Randy Pausch, famous for his Last Lecture, amoung other things, has passed away.
He would probably like to be rememberd through donations made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
R.I.P. Randy Pausch
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InfoQ Made Me Famous!!
No sooner had I discovered that I’m on YouTube, than I find out that InfoQ has published a short blurb on user stories that I wrote. My phone is ringing; could it be Hollywood calling.
😛
Update (6/22/08)
The story inspired a long discussion on the Scrum Development Yahoo group.
Long Live Lucky Oliver
On Wednesday, I’m doing a presentation on doing presentations. One of the little gems that I was looking forward to passing on was Lucky Oliver. It has been my favorite source for images for presentations and the web. The quality and variety of the images has been consistently great, and the prices were more than affordable. Today I discovered that Lucky Oliver will be closing down on May 15th. I’m sad to be losing this source for great photos, and sad to see the business fail. Best of luck to Bryan, and everyone else at Lucky Oliver.
Now where am I going to get my images? Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Joel On Software Stuff
I just read this rambling interview with Joel Spolsky, over at ACM Queue.
He mentions the early days of Joel on Software, even before he started Fog Creek Software. Back then he had a bit more time for writing, and created some essays that I still consider required reading. Examples include: Read the full article…
Earth-like Planet Discovered
Average temperature ranges from 32 to 104 Fahrenheit. It has about twice the surface area and twice the gravity of earth, and it celebrates New Year’s Day once every 13 earth days. As soon as we can travel at the speed of light, trips to the planet, located in the constellation Libra, will only take about 20 years.
There is a full article on the World Science website.