Category: Education
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Practice vs. Learning
I bought a new, amazing book from Audible.com (an Amazon company) for a whopping 99 cents, The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life. I listened to the Introduction and Chapter 1 this morning while walking on the treadmill and I absolutely love it so far! Key themes so far include inner peace/happiness, self empowerment…
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10 Time Saving Tech Tips
I’ve told you this story once before but before I share the contents of today’s post I want to tell it again (for fun). Early in my career while playing a game of Taboo on a work outing, one of my co-workers, also a software engineer, started his turn to have us all guess a word. He grabbed…
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Zuckerberg Reads
I’m so proud of my oldest niece – she purchased her first set of Christmas gifts this year with her own money. She KNOWS I LOVE to read so my gift was a book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (book review). I smile every time I look at it. Now, even though I said Bye-Bye to Facebook in…
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I Can Be a Computer Engineer
Mattel recently released a dual Barbie book titled: I Can Be an Actress/I Can Be a Computer Engineer. Cool! There’s a national focus on Girls and STEM, so this can only be good, right? WRONG! One blogger sums it up this way: “Despite having ruined her own laptop, her sister’s laptop, and the library’s computers, not to mention…
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Online Tracking
Have you ever wondered how a website (i.e. Facebook) knows what you searched for on another website, (i.e. Macy’s)? Yahoo Tech explains the fundamentals of Online Tracking. Loosely, “First, When you visit a visit a Web site that contains ads, those ads leave behind text files on your computer called ‘tracking cookies’. These files contain a…
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