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New blog is live!
My new blog is now live at http://sarah.thesharps.us. Comments are enabled, and you can add the RSS feed at http://sarah.thesharps.us//index.rss.
neurophyre, care to make a syndicated feed? I personally like my new blog's layout better, but if my friends still want to track me through LJ ( Read more... ) -
Organizing my life
I've been slightly side-tracked from my quest to host my own blog by the search for a good calendar and todo list application. It is still sort of relevant, because I'd like to embed my calendar in my blog. It's really useful to point family members to a web calendar and say, "You pick a free night for us to have dinner ( Read more... ) -
Blogging software
Livejournal's recent decision to stop offering Ad-free blogs to new users has only made me more confident in my decision to switch to hosting my own blog ( Read more... ) -
Today is a wonderful day because...
My big presentation went well yesterday. I presented to all the managers in my group and Imad. (Imad runs the Open Source Technology Center (OTC) and is my manager's manager's boss.) My manager said that he didn't think anyone was bored, and it was the right level of technical detail. Go me! It was my first real exposure since I joined OTC in ( Read more... ) -
What a gorgous day!
I saw a hummingbird for the first time this year. I heard that distinctive short chirp, and looked up to see a blur of wings in the willow tree. Spring is here! Time to start my tomato seeds. :) -
Garden!
Today, I got the OK from Mike to build a tiered garden in the front lawn. Here's some pics of my plan:
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"Toto, I think we're not in Kansas anymore."
Today I decided to try a new bike route from Washington Park to Sunset Transit Center. I got really lost:
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How to beat a bad grade
I started to explain to my sister how to calculate her grade in a class she was having trouble in, and then I realized it was semi-complicated. It's a very important skill to know when you need to drop a class to protect your GPA, and it's not one they teach you in Freshman Inquiry.
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Ignite Portland 2 was a blast!
The video from my talk is up. I'm disappointed that they didn't show my slides in the video, but man did I rock! I think that was the best speech I've given yet. I hope that talking about the Portland State Aerospace Society in front of 750 Portlanders will lure people to a PSAS meeting ( Read more... ) -
Ignite Portland 2
Last week, I heard that my presentation proposal for Ignite Portland 2 was accepted. The idea is that you present your passion in 5 minutes with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds ( Read more... )