Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Fuji Xerox has built a photocopier that can scan a piece of Japanese text, translate it into Chinese, Korean, or English, then insert the translation in the original layout. (The actual translation is done over the network on a dedicated translation server.) Adam Goucher's first reaction was, "Substitute code for ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Toronto's Google's own Michelle Levesque is featured in today's entry in O'Reilly's "Women in Technology" series. She tells us she got into technology because she saw someone vanish; I've heard less plausible reasons ;-).
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Diomidis Spinellis (author of two books on my recommended reading list) has just posted a reading list of his own. There's quite a bit of overlap, and a few surprises --- worth looking at.
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
The best part of my day is the time I get to spend with my daughter. The best part of my job is the people I work with. For example, David Wolever just found a possible explanation for the "jitter bug" in Firefox that I described yesterday. Turns out the ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Tiziano Zito is teaching Software Carpentry in Berlin. I admit I'm biased, but I think that's pretty cool ;-) Traffic on the site is holding steady as well --- wish I had time to go back and update the notes...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
DrProject 2.0 has been in use for almost a month now, and we've tripped over some ugly bugs. The worst one isn't our fault: we've discovered that Firefox sometimes sends two identical HTTP requests to the server when a link or button is clicked once, so that two identical transactions ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Via Michelle Levesque, news that One Laptop Per Child will be launching a "give one, get one" program in November: give one to a needy child, and you can buy one for yourself as well.
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
DemoCamp 15 will be held in Hart House, on the U of T campus, from 4-7 pm on Monday, October 29. Signup is open at democamp.eventbrite.com; you have to tick off the wee boxes on the signup form giving them permission to email you for registration to go through. Space ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Part way through Tracy Kidder's classic look at the computing industry, The Soul of a New Machine, one of the hardware team burns out and quits. After months of worrying about clock ticks and microseconds, his intent is to think about nothing shorter than a season. When I ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
As mentioned earlier, Prof. Randy Pausch of CMU has terminal pancreatic cancer. He gave his last lecture on Tuesday; video is on the web.
When I die, I shall breathe back the breath that made me live. I shall give back to the world all that I didn't do. All ...
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