Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Random Musings
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Random Musings
Like many of you, I give lots of public (and not so public) presentations, on a variety of topics. A couple of those were recently captured and placed on the web.
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Comic Book Heroes and Secret Identities
Microsoft and Seagate have recently launched a joint comic book series about IT professionals, called Heroes Happen Here (HHH). It is linked to a Microsoft product launch (Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008) and the associated marketing campaign. HHH will run through the end of June, and the writers are soliciting…
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Yo, Head Crashes, Dude!
In a better living through chemistry moment, I then rummaged through my travel kit and downed all the combinations of acetomenephin (Tylenol), naproxen (Aleve) and ibuprofen (Advil) I could find – no help.
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CRA Columns
I write a quarterly column for the Computing Research Association (CRA)’s newsletter, Computing Research News (CRN). This column muses on computing research, education, federal research funding and a variety of other issues that catch my fancy.
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Knives, Forks and Pizza, Oh My!
So, if you see a business traveler with the standard equipment of black rollerboard and laptop computer bag, trudging grimly through the airport, look for the thousand yard stare. It’s a tip off that they are tired, hungry and just want to sleep in their own bed.