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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Book Review: The Cuckoo's Egg
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The Cuckoo's Egg Tracking: a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll In 1986, Cliff Stoll's boss asked him to i...
Friday, November 5, 2010
Book Review: Fermat's Enigma
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Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh In 1637, Pierre de Fermat , a renown amateur-but-genius mathematician, was reading Diophantus 's A...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saving weblinks to org-mode from Safari
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Each day, I come across numerous web articles, blog posts, newsgroup posts, etc, that appear interesting. Often, I discover them while worki...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Book Review: On Writing Well
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On Writing Well by William Zinsser Clarity. Simplicity. Brevity. Humanity. Those are the four attributes of good writing that Zinsser pro...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Brain fitness videos
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The "Thoughts about thinking" post motivated me to improve my brain fitness. To that end, I found the following three talks very ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Doing less than your best
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I once learned a valuable lesson - never do well a task that you don't want to do again. The situation started out innocently. A task ...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Thoughts about thinking
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Challenging work assignments, family matters, and home maintenance projects have kept me very busy lately. Hence, the significant drop-off i...
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