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A blog about life, Microsoft, random technology and general academic stuff.
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February 2005 - Posts
Vacation Starts Today
Monday, February 28, 2005 3:39 AM
I had a really nice blog entry all written and the airport wi-fi did something and I lost it. Frustrating. This one is being written in Word first. (Happened again – glad I did it in Word.)
I don’t usually buy airport wi-fi because when I fly I am usually
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Mobile Computing
Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:08 PM
I am listening to a talk by a high school teacher right now. (Wireless in the conference room. :-) ) She has been having her students write programs for Pocket PCs for the last couple of years. The projects they have done are quite amazing. They created
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SIGCSE
Friday, February 25, 2005 3:57 AM
I am in St Louis for the 2005 SIGCSE conference. That is the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education. This is a great conference. There are a bunch of wonderful people here. People who really care about teaching computer science. Every
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Better day today
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:57 AM
Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. My mother in law had her operation this morning. It turned out very well and she is doing fine. She'll spend a couple of days in the hospital and then they will send her to a rehab center for a week
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Rough Day
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:07 AM
My mother in law, who lives with us, fell and broke her hip yesterday. In a little while my wife and I go to the hospital to be there when she is operated on. It is a high risk operation because of her age (79) and general health (not good). Say a prayer
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Packing
Sunday, February 20, 2005 5:35 PM
I have been packing today. Now usually packing in no big deal. I have packing for business travel down. I actually have a set of clothing that I keep clean and ready to go. Some of it is always in a suitcase. But this trip is different. First I am going
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THe Cave
Sunday, February 20, 2005 2:36 PM
Thursday I visited Brown University. One of the more impressive projects I have been able to see there is called the Cave. The Cave is a virtual reality room. The principal mover behind the Cave, Professor Andy van Dam, calls it a 21st century Holodeck.
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Bill Gates Interview
Saturday, February 19, 2005 6:26 PM
An interesting interview with Bill Gates. One of the things he is interested in is helping American high schools. High schools are the level where a lot of American students lose ground compared to students in other countries. I should write him an email
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Changing the world
Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:58 PM
Yesterday I was able to visit with researchers at the Northeast Instream Habitat Program at the University of Massachusitts. They are creating new models and simulations of rivers and streams. They are able to model the effects of water flow, dams, and
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Linux
Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:35 AM
Slastdot interviews Martin Taylor who works for Microsoft. I haven't read it all yet but it looks interesting so far. They are talking about Linux. I can imagine the comments section at Slastdot now.Edit: Had a chance to read it all tonight. Martin does
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Grand Challenge
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:57 AM
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a competition to create a robotic vehicle to autonomously travel through a desert course. Today DARPA announced that 195 teams have entered this year’s event. Teams come from 37 states and three foreign countries.
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Hope for the single
Monday, February 14, 2005 4:15 PM
So today is Valentine's day. This can be hard on people who are not in serious relationships. So far today I have seen a couple of people blog about the down side of Valentine's day including one picture a Cupid with an arrow in his back. But I have to
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Mixing food and work
Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:06 AM
I visited Greater Lowell Technical high school this afternoon. I had a great visit and made a presentation to about 110 students. It was a good time and we had time for questions at the end. I opened it up to any questions and got some of the usual. Have
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A walk in the snow
Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:32 PM
I finally got into the woods today. My wife, a neighbor and I got out our snowshoes at took a hike through the snow this afternoon. I was wonderful. The woods were quiet and still. The snow covers evertyhing. The shadows of the trees are sharp and clear
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Home at last
Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:38 PM
After being on the road for the last two and a half weeks I don't have any overnigth trips planned for at least two weeks. It feels good.Yesterday my meetings finished early and I got the to airport hours in advance of my flight. When I checked in the
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What a day
Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:23 AM
The good news is that I was able to get early flights home. The bad news is that it is still late and I am not up to telling you the whole story tonight. The other bad news is that I dropped my laptop at the airport. Mostly it works but the DVD seems
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It's a year
Friday, February 04, 2005 3:36 AM
Today my Spoke blog is a year old. 15,560 reads or about 42.5 reads a day on average. Also currently at 211 subscribers. Lots of those subscribers appear not to come by that regularly though. Oh well. Thank you all for stopping by, for commenting,
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I'm Hot
Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:33 AM
Where I live it is cold in the winter. Very cold. But I really don't mind that much. It is interesting that as I get older the cold is not easier or harder to take. You can always put on a jacket or something if you are cold. But for some reason it is
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