Month: October 2012
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Which is so hard for people
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.Steve Jobs
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Positive energy
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.Confucius
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Say when it’s time to begin.
I have a friend who is always planning to start a writing project “as soon as she gets organized.” She has read nearly every book, attended every seminar, and bought all the tapes on the subject. She has closets full of organizers, drawers stuffed with folders, and several related computer programs. There’s only one problem. …
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Barack to the future
In the January 2009 issue of Harpers, an item appeared the readings section called Barack to the future. It was an excerpt of a letter from a conservative right wing group dated today claiming the the world would be a much worse place now than it was in the first month of the Obama administration.Read…
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On the election
We are the mice. Television is the maze. And I don’t think there is any cheese.Chris Wong, 2-Oct-2012
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IEEExtreme Programming Challenge
I was the initial proctor for the 2012 IEEExtreme Programming Challenge at the U of M this year. The field had expanded from a single team last year to four teams this year. At this rate, then they will need a bigger IEEE lab at the U next year.