Entries from April 2007 ↓

In homage to Jeremy’s posts on opening sentences and paragraphs that convince you to keep reading, here’s the intro to a chapter I stumbled across today that almost guarantees I’ll finish the whole thing:
Yossarian looked at the professor soberly and tried another approach.  “Does Orr have a theory?”
“He sure does,” Prof. Daneeka responded.
“Then can you [...]

You can now get 2GB of free online backup from Mozy whether you have a PC or a Mac.  And if you click on this link to register, both you and I will get an extra 256MB of free storage space.
I don’t know why I never looked into online storage options in the past — [...]

Today I checked my email just twice during the work day, once at 11 AM and once at 4 PM.  Man, was that ever great!  I’m going to see if I can keep it up, because I liked the results.  By scheduling “email time” I stayed much more focused during the larger blocks of time [...]

As far as I was concerned, ABD was just the Turkish acronym for the United States (Amerika Birleşik Devletleri).  But since Monday, it also applies to yours truly because I defended my dissertation prospectus and I’m All But Dissertation!
Did anyone else who’s been through this before feel a rush at this point?  How long before [...]

We made it back from Iowa okay, but I have my dissertation prospectus defense this Monday so I’m a little too swamped to do much blogging.  I hope to be posting regularly and responding to comments again early next week.

As usual, I let one of these carnivals slip by unnoticed, so today I can point you to the 8th and 9th Carnivals of GRADual Progress.  The 8th was hosted by Half an Acre and the 9th has just gone up at Fumbling Towards Geekdom.  Check ‘em out and spread the word!

Here’s the desktop image from the Turkish version of Windows.  This has made the rounds, but it still makes me chuckle.  [full-size image opens in new window]