Engineering an Interesting Life
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The Future
The other day, I blogged about how technology education had to better prepare students for the future, but I didn’t come up with many ideas for how. Ultimately, it’s hard to prepare for the unknown and I evade predictions about the details. It’s really hard to educate for the future, if you don’t know what…
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Week in Brief
For this week: Exchange drivers license for Ontario one. Sort out insurance. Collect car. Finish incorporating papers into thesis – about 1/3 of the way through with this. Embed applets – made progress, demo applet embedded. Regular ones have small bug. Decide which course to take. Go kickboxing twice – sick, only made it once…
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A Diet of Live Frogs
Monday: Going to the DV and exchanging my license – surprisingly painless. Tuesday: Going outside. Wednesday: Laundry, paying bills. Thursday: Dealing with insurance people. Friday: Going to Carleton How Was It? Not as bad as I thought it would be, most things were less awful than anticipated (apart from going to Carleton). Even though I…
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Experimenting with Delegating
Sacha wrote a lovely post recently about delegating. It’s been sitting open on my computer since, because I need to delegate more if I want to do more – because I’m hitting capacity. I do want to do more, so I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what I can delegate and even…
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Do We Need Time Management Advice?
We’re having an event at WISE next week, we were hoping to have someone from SASS to come and give some advice on time management. But SASS is never open, and now we have something much better. But when I was panicking for a speaker, thinking about maybe asking another student to speak I started…
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Why Women are Better Programmers
From Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All “I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest.” Love it! And I totally want to learn stats now, too.
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Mini-Generation Gaps
When I gave the Holiday Science lecture, one of the things that I touched on briefly was how my childhood was unrecognizable compared to the childhood of children 10 years my junior. This article – The Children of Cyberspace – from the New York Times elaborates on that further. From the article: “Researchers are exploring…
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Eating Live Frogs
Reflecting on Sunday’s post on Effectiveness and Time Management, and my reluctance to eat live frogs in the morning, it’s occurred to me that: I don’t tend to have a “most important task”, because most of my tasks are fairly open ended. Each day I have something that I want to make some progress on,…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-11
Ooh Monday, I have big plans for you! Wish they didn't involve going outside though, looks rather chilly and snowy out there! # Hehe I made @isfalk feel sick all night after tumble turn boot camp. Serves him right for leaving me on the ground for @tgrevatt to rescue!! # Oh crap. This is Not…