Check out my guest post on the Code Factory blog the Road Less Travelled. The Awesome Foundation is a group of 10 people who every month award a grant of $1000 to someone to enable something AWESOME. Examples include: a giant laser, a cotton candy cannon, and a “happiness hat” (my personal favourite). . Ultimately, ...
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Making Ottawa More Awesome
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Week in Brief
Last week: Finish assignment Workshop – content Workshop – decide what frameworks need coding. Work-out 5 times Read 9 papers - read 5 Send off yet another form for internship Sort out international tuition waiver – not happening Deal with insurance! Finish reading XP: Explained Also: Did taxes Sorted out vehicle registration Weekend: Read 4 papers Took pole dancing class Had dinner with friend Chilled out and watched My ...
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29
Being a bit of a nomad was fine at the time, it's now I have forms to fill in listing where I've lived that it's a problem. # I think my subconscious is having a nervous breakdown. # The guy behind me in class is sleeping. I can't stop staring at him, wondering if he'll start snoring! ...
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Google vs. Censored Internet
Of course, I've been following the debate about Google leaving China and the fallout. There's a good summary in the NYT, as well as a piece on Sergey Brin and his childhood in the Soviet Union. I really love the evil meter. I was in China in 2007 for about 3 months. I'd braced myself for ...
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day
I really want to blog about a woman in tech today. I think Ada Lovelace day is awesome, and was charmed when someone wished me a happy Ada Lovelace day this morning. However, I have a dearth of role models. Does passively stalking someone on Twitter count as knowing someone? Even with the odd, brief, interaction? ...
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What Makes a Programmer Great?
This is a post I co-wrote with Douglas Gresham. Douglas is a software engineer at Google, who blogs at www.douglasgresham.co.uk (less often than he should, go bug him for updates). I'm a graduate student, though I firmly believe that great programmers are not the result of university courses in programming. But university courses take us ...
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Awesome Foundation Ottawa
I've heard that you should be the change you want to see in the world. Well, I would like the world to be more AWESOME. It's time to take action on that, and I have a plan. There's this thing that was started up in Boston last year called the Awesome Foundation. Basically, it's a group of 10 ...
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Week in Brief
Bit behind this week, which did not exactly go to plan... I meant to: Ski instructing (last time I think – the snow is ending). Finish assignment - made progress but got stuck sue to issues with the setup and general confusion with Schrodinger's Table. Workshop – content. Workshop – decide what frameworks need coding. Read 5 papers. See physio about ...
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22
I'm a little late to Monday... Morning all! # Wooo we have funding for a WISE conference and I've been very kindly told I can take the day off from internship! Yay! # Why Nerds are unpopular, or why high-school is unnatural and like prison - http://bit.ly/bR0DvJ /via @tgrevatt @ToughLoveforX @dmlComp # Great insight into privacy and the ...
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Being Nice
I've been thinking about being likable lately, because things seem to keep coming back to kick me in the head. Am I doing it wrong? Trying too hard? Not trying the right things? Not trying the right people? Over thinking all this? And then, well, I just offered to do a favor for a friend, E. ...
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