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  1. Matthew Presser

    Not Feeling Well

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    I was going to post an interesting story on a cave I discovered in Minecraft tonight, but I feel as though I’ve started coming down with a bug.  I think it might be the flu that’s been going around again (I thought we were out of flu season?) so I’ve been stuck in bed all ...
  2. Matthew Presser

    A Few Days With Erlang

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    Day 1 Sam: I started the first day by reading the first half or so of the chapter on Erlang in “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks”. I noted some interesting facts about the language, such as that it powers Facebook’s chat. I think I told every one of my friends about that for the next ...
  3. Matthew Presser

    A Few Days With Erlang

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    Day 1 Sam: I started the first day by reading the first half or so of the chapter on Erlang in “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks”. I noted some interesting facts about the language, such as that it powers Facebook’s chat. I think I told every one of my friends about that for the next ...
  4. Matthew Presser

    Why I hate WordPress

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    Bloat. Jim has forced me to switch over to WordPress for the duration of the course, but I won’t go quietly.  From the moment I opened up the control panel, I didn’t know what was going on.  I was hit from every direction with customizable features such as widgets, themes, and sidebar content.  Just what ...
  5. Matthew Presser

    Repartitioning

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    Or, "How I destroyed months of work, pictures, music, and my level-headedness." I know I've been inactive for a while, and it's mostly been because I've been afraid to blog about how much I hate not being able to blog about...
  6. Matthew Presser

    "It’s a Bag of Gold!"

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    "What part of that don't you understand?" In Gardner Campbell's talk on "Digital Facelifts," he discusses ow the digital medium for learning is analogous to the printing press.  I agree wholeheartedly with this, ...
  7. Matthew Presser

    More Features

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    As I'm sure you'll be able to see, I've added a Twitter feed to the "Cool Stuff" portion of the sidebar. This was easy enough, as Googling "add twitter to my site" immediately led me (read "I followed the first r...
  8. Matthew Presser

    Introduction

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    A little about me. (The back cover of Rush's 1984 album, Grace Under Pressure) This is my life.  Grace Under Pressure.  "To live between a rock and a hard place" ("Between the Wheels", Rush) would be an u...
  9. Matthew Presser

    Site Progress

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    The most important parts of the site are now working. Future functionality: comments!  Links!  Other cool stuff!  Maybe some Minecraft!

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