Day 2 of the great eastward migration was much easier. I got a bit later start, after my crazy long Friday. I managed to continue through Nebraska, all the way through Iowa and got about halfway through to Joliet, Illinois. (And no, I did not have to stay in the prison!) All told about 12… Continue Reading Driving East – Day 2
Well, I managed to survive Day 1 and ended the night in Kearney, Nebraska. I spent about 15 hours traveling on Friday, with about 12.5 hours of actual driving. (I had planned on leaving Thursday, but had a false-start. I decided to do a “do-over” and leave on Friday morning instead.) I made it out… Continue Reading Driving East – Day 1
Well, I am about to “go East, young man.” The house is just about packed up. A professional packing crew of three women spent about 5 hours today (Tuesday) packing my kitchen, artwork, garage and random assorted “things”. It was a little pricey to have them do it, but it was a pretty big weight… Continue Reading The Great Move Begins!
I first heard about Delicious Library at MacWorld San Francisco in 2005. At the time I was impressed enough by the software to buy a copy and catalog my books, VHS and DVD movies and CDs. Sometime during one of my laptop upgrades or data transfers, I managed to delete (or not transfer) the data… Continue Reading Delicious Library
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Every morning, and many times throughout the day, I read a number of general news and Mac/technology-specific websites. This morning I ran across a link to this Time Magazine Article on 25 Gotta Have Travel Gadgets via CNN. (I’ll have to cover what I think of CNN’s “sensationalistic” trends of the last couple years in… Continue Reading Gotta Have Travel Gadgets
Well, I’ve got some big news. Today I accepted a position in the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) at MIT. My initial appointment is for 6 months to work on dissemination of the iCampus Project, in particular the Spoken Lecture project. iCampus was a research collaboration between Microsoft Research and MIT whose goal… Continue Reading Change Can Happen…or…The Great Adventure Continues
…these history-worth events happened? These are some of the events where I have a specific memory that I thought I’d share. (I write this while watching Barack Obama’s inauguration.) Space Shuttle Challenger (April 4, 1986): I remember being herded into a classroom at Pinecrest Van Nuys watching the news coverage of the explosion. Fast forward… Continue Reading Where was I when…
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I was reading an interview in Computerworld with Christophe Louvion (see page 2), the developer of Scrum programming, where he talked about “agile” programming and teams. A couple points he made really struck a chord with me. Programming Practices Has agile become so mainstream that it’s become a trendy, meaningless buzzword? The term agile is… Continue Reading Observations on Programming