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Fairfax Computer Camp Day 3: Small Basic and Kodu
On our third day of the Fairfax Computer Camp, we started out Small Basic for a second day and I immediately noticed that the enthusiasm had waned a bit. I was also noticing that Small Basic was still...
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Fairfax Computer Camp Day 4: Building and Testing Kodu Games
On the fourth day of the Fairfax Computer camp the campers were busy building, refining, and testing the games that they were creating with Kodu. Almost all of the kids tried some of the sample games...
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Fairfax Computer Camp Day 5: Kodu Games Completed
Friday was the last day of the Fairfax Computer Camp, an informal camp that I led in my house for my 9-year-old son Alex and nine of his friends and I would say that is was an absolute success. By...
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Today I have made up a new word – please use it freely:allusophorianounthe sense of delight experienced on discovering the origin of a literary allusion.Usage in a sentence“Alex felt allusophoria and...
View ArticleMy Second Patent Awarded
I just learned that I was awarded a patent for work that I did as part of a team at Mindjet creating “smart map parts”. I look back very proudly at my four years at Mindjet in software development and...
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Architecture: My New Windows Phone App
I just published my first Windows Phone App, Architecture, which helps users find architectural projects from around the world and nearby. It uses projects from the Urbarama site. Please give it a...
View ArticleFinches Nesting at our House
Recently a pair of finches has built a nest in a light fixture on our porch in Fairfax. I hooked up a webcam and about 5 USB extension cables to a PC to get a live feed of the Finch nest. Take a look...
View ArticleThe Strangers Among Us
Last year during the high holidays my congregation Gan Halev asked me to give a talk to the congregation during the Yom Kippur service. Now I am hearing the reports about the flood of unaccompanied...
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My Story
Since a young age I was always good with computers. I spent many years of my adolescence tinkering on a personal computer: first TRS-80s at school, and then an IBM PCjr at home. It was a logical...
View ArticleSteal These Journaling Ideas at SxSW 2016
I have always seen SXSW as my "creativity recharge" for the year and now I want to help others spark their own creativity by sharing my journaling ideas in a workshop "Steal These Journaling Ideas":...
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