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Digging Out of Self-Made Holes
Right before the end of last year, I made a number of “blue sky” goals for 2008. Unfortunately I fell into a number of self-made holes from last year, that basically prevented me from moving forward. To make things worse, I realized no single “thing” would resolve or complete even part of one of those…
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Review of 2007, the Promise(s) of 2008
The year 2007 has been quite a dynamic year for me. Instead of writing a long article about each thing… cause that might take me an year to write and edit, I will just present a list of lists of things that happened. Academics Completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.…
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Restructuring justCheckers
As I started resuscitating the long dormant justCheckers project, I began wondering why did the development occurred at a comatose pace. Much of the problem I place on my own inexperience and my university workload. I also paid more attention to possible future problems than managing the team. Yesterday, one my of good friends and…
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Subverting the Eclipse of Sanity
Ubuntu Linux makes many things easier. Today, I hit a notable exception: running Eclipse so that I update and do other “insane” things with it. After a lot of hassle, I downloaded a Linux version of eclipse right off of eclipse.org. Some updates, installed the subclipse plug-in and I am ready to hack away at…
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Busily Getting to Business
What a busy day. Today’s line of exploits include: Installing a wiki. A moderated wiki will be the new justCheckers site. Importing articles from a website and wiki into a… wiki. Counselling about my career choices… and that I need to cold call. Brr… A quick update with a friend. Me time with a coffee…
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A Note to Any Future Employers
So you typed my name into Google, and found this site popping up as the second result. Congratulations! You just found my blog. You are probably surprised, that you found it so easily. I was surprised when I Googled my name today too. I welcome you. I just want to point out a few things,…
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Looking Forward, Looking Backward
One of the hardest thing to admit is one own errors. Today I finally confronted two of them. A while ago I opened up two different FOSS projects on SourceForge. I soon realized that I did not have the time to work on them and school. So today, I finally found the courage to ask…
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Travel-o-mania
Okay today was catch up day. Too tired to write much. Too much planning of the trip, and getting the front yard done. More stuff tomorrow, promise. Maybe. At least I finished editing the Style Guide for the justCheckers project. Also played a bit of World of Padman and S.T.A.L.K.E.R., both are quite fun and…
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When Things Fall (Part 2)
I wanted to write and post the second part yesterday. But having scraped my fingers whilst gardening, any finger intensive activity like blogging or gaming had to be postponed. Now my fingers seem better, so I will continue where I left off… (Monday) …having arrived late into the night from Niagara Falls, I was not…
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The Insanity Returns
If one looks for trouble, one usually finds it. I guess the same applies to work. After a few months, huddled in the sanctity of university studies, I emerge to realize how much work needs my attention. A computer glitch almost killed my graduation. Weeds sprouted on the front yard, where the planned stone and…