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On This Day...

• 2012: Practising faces —   Deliberate practice is an important part of learning how to draw. I’ve been taking advantage of the ease of tracing [...]
• 2011: Running the Selenium IDE testing plugin with Firefox 4 — Selenium is a web testing framework that allows you to test web applications involving HTML and Javascript. The plugin hasn’t [...]
• 2010: Thinking about travel — I’ve just submitted my application to IBM’s Corporate Service Corps, which sends IBMers to emerging countries. The volunteers work with [...]
• 2009: Ethics and egos in virtual assistance and relationships — Leesa Barnes is very firm about this: outsourcing social media content and relationships is not okay. I mostly agree. oDesk and [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2008: Best Practices Conference – April 1, Day 2 — I feel much less intimidated now.  That Best Practices conference is small, almost cozy. Thanks to social networking–and the blog, [...]
• 2006: From Kathy: Capybara night — Ladies and gentlemen, I present my sister, the cook. <grin> Happy April Fools! :) I hope you weren’t victim to some completely [...]
• 2006: Triscuit — I _have_ to stop eating these. They’re nice, they’re crunchy, they remind me of granola bars… But I _really_ have to [...]
• 2006: Graduate House — I went to the common room to study, and I heard someone playing “Speak Softly, Love” from The Godfather. It turned [...]
• 2006: Salmon and mashed potatoes with Steve and Mike — Steve’s out on a weekend pass, so we celebrated with an impromptu cooking party. I defrosted and panfried some salmon steak. [...]
• 2005: Fantastic explanation of cost of software — From We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin: “Every license for Office plus Windows in Brazil – a country in which 22 million [...]
• 2005: Went to bars — <gasp> End of the world, that. Ended up going with my sister, my godfather and his nephew. We went to the Absolut [...]
• 2004: Interesting courses for this summer — CS 129.6: EXTREME PROGRAMMING: M-F 9:00 – 12:00, CTC-215 (3 units) This is a seminar course that focuses on a relatively [...]
• 2004: Related software: Ideakeeper, Z-write — - Ideakeeper: Hyperlinked notes, access from anywhere, but limitations on hyperlinking and only grabs clipboard contents. However, automatically/manually washes clipboard entries, so [...]
• 2003: squidstat —
• 2003: Code fragment repository? — http://sourceforge.net/snippet/ Also, see http://dumbcode.org . Is http://www.freshbones.net up yet? (Update 2003.12.30: http://sourceforge.net/snippet is alive and well. http://www.freshbones.net is still not up. http://dumbcode.org is [...]
• 2003: Computer Science Unplugged — education — In the thread “CS for 5th graders” on the ACM SIGCSE members mailing list, Beth Simon writes: The unequivocal winner is [...]