http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/ A digital record for [leading through, bringing along, from one point to another, bringing over to an opinion, inducing]; for [smearing over with a substance]. en-us Copyright 2006 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:00:14 -0800 Fri, 26 May 2006 09:38:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss There is an interesting post at the Tomorrow's Professor's blog about how professors are "intellectual entrepreneurs." I think this describes very well what I spend my time doing: raising money, selling my ideas, training people to execute the ideas... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2006/01/academics_are_i.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2006/01/academics_are_i.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:00:14 -0800 I just finished reading an interesting paper from the UBICOMP 2005 conference, called "Living for the Global City: Mobile Kits, Urban Interfaces, and Ubicomp". It's available online for a fee, but if you hunt around you can find a... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2006/01/living_for_the.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2006/01/living_for_the.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:00:00 -0800 God's Politics by Jim Wallis is an encouraging book that critiques the state of religion and politics in the U.S. Some of the points that I drew from the book are: ...that the Republicans have co-opted the sincerely faithful... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/10/gods_politics.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/10/gods_politics.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:07:11 -0800 This is a book on object-oriented programming design. It is somewhat a classic. It was something I really should have read long ago, but never had a course that required it. It talks about standard design techniques for recurring... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/07/design_patterns.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/07/design_patterns.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:11:00 -0800 I recently finished listening to the audio book version of David Allen's "Getting Things Done". This was a really good motivator for how to deal with the constant interruptions of modern information work. Not just external interruptions but also... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/card_based_time.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/card_based_time.html Stuff That I'm Messing With Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:25:52 -0800 I just finished Getting Tenure by Marcia Whiker, Jennie Konenfeld, and Ruth Stickland. Although it was written in 1993 it seemed remarkably relevant in its concerns and evaluations of the process of getting tenure. It did a good job... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/getting_tenure.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/getting_tenure.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:00:17 -0800 I'm on this business book kick and this is the most recent one that I've read. It gives an overview of some of the reasons why it is a good idea to incorporate your small business as a "C"... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/inc_and_grow_ri.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/inc_and_grow_ri.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:27:46 -0800 A UN Report on China's response to the AIDS crisis. This was eye-opening to me about how the U.N. sees the world in relation to AIDS. In particular the terms "men who have sex with men" and "sex worker"... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/hivaids_chinas.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/06/hivaids_chinas.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:31:44 -0800 Jumper is the first book that I've actually read for fun in quite a while. It was a nice change of pace to be reading a book that I couldn't put down. The book is about a young man... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/05/jumper_by_steve.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/05/jumper_by_steve.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Thu, 19 May 2005 10:14:21 -0800 Here are Amazon's statistically improbably phrases from this book: educated dad, your financial intelligence, rich dad, safe secure job, financial literacy, fix toilets, cash flow pattern, asset columns, pay yourself first, expense column, poor dad This book was a... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/05/rich_dad_poor_d.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/05/rich_dad_poor_d.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Thu, 05 May 2005 07:30:35 -0800 This was a very northwest book on Christian spirituality. It was fun for me to read because I knew a few of the people that the author talks about. The church that the author mentions, Imago Dei, is somewhat... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/04/blue_like_jazz_1.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/04/blue_like_jazz_1.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:00:05 -0800 Donald Knuth, one of the heavy weights of computer science academics, talks about how computer science has given him insights about the nature of God and his relationship with him. I enjoyed this book. He is a great role... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/04/things_a_comput.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/04/things_a_comput.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:27:56 -0800 Don't you just hate it when you run out of the office with a copy of Doucet, Freitas, and Gordon's book, "Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Practice", but you really should have had Duda, Hart, and Stork's, "Pattern Classification"... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/01/dont_you_hate_i.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2005/01/dont_you_hate_i.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:20:12 -0800 Cornell University's new president Jeffrey S. Lehman began his term with a one year extended conversation with the University and extended community centered on a set of questions that sought to determine the future directions of Cornell University. The... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2004/10/cornells_call_t_1.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2004/10/cornells_call_t_1.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:52:27 -0800 This is a wonderful kid's book that I read as a child and just recently finished reading to my son. It is a winner of the Newberry award for children's literature. It tells the story of Professor William Waterman... http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2004/10/the_twentyone_b_1.html http://www.djp3.net/codexperductum/archives/2004/10/the_twentyone_b_1.html Stuff That I've Read For "Fun" Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:00:00 -0800