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On This Day...

• 2011: Deliberate practice, typing faster, and Emacs — I type at about 90-95 wpm. I wonder: Would it be worth getting even faster? How would I go about [...]
• 2010: Week ending September 12, 2010 — SCHEDULED: 2010-09-13 Mon 08:00 From last week’s plans Work [X] Classroom to Client: Create community and structure online resources [X] Connections Toolkit: [...]
• 2008: First impressions in an e-mail world — I really wish I could’ve spent more time in Washington–not only to spend a month or two in the Smithsonian [...]
• 2008: Emacs w3m: Open pages in external browsers — Sometimes w3m is not enough. To make it easier to open the current page in a browser such as Mozilla [...]
• 2006: What makes a good life? — Ian Garmaise introduced Lawrence Miller, who was a wonderful addition the conversation. Talk turned to wisdom. I asked him, “How do you [...]
• 2005: ACM training again — I saw a poster for the ACM programming tryouts. I’m really rusty, but it would be good for me to find [...]
• 2005: Presentation insights from science competitions — On community.lifehack.org: presentation tips from a science fair competitor. Makes me wish I’d gotten into the science fair circuit! I’ve given [...]
• 2003: Nifty Assignments — http://nifty.stanford.edu/ I should develop things like this, and maybe see about using some of these assignments in my class.
• 2003: Naive tools for studying compilation history — Full text available at http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1588/index.html First paragraph: We are interested in assessing the impact of pedagogic programming environments in the teaching of programming [...]
• 2003: CS education dissertations — At the University of Texas at Austin, Roger Louis Priebe earned a doctorate in Science Education in 1997 with a [...]
• 2003: Blogging as an educator — From http://www.cs-ed.org/blogs/mjadud/archives/000137.html#137: I haven’t ever blogged as an educator, I must admit. This is, I think, a failing in my blogging [...]
• 2003: CS education weblog — http://www.cs-ed.org/blogs/mjadud/ proposed an interesting question - how do you compile? I notice that students tend to write lots of (buggy) code and [...]
• 2003: mount –bind — Whoa, funky. mount —bind olddir newdir allows us to make contents available elsewhere.
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:27 2002 — http://www.imc.org/pdi
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:45 2002 — Research and Development – CompSAT Paolo Venegas We learn so that we may learn more in this committee. I believe that we should [...]
• 2002: tasks in a database, guids, whatever Fri Sep 13:37 2002 — If I store all tasks in a database, then I need to be able to quickly refer to it. Actually, [...]
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• 2002: Fri Sep 13:42 2002 — make remember use emacspeak. learn enough to become a major contributor ito Emacspeak if i store it in a database, then I [...]
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:59 2002 — now we’re talking about relationships
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:24 2002 — Maybe I should stroe the tasks in a MySQL database. MySQL allows us to do a simple relevance query. Hmmm. [...]
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:21 2002 — Not fully formed Existentialism: no “nature” but we have history. The moment we are born, we cannot say that that is [...]
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:58 2002 — decode-time is a built-in function. (decode-time &optional SPECIFIED-TIME)
• 2002: Fri Sep 13:48 2002 — get a wish list of hardware – charmit thinkgeek com minimum thin client, using the xscale chip automatic media transfer automatic networ [...]