Monthly Archives: May 2007

Wipe that smile off your face

By david.humphrey | Published: May 31, 2007
One of the things I find interesting about using IM, and specifically chatting with people who use pictures of themselves, is that you can so easily get confused about how they really feel.  For example, if I open GTalk right now, I have a whole bunch of smiling faces with “Available” beside their names.  The [...]
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An idea someone should do something with

By david.humphrey | Published: May 29, 2007
You walk into a bookstore, a used bookstore. The books are not so much on display as piled. There is every kind of book, from philosophy to literature to cook books to children’s stories. Sitting at the desk is a man smoking a pipe and reading something intently. You approach him [...]
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Open Source Education goes Platinum

By david.humphrey | Published: May 28, 2007
I wrote previously about my upcoming talk on open source education.  I’m happy to say that it went well, but for reasons I didn’t anticipate. The most exciting outcome for me was that after my talk, one of the people in the crowd introduced herself in order to take the discussion further.  This professor teaches business [...]
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Pestilence

By david.humphrey | Published: May 23, 2007
Three stories I wish I didn’t have to share. First, I found a live mouse that had fallen into a pail in our garage. I ate released it. Later in the day, I lit the bbq, and felt something fall on my foot and looked to see another (the same?) mouse diving [...]
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Taking it to the street

By david.humphrey | Published: May 22, 2007
There’s been a fair bit written in recent days about the importance of community initiative, the role of students, and the part educational institutions can play in order to encourage and enable this. I couldn’t agree more, and this week I’m working on doing my part to further these ideas. First, I’m gearing up for [...]
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Taco Dip Recipe

By david.humphrey | Published: May 21, 2007
We’re off to a bbq with friends in a few hours, and I’m taking my mother’s famous taco dip. Every time I make it people literally lick the plate clean. Here’s the recipe: Ingredients: 1 Package Cream Cheese at room temperature (you don’t need a full one) Sour Cream (also with this, you can use left-over [...]
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Overheard while buying seed

By david.humphrey | Published: May 20, 2007
We’re seeding out lot this weekend, and I had to share this exchange. For context, it’s common in the country to plant wheat with the grass for protection as it takes: Customer: “I’d like some wheat seed” Clerk: “Sure, I’ll get some.” Clerk goes to the back and returns with a bag Clerk: “Kevin, is this the wheat [...]
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Passwords in VNC#

By david.humphrey | Published: May 18, 2007
I get a fair bit of mail from people asking how to do their own password dialogs/functions in VNC#. I wrap the password function in a delegate of type AuthenticateDelegate, which takes no arguments and returns a string (i.e., the password). By default I stuff a call to a function that creates and [...]
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VNC# 0.9.0 Released

By david.humphrey | Published: May 16, 2007
I rolled a bunch of bug fixes and patches from people into a 0.9.0 release for VNC#. Some interesting work being done by folks all over the world with the code–thanks for your emails. It’s nice to read about all the ways people are using it. I’m not actively working on [...]
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