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Hello and Welcome to anyone visiting from the the TCRC conference!! In response to the anonymous email I received... It seems that The Potato Powered Web Server I mentioned during my talk was inspired by a hoax... so its authenticity is called into question. NEVERTHELESS: I'm still a
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Once again, Erick comes through. He sent me another version of the Michael Jackson game. This one is better, in my opinion... particularly the gag with the spiders.
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0000 - 0600 Nap: Vaguely remember turning off alarm and egg timer... grrr... 0600 (SSS - 2) Dinked around on the Net 1200 Food: I grilled a cheeseburger and had some chips & salsa with a coke 1330 Nap: 30 minutes of napping 1830 Nap: (SSS-2) laid down for a
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Well, I guess last night counts as a "reboot." I got a full 6.5 hours of sleep last night. 2330 - 0700 Nap. 0930 (SSS 1) Feeling really good, naturally. 1400 - Nap: (SSS-3) Great nap. 24 minutes of snoozing. 1920 - Nap: Laid down for a
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While it hurts to think going to sleep at midnight and getting up at 0530 is "oversleeping," I overslept. This time, though, I learned a valuable lesson about my egg timer: although it does beep for a little while, it eventually turns off. Seems I slept through it
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...in a long, LONG series of why Austin is a great place to be (quantum leaps better than Houston, for example)
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I'm looking forward to this weekend. I have a few non-programming/techie (but sufficiently geeky) projects to work on. First, I have to furiously prepare for the panel session on Tue. I think I have enough substantial raw material to talk about, but I need to organize, filter,
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Ok, today we're turning up the crank... I suddenly have some projects which have deadlines coming up very quickly that I'll need the extra crunch time to complete, so I might be going full Uberman through the weekend. (however, I'll reserve the right to
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Good sleep last night: 0000 - Nap: 4 hours (alarm rang at 400, but I got up, turned it off, and lay in bed, awake and thinking for the next hour) upon awaking I probably was at SSS-2 0500-0830 - read a bit and did some research on GPL... stayed
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Austin is ranked 3rd "Knowledge Center" in the world. Link.
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Steve and I discussed our SpeakerMatch application. We've decided that it would make for an interesting experiment to Open Source the project so that we can involve students and teachers more in its development. From my perspective, i want to learn a lot more, first hand, about running
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I went to a meeting at 6:00 about the RRISD IT Academy (I'm on their business advisory team). Afterwards, I spoke at length with some fascinating geeks. The educators talked at length about how students taking the innovative Intro to IT Course (which surveys everything from how