It's CUME

I filed stuff for Laura in her students' cumulative folders (a.k.a. their "permanent records") again this year. The teachers call them "Cume Folders," but when emailing you about it, they spell it without the e. Disturbing, I tell ya. When I showed up at the school, Laura handed me a pair of latex gloves for the job. LOL

Third graders are very loud on the last day of school. Just sayin'.
 
So Al and Tipper are breaking up. My theory is that he finally figured out she's a Republican. Come on now. That girl is a right-winger through and through. I cannot imagine getting divorced at that age, to make it that far and then just give it up. It's too bad.

Speaking of the inventor of the internet... AT&T is switching to usage-based internet billing for smartphones. Other phone carriers and home internet will most likely follow in time. Remember when Time Warner attempted it for home internet? Customers freaked and they backed off.

For most people, the AT&T switch does mean a more reasonably-priced data plan for the iPhone (hmm!!), however you now have to eyeball your usage all the time to make sure you aren't going over for the month. Remember when we used to have to monitor our long distance phone calls, because they were charging by the minute? You felt that timer ticking in your head the entire conversation. Often, you cut off the call before you wanted to, because you knew the cost was getting crazy. I imagine that will be me... hesitant to be on the net and counting the kilobytes for every page I bring up.

This new size-obsessed view of the web will also trickle down to website design, as I mentioned when TW was trying it. Web pages are typically small in size, but graphics and videos are not, especially in large numbers. With usage-based internet, the day is coming when sites who want you to visit will need to be small, so your monthly MB allotment doesn't take a hit, and eventually the web will start looking like a bland, jpeg-free collection of Word docs.

YouTube will be the biggest MB drain of all. Oh wait--- iTunes! Yikes. I hate this already.