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Site Redesign

July 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last Friday I decided I need to give my site a new theme - doing that in Wordpress usually takes one minute - copying the theme to your webhost directory and activating it. I hadn’t planned to do more.
What followed was one week consisting of a flurry of work (and it’s my week off actually [...]

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Say no to powerpoint, indeed

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

An entertaining pro-blackboard piece:
Doron Zeilberger’s 60th Opinion

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Differences In Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined

July 1st, 2007 · No Comments

I thought these results had already been discovered in a previous study, but no matter, you can never shout this out loudly enough: sleep patterns differ genetically, so all you early birds out there, leave us night owls alone in the morning (this means up to about lunch time in early-bird-speak
ScienceDaily: Individual Differences [...]

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Mouth-To-Mouth CPR Not So Helpful?

March 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

This has nothing to do with my research whatsoever, but I think it’s kind of important:
Mouth-To-Mouth CPR Not So Helpful?, Study: Chest Compression Best Resuscitation For Cardiac Arrest - CBS News

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Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication

February 4th, 2007 · No Comments

As I always have to cite this when communication miserably fails, I might as well put it on my blog. Be sure to read the commentary from Korpela.
Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication
Osmo Wiio gives us some communication maxims similar to Murphy’s law (Osmo Wiio, Wiio’s Laws–and Some Others (Espoo, Finland: Welin-Goos, 1978):
* If communication can [...]

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A difficult decision

August 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m not sure if I’m doing the right thing in splitting my site between a normal CMS (::wikipedia(”Content Management System”)::) and a blog, but it’s not unheard of on the web (meaning: quite common ;-)).
The advantage is full wordpress Blog functionality (with trackbacks and pingbacks), and no hassle with integrating a blog component in Joomla [...]

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First Post

August 28th, 2006 · No Comments

This is just a test post to see what’s going on. The inauguration of the blog site

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