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On This Day...

• 2012: Six ways I’m learning how to get better at drawing sketchnotes — Joel wanted to know if I could share any tips on kickstarting and continuing sketching practice, so I thought about [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending March 25, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Sort out web services on Websphere Application Server [X] Figure out work priorities [...]
• 2010: Missing something I love about presentations — While preparing for PresentationCampToronto, I found myself thinking about how I turn what I learn into presentations, the different kinds [...]
• 2009: The innovator’s innovator — One of the things I love about working with IBM is that we get to think about and experiment with [...]
• 2009: RSS footers — I’ve noticed an increasing number of automated spam blogs (splogs) that syndicate my blog posts, usually with a teensy bit [...]
• 2008: Three tips for long flights — Flying to the other side of the world means almost a full day in transit. Here are three tips to [...]
• 2008: Morning Pages — Kathryn Everest has the most vivid figures of speech I know. Yesterday, she described social media adoption as “You can [...]
• 2007: Tea time should be for everyone — I was thinking about whether to organize my Sunday tea parties along conversational themes, carefully scheduling guests to ensure an amicable mix. [...]
• 2007: Ethics approval! — Yay, got ethics approval for my usability study! Now I just have to work on polishing up the prototype and making [...]
• 2007: Tea Party 2: Attack of the Eclairs — Guests: James Iveniuk Wayne Young Jessica Young Simon Rowland Served: Eclairs (happy! ;) ) Ambrosia apples Clementines A marvelous assortment of tea, from which Simon chose Mountain Spring Jasmine Wayne [...]
• 2007: My own place — Another paean to the joys of having my own place! I’m coming to *like* not having other people around, at least [...]
• 2006: Onions — It seems like a good day to make onion soup. I’ve chopped all of my onions. Now what? On Technorati: cooking Random Japanese sentence: [...]
• 2006: Forks — I hate forks. In other news, it’s too sunny for it to be this gray a day. On Technorati: sad Random Japanese sentence: [...]
• 2005: Still sick — I still have a hard time swallowing, and I’m somewhat warmer than normal. Oh well. Also feel very—no, not quite sleepy, [...]
• 2003: curriculum review meeting — DISCS Planning Kick-Off Meeting Issues / Plans - New Chair: Didith - Research Program goal: create more structure in our research proposal: form “research groups” hard [...]
• 2003: compaq tablet tc1000 — tech — This looks pretty sweet. I’ll look around for it here, and if it feels nice, I’ll see if I can justify [...]
• 2003: student home directories — Students should be able to have their own directories, and preferably have their own webpages too. They also need to be [...]
• 2003: i-manila connection works fine — Looks like POP connections to i-manila work again. Cool! It’s a universal conspiracy – the minute I complain about things in [...]
• 2003: puzzles at IBM — The website of the person who wished to remain anonymous also turns up an interesting link to monthly puzzles at IBM (http://www.research.ibm.com/ponder). Update: [...]
• 2003: strange search queries — These are some of the ways people have gotten to my website: InterestingQueries
• 2003: personal information — Ooops. Hadn’t realized I’d left some of the student lists out of my .cvsignore . My apologies to people who found [...]
• 2003: finite state automata — For finite state automata, someone who wishes to remain anonymous uses gastex (http://www.liafa.jussieu.fr/~gastin/gastex/gastex.html). Thanks for the tip!
• 2003: sony pcg-u1 battery life: 2 hours — tech — I think I need one of those extended batteries. The specs of my computer can be found at http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1056 . In comparison, the [...]