How I spent my Sabbatical

As I mentioned earlier, I took advantage of my 3 week sabbatical recently. I accomplished less than I hoped but still managed to do the following:

• Attended Startup Camp (Day 1, Day 2)
• Took a trip to Chicago with my wife
• Read the following books:

  Fooled By Randomness, Nicholas Nassim Taleb	The Pragmatic Programmer, David Thomas	Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze
  Refactoring, Martin Fowler		Getting Real, 37 Signals

• Created a new blog about Randomness called Survivor Bias.
• Built a rock garden in my back yard
• Had lunch with some former colleges to catch up.
• Finished a Ruby on Rails app I was building in my spare time at work.