companion to Flickr. For a free membership, you get up to 100 MB of storage, which depending on the size of your videos, can accommodate a tidy collection of clips; premium membership available for a monthly fee. You can specify viewing privileges by choosing between public, friends and 'just me ( Read more... )