2010: Systematically eliminating choices — I confess: I sometimes feel overwhelmed when researching choices. I find it really helpful to write options down and [...]
2009: Riding on my bicycle — - Friday -
I rode the subway instead of bicycling to work. It took me the same amount of time, which [...]
2007: Rediscovered words — I haven’t read my own ShortStories in a while. I hardly recognize
myself. I don’t remember writing some things or what [...]
2006: The dawn of a new Moleskine — I’ve reached the last page on my well-loved Moleskine notebook and
must retire it to my archives. This is the little [...]
2006: Momblogging — My mom would rather that I don’t directly link to her blog, which is a
pity because you won’t get to [...]
2006: VPN! — Hooray! Finally! Network access from my laptop Just Works!
This means I can work on my research from my regular computer [...]
2006: Backlog: Software Freedom Day — Goodness, I have *such* a blogging backlog. Here’s a story about
Software Freedom Day last 2006.09.16 that helped me learn a [...]
2006: My mom’s blogging! — And she writes better than I do… <laugh> She’s totally
awesome! I’m looking forward to reading more stories from her. I
should [...]
2006: Step out of your comfort zone — Didith Rodrigo: Disturb Us, O Lord
However you want to refer to whatever makes you try to be greater than yourself, [...]
2005: Lentil lunacy — I will never underestimate lentils again. They give me a warm and
fuzzy feeling of being quite full. A bit too [...]
2005: Lapping up lentils — The past few days have been repeats of previous CookOrDie successes,
so I figured today I’d cook something in the true [...]
2005: What do I want to do with my life? —
What it is that you do? What is your core expertise?
That made me stop and think.
Effective mission statements aren’t born [...]
2004: A LAZY AFTERNOON — The carabao grunted to a halt unceremoniously. I felt Maria wake up.
Steadying her, I jumped off the broad back and [...]
2003: ff and C/C++ programming — Emacs — These functions look interesting for C and C++ programming:
- ff-find-the-other-file
- ff-find-related-file
2003: Okay, I think it’s time for me to rest. — I’m typing slowly _and_ I’m thinking slowly, which is never a good combination. =)
I do _not_ want to add bugs [...]
2003: “Revenge of the Coders” — There is a movement among programmers away from sluggish,
feature-heavy IDEs and toward flexible code editors as
enterprises focus intensely on productivity. [...]
2003: ARGHHH. — There are few things quite as annoying as realizing that you are
reinventing the wheel halfway through the process.
Argh argh argh [...]
2003: Class day yesterday — Incidentally, I had an excellent class day yesterday – group work.
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