Crossposted from Scimatic Jamie and I had the pleasure of going out for dim sum with Greg Wilson the other day. You might remember Greg from such classics as Science 2.0 and Stack Overflow Dev Days Toronto. He was talking to us about his Software Carpentry course that he’s been running out of the University [...]
Two nights ago I attended Damian Conway’s excellent talk: “Temporally Quaquaversal Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces … Made Easy!” My notes said that he left out the “Virtual Nanomachine” part of the talk title, although he did talk about virtual nanomachines. The talk was a preview of the keynote session that Damian [...]
Now that I’ve left my job at OpenMake, I needed new business cards. But really they are more like “contact” cards as I don’t yet have a business. My wife (and the rest of the blogosphere) is a big fan of Moo Cards. And now they’ve started printing business cards in the standard sizes. So [...]
They say you have to back up. Back up your data or you’ll regret it. Well, now I’m pretty aware of why you need the backups, because of two recent events. In the first, the backups worked; the second, they didn’t. In the first case, (the one that worked), my wife and I had to [...]