2013: Looking back and looking forward — Have you ever felt unsure about whether you’re moving forward or where the time went? A friend called me up [...]
2012: Weekly review: Week ending December 30, 2011 — Lots of progress on Quantified Awesome thanks to last week’s long weekend. Looking forward to building more this long weekend. [...]
2010: On the practice of a weekly review — A weekly review is an excellent idea. Here are some of the reasons why I do it:
Track and celebrate accomplishments. [...]
2009: Homebody —
Fun with friends is fine and dandy; chefs and waiters, pretty handy;
But it’s clear in every case that home remains [...]
2009: Happiness and cats — Tania Samsonova sent me a link to this geeky-and-oh-so-true comic: Schrödinger’s (emotional) Miscalculation – Part 3.
Tania, you rock! =D
2007: Big, hairy, audacious goal — 2My Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal for the next eight months is to help
huge companies imagine how they can help people [...]
2007: My books are balanced — I have to confess a certain delight in knowing that my books are
balanced and that I have a full year [...]
2007: Making things happen — My dad was telling all sorts of crazy stories at the breakfast table
earlier. It’s a good thing my mom reminded [...]
2007: Yay me! — I gave up watching New Year fireworks for the thrill of actually
keeping a not-quite-New-Year goal of waking up before 7:30 [...]
2004: On losing my data —
Insightful post, then
X-Windows died horribly.
Agh! No auto-save!
Yes, yes, I know, it doesn’t have season words or the wordplay I so [...]
2004: Paper: Problem-based learning for foundation computer science courses — http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~judy/PBL/tr_cse_pbl99.pdf
The foundation courses in computer science pose
particular challenges for teacher and learner alike. This paper
describes some of these challenges [...]
2004: Considering part-time — Blast. My really long blog post disappeared after stuff crashed.
In brief:
I’m thinking of teaching part-time instead of full-time. I want [...]
2004: Reaction to OnLove — I was recently considering the idea of having a
“girlfriend” purely for emotional reasons. i prefer to name it
“emotional buffer”. [...]
2004: On days — Only a few hours ago did fireworks light up the sky to celebrate the
beginning of a new year, yet now [...]
2004: SIGCSE: The first stop for computer science education research — http://www.acm.org/sigcse/
SIGCSE is the special interest group for computer science education in
the Association for Computing Machinery. It
regularly organizes conferences and the [...]
2004: Resolutions for 2004 —
Speak slower and lower.
Check requirements within 3 days.
Log all of my expenses in plain text in Emacs so that I [...]
2004: Old computer — I’m having problems with the ADMTek Centaur-P. It’s a tulip card, but
for some reason it does not want to be [...]
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