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Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll

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I decided to do some clean-up of this blog and migrate off of WordPress in the process. The site is now hosted on GitHub Pages and uses Jekyll for static sit...

JavaScript Snowflake

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It’s getting to be that time of the year again. Soon I’ll have to break out the shovel, but before then, I thought I’d put together a short tutorial on how t...

Touch Tomorrow at WPI

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On Saturday, June 8th we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts for the Touch Tomorrow festival. This was a free all day s...

Processing Monsters Meets Career Day

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It was almost exactly four years ago, back in December of 2008, that I was invited to give a brief talk to the Career Club at my son’s elementary school abou...

Happy Carl Sagan Day!

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Carl Edward Sagan was born on this day in 1934. His 13 part television series Cosmos aired in the autumn of 1980 when I was still in middle school. Like many...