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• 2011: Why we use more than math textbooks and general-purpose resources — For last Sunday’s study group, we focused on algebraic expressions. The kids were a little out of sorts at the [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending April 4, 2010 — What a wonderful week and long weekend! Plans for next week: Work [X] Give Remote Presentations That Rock presentation for soft [...]
• 2009: Weekly report: Week ending April 5, 2009 — From last week: Deploy new release of Transition2 Lessons learned Ride my bike! =) Work on organizing talks, ideas, and material some more [...]
• 2009: Nothing quite like Org for Emacs — I’ve been trying lots of different Web-based GTD task managers like Remember the Milk, Toodledo, and GTDAgenda. I’m slowly coming [...]
• 2008: TLE2008: Networking: A Workshop in Getting the Most from the TLE, Jim De Piante, part 1 of 2 — I attended Networking: a Workshop in Getting the Most from the TLE, by Jim De Piante. The session was about [...]
• 2008: TLE2008: Essential Problem-Solving Skills That Will Shorten A Project, Dick Orth — My day began with S011-LED: Essential Problem-Solving Skills That Will Shorten a Project, by Dick Orth. One of the key [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: March 31 to April 6 — Good morning! I’m writing this from the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida. I’m here for the IBM Technical Leadership Exchange, [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Beef medallion, baked potato — Pan-frying beef medallion isn’t quite the same as grilling it, but oh well – one does what one can. I’m a [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Grilled again — I was planning to meet Calum for dinner, but I figured it would be a good day to try out the [...]
• 2005: Title suggestions — From Jan Alonzo: I think the reason why I mentioned “Planning the Unplanned” is because we plan (and prioritize) the stuff we [...]
• 2005: Open source licenses — http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html has a good explanation of the differences between popular open source licenses. その少年たちはかわいい猫と一緒に２人きりで暮らしていた。 The two boys lived alone with a lovely [...]
• 2005: PIM love — I am completely in love with my latest indispensable personal information management tool: A 3×5 deck of plain (unruled) index cards. Seriously. A [...]
• 2004: Now up to 7522 in the ACM ranking — Got the Interpreter (10033) problem on the first try! =)
• 2004: Finally accepted. Up to #8038. — Grrrr, not reading specs well enough… E-Mail from Valladolid Online Judge
• 2004: Dropped to 8579 — I’m still getting wrong-answer on my solution for 10267. I hope this isn’t another Java/C thing. I’ll translate my program tomorrow, although [...]
• 2004: ACM status — I am currently a very lowly #8559. Will do another four problems tomorrow.