Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. When it comes to well-known adages that’s amongst my all time favorites, but I wonder how well it plays amongst professional fishermen? There’s a community that clearly already knows how to fish, but [...]
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My son is currently in his first year of learning to play the trumpet. It all started a couple of weeks before the school year at something they called “band camp”. This was an hour a day, week long thing at the school where Mrs. Moore, the music teacher at the school, introduced them to [...]
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At my college, everyone had to take a class called Senior Seminar during their senior year to graduate. This was a liberal arts course that really just got in the way of most of us at our technical university, but it had to be done. The interesting part about it was that depending upon which [...]
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During a recent trip to see my doctor, I decided to forgo the typical waiting room Hollywood trash fodder and picked up copy of Diabetes Health. This particular issue had an article in it about the Chicago Diabetes Project. This is an effort that is using open source concepts to help find a cure for [...]
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I recently had occasion to go to CollabNet headquarters in Brisbane, CA. My flight from Chicago to San Francisco was on a totally full Boeing 777. As the plane was loading in Chicago, I witnessed from my choice vantage point in seat 22E (yes, that’s the middle seat in coach of a 2-5-2 configuration) a [...]
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