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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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January 2005 - Posts
A* Articles
Monday, January 31, 2005 11:44 PM
Stefan Rusek has collected his A* articles together in one place. A* is used for finding out the travel distances between locations that are not connected in a line. You will want to look at these if you are serious about the Visual Gaming event. Or really
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Flying over the City
Monday, January 31, 2005 6:39 PM
I flew to Washington DC today. I had to change planes at LaGuardia Airport which is one of three airports that serves New York City. I grew up in Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs that make up New York City, so flying into LaGuardia in the borough of
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Home Server?
Monday, January 31, 2005 2:36 AM
What do you think? I think I need a server like this at my house. I dond't know if Microsoft will do it but I think the right set of hardware and software could make my life a lot easier. I have three laptops (soon to be four once I buy my wife a new
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Team Building
Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:02 PM
My group, US Academic Developer Evangelists, is spread all over the US. We don’t get together in once place all that often. This makes building working relationships a bit harder than it would probably be if we were all together often. We’ve also recently
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Interesting links
Friday, January 28, 2005 7:39 PM
Martin continues to post interestng sample code and suggestions around web services. This is an area Martin knows a lot about."Verna Felton already has a job at Microsoft, but the position she really wants is that of protege to Donald Trump. "Allister
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Academic Airlift
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:53 PM
I made it to Seattle last night. Got into the hotel just after midnight local time. Of course my body thought it was 3 AM. On the other hand I was wired and really had a hard time gettting to sleep. But I made up for it by getting up early. :-) Sometime
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Some pictures
Monday, January 24, 2005 3:37 PM
SO this may be interesting to those of you who don't see a lot of snow. Here is a picture of my meditation garden from this past summer.Here is the same section after a small snow fall.And here is is today after a real snow storm.And a close up of the
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Not looking good
Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:26 PM
Well my flight has been canceled because of the snow. We've had over a foot of snow overnight at my house. It looks like it is going to snow all day. I'm on hold with travel services now. Obviously they are a bit overworked right now as much of the country
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Travelling Sick
Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:58 AM
I woke up early this morning. I woke up because I was sick. Headache, stiff neck, and other things you don't want to hear about. Had it been regular work day the answer would be easy. Call in sick and try to sleep it off. But alas this was not a regular
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On the road
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:26 AM
I take off for Florida tomorrow. I'll be home on Saturday for almost 24 hours before I head west to Seattle. (Anyone else here going to be at the Academic Airlift?) I'llcome home from that and be home about 36 hours before heading to the Washington DC
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Geek Humor Redux
Monday, January 17, 2005 4:57 PM
I found this link on how to convert Windows to Linux and become more L33t. Obviously over the top a bit but its cute. And if Microsoft. fans can enjoy the anti-Microsoft jokes (and as far as I know they generally can) then Linux people should enjoy this
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Vacation Booked
Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:11 PM
We finished making most of the bookings for our winter snowboarding vacation. Every year my son and I go on a week long snowboarding trip during his school vacation. He is a teacher and generally gets the last week in February or first week in March off.
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Choice and Choosing
Friday, January 14, 2005 11:22 AM
My good friend Brian Scarbeau is a high school teacher in Florida. Well, he's more than that of course. He has also taught groups of teachers around the US and Canada. He knows his stuff. He's also good at making sure his students are exposed to various
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School Issued Laptops
Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:04 PM
Daryll McDade has some questions about school issued laptops. Please check out his blog, the article he links to and give him some feedback. Thanks!Looks like Daryll is starting to enjoy blogging. Read his full blog as he has a couple of interesting entries
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Problems?
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:52 PM
Some people have the most interesting problems. Jan-Kristian has to decide if he wants a free pocket PC or a free smart phone. Sounds like he's in good shape for the Imagine Cup as well. How are you doing with the Imagine Cup 2005? Speakiing of which
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iLab
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:09 AM
Every once in a while I get into a little funk about the state of education. And then, it never fails, I get the chance to see something exciting. Today it was a visit with the people of iCampus at MIT. They've got some really great things in progress.
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Are cats pets?
Friday, January 07, 2005 8:11 PM
The QOTD made me think of this. We have a cat. Is it a pet or are we the pets? I've heard it said that dogs and friends and cats have servants. It seems to me that the cat trains us more than the other way around.The cat is not "mine" by any stretch of
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Tidbits
Friday, January 07, 2005 11:40 AM
The new beta anti-spyware program from Microsoft is now available. Microsoft bought the company that made it. I've been running it for a week or so an really like it compared to other anti-spyware I have used.Conan O'Brian hosts the Consumer Electronics
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Inspiring Teachers
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:39 PM
I found this first pointer on MSDN Student Flash where Eric askes if there is a technology teacher you know who attracts the same sort of audience. NPR Story on Law professor Morton HorwitzThere's at least one on every campus: a class so popular, a professor
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