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On This Day...

• 2013: First impressions of Artrage 4 — I occasionally use Artrage Studio Pro for tracing images or animating sketchnotes. The interface doesn’t lend itself as well to [...]
• 2012: Visual metaphors: Success — This is part of my Visual Metaphors series. I’m drawing these to help expand my visual vocabulary for drawing sketchnotes. [...]
• 2011: Victoria Day weekend: back to the garden — Back home and back to the garden! The plants had been very busy growing while I was away. The oregano [...]
• 2010: The garden in May —     I’ve written a little bit about our garden, but I haven’t reflected on how the garden helps [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending May 22, 2009 — From last week: Revise our event calendar some more I think I’ve gotten a handle on those pesky timezone problems… Fix up [...]
• 2009: Monthly review: April 2009 — Better late than never! =) Here’s what April 2009 was all about: HappinessI thought about my typical day’s happiness, what makes [...]
• 2009: Drupal: Timezones and places — The Drupal date_timezone module (part of Date) lets you use city names instead of timezone offsets in order to select [...]
• 2007: It’s good to be back — I still hate travelling by myself (especially when I can’t drown out distractions with music), but welcomes like this make it [...]
• 2006: ARGH! — It’s a good thing that I’ve been cramming my paper all day, or I would’ve felt seriously upset about missing [...]
• 2006: Stranger of the Day: Greg — On my way out of the common room to grab some lunch, I saw a very interesting collection of postcards on [...]
• 2006: Up early — I’m up at 6 on the last day of a long weekend, _and_ I’m reading research papers. =) I hope Mark’s [...]
• 2004: Graduation — 55er — The valedictorian choked back tears several times during her speech. The keynote speaker drawled on with great seriousness. My co-teachers grudgingly paid [...]
• 2003: Took some PersonalityQuizzes — Hmmm. Picked them up from cyberlizard.
• 2003: Talked to a random stranger today — On the shuttle home from Libis, I chatted with Robert Rabago, an IBM communications intern who had recognized me from the [...]