Debugging people

Posted on October 31st, 2004 by Sacha Chua

Of course I would. If I knew the right way to say it. ::sighs::

I'm a computer geek. <grin> I'm used to getting weird output
from programs and figuring out what's really going on. Not only that,
I teach, so I _have_ to know how to get from a vague description to an
aha! moment.

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