Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
The Crooked Timber folks talking about the skill of management. One point in that discussion: communication of academic concepts to non-academics requires serious empathy. Gotta work on that. In fact, gotta work on my presentation …
MyDomain, a.k.a. 000Domains, treats my domain, brainwane.net, differently because I registered it more than five years ago. So now I have to call them up or suchlike to renew the thing. Blah. What registrar are …
As a matter of course I wish to direct you to http://del.icio.us/leonardr/sumana for random links I run across while dallying on the Web. Example: the hilarious "I consume, but then analyze!" which is by the …
Twelve inches does not seem very long, and yet a twelve-inch sandwich is pretty big. My marching band CD is helping me work and keep my mood up. I wonder why I find marches less …
We got a demo of a fancy new web-based software tool -- project management, task tracking, bug tracking, collaboration, Agile, Extreme Programming, a singing, dancing, iterating revue. I know a little something about the tradeoffs …
Peppy music (e.g., Barcelona, certain campaign/labor/war songs), handball in the morning breeze, getting documents written and sent, working outdoors on a beautiful spring day.
During yesterday's class, as part of a puzzle-solving team, I wrote a Python program and a comic skit. That was really nice.
If you miss Spamusement, then spamuse yourself by guessing the subject lines that led to these comics. Speaking of trivia quizzes, Leonard and I played this periodic table quiz and some other quizzes from that …
I now grok feedback I've been getting from my superiors for weeks. I need to improve my listening skills and help other people feel comfortable in difficult discussions. Time to reread Carnegie!
Leonard's daily conference call just now sounded like You Look Nice Today. Thus, I thought of an idea for another comedy podcast: a parody of a daily or weekly conference call. Think The Office. Also …