Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Customer (Non)Support with Yahoo!

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. ...

“The Computer Was Threatening to Explode”

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:

Link Soup

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 ...

Mail Traffic Over Time

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Twenty lines of Python, an Excel chart, and here we are:

It Wasn’t *Meant* To Be Funny, But…

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, ...

Staying On Top vs. Getting to the Bottom

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Nice post by John Cook.

Paraphrase

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."

Y Combinator Now Accepting Applications for Its Next Season

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.

But Dad…

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

...that just doesn't make sense!

Current Projects

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 ...