Monthly Archives: April 2007

The reason why they call it ‘The Birds and the Bees’

By david.humphrey | Published: April 22, 2007
The weather this weekend was incredible.  Not surprisingly our girls wanted nothing to do with the great indoors.  We spent both days exploring outside.  Today after church was particularly incredible.  While we were out I saw so many mating pairs of birds, I couldn’t believe it. First, I showed the girls a Killdeer.  We talked about [...]
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Two ideas that need more reflection

By david.humphrey | Published: April 13, 2007
I attended a number of talks this week, and in two cases heard statements being made that were never given critical reflection.  I thought I’d lay them before you so you could fix that. First, on the topic of reading: There are only two reasons to read: pleasure and  for information gathering. I nearly fell out of my [...]
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Back to “civilization”

By david.humphrey | Published: April 12, 2007
After spending the day in the city yesterday, I was glad to get back home to the country. Tonight at dinner we were watching a group of Buffleheads on our lake outside the window, when I noticed one that was 4 times the size of the rest. “It’s a Loon!” And so [...]
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A full day at U of T

By david.humphrey | Published: April 11, 2007
I was invited to come to the University of Toronto and participate in a panel at KMDI called CODE: Building the New Agora. The event was looking at various virtual communities, presence vs. on-line, how open source informs new social networks (e.g., BarCamp/DemoCamp). I spoke on the Mozilla community, globally distributed development [...]
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Alright, I’ll change it!

By david.humphrey | Published: April 9, 2007
I’m taking heat for the theme/font I was using here (to be honest, I forgot what it looked like, since the page I write to looks nothing like the site).  So I’m reverting to the standard WordPress look-and-feel until I can get proper permissions on shaver’s box to upload/edit themes.  Mike, whenever you have a [...]
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Open Source, pre-1945

By david.humphrey | Published: April 8, 2007
Yesterday we packed-up the family and drove to my parents’ house for an Easter dinner. It was great to see the entire crew, watch my parents try to deal with so many grandchildren all at once, and to thoroughly trounce not one but two of my brothers at crokinole–overheard during the beating: “I know [...]
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Declarative Canvas Drawing

By david.humphrey | Published: April 7, 2007
Two of my students, Mark Paruzel (RealMarkP) and Eric Yi Shen, are just finishing-up their project work, which is explore building a declarative markup for drawing to canvas. The idea is to embed drawing primitives (e.g., line, circle, rotate, etc.) within canvas, allowing for simplified expressions of complex drawing operations. The end results [...]
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Reflections on Boston

By david.humphrey | Published: April 4, 2007
I spent the day today following-up on things that came out of the  Boston Dev Day, in particular working-up a grant proposal for a research project based on Vlad’s canvas3d stuff (have you seen this? man!).  That, and reading mfinkle’s wrap-up, made me pause to reflect on what a great day Friday was.  I even [...]
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