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Science loses its Mr. Wizard
Don Herbert, best known for his role as Mr. Wizard, has died at the age of 89. With his passing, science has lost one of its most compelling and approachable spokesmen. read more | digg story
First Hack. Age 7.99999
My daughter just told me that sometimes in her Animal Crossing game on the DS, the stores are only open at certain times. But if she’s not playing at the right time, she goes and changes the time, so the stores are open and she gets stuff she needs, and then she changes back to …
Almost back to work
Next week I go back to work, and I’ve gotten rid of a ton of stuff that I could just throw away, and made it through most of my backlog of “non-critical” snail mail. Things aren’t perfectly the way I want them yet, but getting closer. Now I’m trying to work out a plan for …
Making it a habit.
I’ve spent at least an hour (usually more) each day this week going through a chapter in the PickAxe 2nd Ed. I’m up to the RegEx section in Chapter 5 right now. I’ve been through a bunch of other tutorials, and this time, it really feels like it’s sinking in and I’m getting more of …
3 weeks outta 4 ain’t bad
It’s been 4 weeks since the start of my exercising “regularly,” and even through I pretty much missed week three because of a business trip, I’ve gotten back on track and feel pretty good about things. Now if I could only figure out how to write code while I exercise… See more progress on: exercise …
Upgrade! Yay?
I just upgraded SitM to WordPress 2.2, which— aside from the neato AJAX-y sidebar widgets thingamabob, I’m not quite sure what else is new. I suppose I could read the release notes, but that feels like cheating.