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I have talked about some of the things I would like to see in electronic book readers before. I have a feeling that this is a list that is fundamentally incomplete simply because I haven’t sat down and actually analyzed the problem from an engineering standpoint. However, I read something on Cult of [...]

As I’m sure many of you know, I graduated from Purdue University in 2003 with a degree in Computer Engineering. It’s been 5 years since I graduated and I recently had the opportunity to visit Purdue for the first time since graduation. To say that Purdue has undergone a lot of change in [...]

I don’t really have the opportunity to watch as many movies as I once did, but I recently saw The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky whom you might remember from Pi or Requiem for a Dream. At 96 minutes long The Fountain is an incredibly descriptive movie that says quite a bit more than movies [...]

For many people the idea of reading a book about a mathematical proof right after finishing a semester in a Computer Science graduate program would be an apt definition of torture. First, I am not one of those people. Second, Fermat’s Enigma really isn’t a book about math so much as [...]

I am beginning to slowly comprehend the extent to which Randy Pausch is sneaky smart. Maybe. I honestly don’t know, but he’s absolutely got me enthralled in a riddle.
If you don’t know who Randy Pausch is or you haven’t already read my previous posts about Dr. Pausch’s “Last Lecture” and about [...]

Slashdot recently reported on an ArsTechnica article on the death of RealID. There are several things to take from this.
First, RealID is horrible from a privacy and liberty standpoint. This is well-known to anyone who actively concerns themselves with these sorts of issues. It is essentially a national ID card. Depending [...]

Last night I watched Randy Pausch’s Time Management Talk. I stumbled upon a list of his other lectures that were in video format. I figured that he was an excellent presenter in his “Last Lecture” and so he would probably be an excellent presenter in other presentations. He was.
It’s kind of interesting [...]

First, let me extend my condolances to the family of the woman who was killed after answering a Craigslist Ad in Minnesota. It’s never easy to lose a loved one, but it is much harder losing someone so young and so unexpectedly.
I heard about this story on CNN this morning. Unfortunately, murders happen [...]

Dr. Randy Pausch recently received national attention for his “Last Lecture.” Naturally, I didn’t hear about it until I found it on Robin’s blog. Dr. Pausch is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also dying from cancer. His “Last Lecture” covered his thoughts on how to go [...]

Clarence Thomas was interviewed on 60 Minutes tonight. I was still rather young when Thomas was going through his confirmation process and I didn’t realize that he only had about one year of experience as a judge at the time. There were a lot of political machinations that were going on with his [...]