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On This Day...

• 2011: Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history — From Tuesday: J- has started Grade 8, the year before high school. Last schoolyear, we invested more time into helping [...]
• 2010: ‘round the bend — You know those moments in formulaic movies. Our heroes hit their lowest points. Everything looks stressful. Then something changes, and [...]
• 2009: Quick thoughts — I’m starting to accumulate a backlog of things to write about. Life is too interesting to capture, and yet too [...]
• 2008: Drupal and Drush: Updating the database from the command-line — So now that we’re doing all our configuration changes in source code, it makes sense to automate database updates as [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Deploying two branches to three systems — To keep track of the bugfixes we’ll need to make for our next release, I’ve created a Subversion branch called [...]
• 2008: Working on a small project — Working on a small project means that I wear multiple hats, and that’s helping me grow so much as a [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — Here are the highlights of the last week: Finally got my paperwork together for the post-graduate work permit! After following up [...]
• 2007: Attack of the killer tomatoes — Vine-ripened tomatoes were on sale at No Frills, so we bought some 15 pounds of plump, red, juicy, fragrant tomatoes. Mmm! [...]
• 2006: Wow. Statistics can be fun. — I have a new favorite statistics textbook. Not that I had one before. Who knew that a statistics textbook could [...]
• 2006: Self-portrait with vintage hat — One of the things that surprises people is that as high-tech and plugged in as I am, I still have an [...]
• 2006: Twice-baked potatoes — One of the simple joys in life is waking up (relatively) early on a weekend morning and preparing a proper [...]
• 2006: Networking party in New York that I really, really want to go to — The Greater IBM Initiative is having its first party in New York City on Thursday, Sept 21. I really, really [...]
• 2005: Silk-screening workshop — Peach Berserk‘s silk-screening workshop looks amazing. I love their dresses, but not their prices! <laugh> Let’s start out by silkscreening something small, and [...]
• 2005: Geekwear — I actually like wearing geek swag: clothes and accessories with a logo or geek reference. Geek swag identifies me to other [...]
• 2005: Places to shop — ACT TWO 596 Mount Pleasant, 416-487-2486 Designer cast-offs CHOCKY’S 352 Queen West, 416-977-1831; 2584 Yonge, 416-483-8227 Pajamas and jackets ENDS 1930 Queen East, 416-699-2271, etc. Wool overcoats, etc. JO’S [...]
• 2003: Linux in Education links — http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/tricki/
• 2003: Plans for CS21A tomorrow — I think we’ll have fun. =) A lecture on searching and sorting - modified slides, whiz through most of it and [...]
• 2003: CS1 site — - http://www.cs.up.ac.za/javagently/ListEx.html has a lot of examples, and it has an overarching project. Hmm. Stuff seems to come from the Java Gently [...]
• 2003: Interesting words — - http://phrontistery.50megs.com/ - http://phrontistery.50megs.com/scrabble3.html
• 2003: Hare Race — That didn’t go too well; not polished enough. The exercise is at HareRace-20030916.jar just in case.
• 2002: (Mon Sep 16:23 2002, *Messages*) — Fixed planner remember bug – context was getting picked up after the switch of buffer.
• 2002: (Mon Sep 16:59 2002, 2002.09.16) — Jean Paul Sartre self-making essentialism
• 2002: (Mon Sep 16:52 2002, 2002.09.16) — http://www.xref-tech.com/