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I'm very nervous about tomorrow. We are having a "Staff Retreat" out at McKinney Roughs (a state park). It's going to involve intervention-style "team-building" activities (you know, get- to-know-and-trust-you games, "trust falls," "crossing the lava pit," "key,
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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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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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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
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Busy, tiring day today... first test of stress followed by nap recovery - I have a classroom speaking engagement for 4 classes of 30 spread throughout the day. 2345-0000 Crawled into bed and watched a little tv 0030 - fell asleep and had a dream of narrowly missing being in
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I love Thanksgiving. It's probably my favorite holiday. Right now, I'm drooling over the smell of Mr. Tom roasting away in the oven... I particularly like to eat the skin. So crispy and golden... mmmmm... Let's not forget the true meaning of Thanksgiving, though:
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I was too early. I was host, so I put up my little sign, but Tim (the first to show) wasn't there until 15 minutes after... followed by Shawn (over whom I'm kicking myself for recognizing his face and name and not building the connection in
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I can sum up the Meetup in one line: People started using the version of Unix that they first started hacking to try to win debate points. From my perspective, this sort of meeting was a marketing nightmare. I think it's very important for the group to have
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My Grandma turned 100 years old. Today my family celebrated her birthday in San Elizario, Texas. A priest from the San Eli Mission came to celebrate mass at her home and my relatives and cousins and friends from the community sang and played mariachi instruments, made tremendous amounts of food
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I got a fax today from the “Domain Support Group” filled with legal mumbo-jumbo about losing my domain name. I happen to have an outstanding issue with Verisign (I registered davidnunez.com a while back before they installed their fancy new administration program, so I’m having a lot of
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On July 4, 1998, Mike Wakin and I went to a very special picnic in Luckenbach, Texas where we met an old friend in person. Shortly thereafter, I wrote an online short story/journal entry (pre-blog days, mind you) about that day and what we went through together. There have