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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Logged into Flickr to upload some pictures.
The site tells me my premium account is going to expire in 6 days, and asks me if I want to buy another year.
Go through the usual "confirm your card details" dance.
After clicking the final submit, am told "Sorry, there is a temporary problem. ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
But the result was worthwhile: you can now view a super-tree showing the evolution of the dinosaurs, or read about its creation. I think it's beautiful:
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Oh dear --- I have fallen behind again.
MyTTC.ca is up (Jorge's comments are more coherent than mine). Should this be the starting point for student projects in my fall CSC301 Software Engineering course?
The science maps at Eigenfactor are pretty cool --- this post talks about what's going on behind the ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Twenty lines of Python, an Excel chart, and here we are:
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
From the OSCON'08 schedule:
People for Geeks
People, whether other geeks or “normal” people, we’re bad at them. They’re such an important part of our lives and jobs and the point of all the technology we love so much. Misunderstandings between people can be the root cause of so many vast, deep, ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Nice post by John Cook.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Mike Gunderloy says, "When I look at my resume, I’m amazed at the number of careers I’ve survived." To which I can only reply, "What doesn't destroy me makes me really tired."
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
David Crow has details. On an unrelated note, I'm looking for $75,000 to fund three junior programmers for six months starting in January to do Really Cool Things. If you'd like to know more, I'm easy to reach.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
...that just doesn't make sense!
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Speaking of where the times goes, these are my current projects:
Overseeing MSc students' research.
Samira Abdi: using IR to cluster events in project histories.
Jeremy Handcock: visual awareness tools for developers.
Carolyn MacLeod: patterns of mistakes in novices' use of concurrency analysis tools.
Overseeing a proposal for a Professional Master's degree in Computer Science.
Overseeing ...
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