1. Identi.ca and XMPP

    I've been trying out micro-blogging through Identi.ca recently. (I'm jpichon, if you're curious.) I find their integration with XMPP both awesome and handy, so here's a quick guide to setting it up and using it, if you haven't given it a try yet.

    Activating it

    Start by adding update …

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  2. 'Intro to programming', session #3

    I suspect I must have sounded particularly freaked out when people were late last week, because this time (last Monday) several people added a variant of "but I love the course!" at the end of their message letting me know they couldn't attend, haha! I once again left full of …

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  3. Book review: Stones into Schools, by Greg Mortenson & Mike Bryan | Promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Stones into Schools is the follow-up story to Three cups of tea, starting in 2003 where we left Greg Mortenson looking to expand the Central Asia Institute mission to building schools in Afghanistan. As expected the story is just as engaging and fascinating as the one narrated in the first …

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