I love RPN calculators. My favorite is Hypatia which I use regularly for calculations. I love being able to order my calculation to avoid brackets and being able to enter a list of numbers and add them up with a single command: hy 12 23.4 43 94 3 d SUMNow I am wondering about...
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The Laws of Identity
Kim Cameron posted a busy person’s summary of the Laws of Identity and invited comments. Here is my version. The Laws of Identity are fulfilled when … Individuals using computers can be in control of the information they give out about themselves. Individuals can give out just the information needed for the purpose at...
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Improving engagement in Distance Education
I am studying at the moment and would like to see an increase in the consistent engagement level demanded of me during the 14 or so weeks of the semester. At the same time, I would like to see this done in a way that doesn’t impact on the instructor’s time. Here is a...
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Lightweight Project Management
Good to be blogging again after a three month hiatus. The Work Breakdown Structure has caught my attention. The work breakdown structure is foundational to project management. My insight today is that the WBS could also be foundation to a task management tool. The beauty of the WBS is the way that it assists...
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Signless One-way Paths for Pedestrians
When I was at university getting from class to class between buildings meant fighting your way along a footpath against a flow of students coming the opposite direction. Solutions? You could widen the path (more concrete) or redesign the pathway using a similar width of concrete split into two paths, one for each direction....
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Adaptive Shop Facades
If all our building’s internal walls, signage as well as dynamic displays where flat panel displays what would happen? I was walking through a mall a few days ago and realised that pretty much all that I could see around me could be displayed on flat panels like those in Minority Report. There are...
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Internet All The Way Down
“STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming” has a great piece about the promise of a uniform model of computation based on arbitrary decomposition to the internet. On p32 they say: Part of the solution to “an Internet all the way down” has interesting conflicts with today’s hardware and we are curious to see just...
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