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Olympic Effort
Team USA (Kindergardeners) Skiing Down the Hill to Open the Day I’m in a fun period of my life. We just had a great show for a product I’ve been working on for a client. In about a week, we’re going...
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Weeding Dandelions and Other Silly Ambitions
photo credit: aivas14 My wife and I picked dandelions from our lawn today. Millions of them. OK, not that many, but a lot. My lawn wasn’t quite as bad as this picture, but there were parts that...
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Bridge Trolls
photo credit: National Library of Norway I’ve been reading Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion. It’s a dialog between the Dali Lama and Paul Ekman,...
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Women in Technology
I have two brilliant sisters. One of them was on a programming team in high school. She was the only girl on the team. They won their state competition. She doesn’t want to write software for a...
View Article5-Hour Energy and Credibility
I have been bugged by the TV commercials 5-Hour Energy has been running during the Olympics. I was first irked by how many factors they threw into a 30-second commercial. I was then irked by how much...
View ArticleProp 8
The Supreme Court ruled today on Hollingsworth v. Perry: After the two same-sex couples filed their challenge to Proposition 8 in federal court in California, the California government officials who...
View ArticleScience Fair
My children have been getting ready for science fair again this year. My daughter studied plastic last year. She’s nine, but she can recite how plastics are made, the different types of plastics,...
View ArticleAmazon, a Growing Target
I listened to an NPR story last week about how Amazon patents trivial and obvious features on their site to force people to have a poor experience on other sites. Things like the One-Click Checkout...
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On Being Nice
Jim Weirich at the Scottish Ruby Conference in 2010 We lost a star in the Ruby community last night, Jim Weirich. Everything I want to say sounds tinny and cheap. I wasn’t a close friend, but I was...
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