Edward R. Tufte is an expert in information design. Some of you may have read his pamphlet The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (mostly bashing PowerPoint). Here we have his essential ideas in that pamphlet… in the PowerPoint bulleted-list format. 
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000931
P.S. I don’t entirely agree with all of Edward’s ideas in the pamphlet, but the pamphlet is a starting point for those of us who really think about our presentations. Maybe I will write about it later.
I just upgraded to WinMerge 2.2.2.0 and I can’t be happier.
WinMerge is a GUI for comparing and merging files. The new merge mode is very handy (F9) and it even highlights what’s changed within a region (F4). It can also compare between whole directories. Get it!
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
For those of you that work mostly in the command line (I do), you can put these two lines into wdiff.bat and put it in a directory in your path (I store all my small programs in “C:\Program Files\Misc”):
@echo off
start "" "C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMerge.exe" %*
Then you can invoke WinMerge just like diff. Note that %* means “all arguments passed to this batch file”.
The 44th Annual Greek Food Festival is coming!
The is one event that all is at CMU shouldn’t miss. It’s just a 5 minutes walk away from campus and you get really high quality Greek food. From May 8 to May 13, you can expect to see me eating their pastries non-stop. Yum!
Full menu is available at their website.
Today our undergrads put up a really huge poster in the NSH Atrium in honor of their beloved adviser Mark Stehlik. Kudos!
Click on the image to see it at its original size (6MP/2MB).
