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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 ...

Who Did They Invade Again?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Heather Williams has posted wordles of Obama's and McCain's speeches.  Look for "Israel" in both.  Now try to find "Iraq".  Er, what?

Midsummer Resolution

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

I've resolved to say "no" to at least one good idea each week. It's going to be hard---the world is full of fun things that need to be done, and I'd like to do 'em all---but I won't have any right to whine about there not being enough hours in ...

This Is What I’d Like To Be Doing…

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

...instead of paperwork: Jon Udell's post about turning internet feeds into TV feeds sparked half a dozen ideas in the first few paragraphs. As did this TinEye widget from Idee. *sigh*

I Don’t Know If I’d Call It “Incredible”…

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

...but this talk on Eucalyptus by Rich Wolski is pretty damn good...