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On This Day...

• 2011: Meaning and acknowledgement — J- brought home her report card this week. She did well in so many subjects that it’s hard to pick [...]
• 2010: Book: Making Peace with Your Office Life — This is the first time I’ve read a comprehensive guide for debugging your work environment. “Making Peace with Your Office [...]
• 2009: Changing hats — I’ll be changing hats at work. For the last year or so, my primary focus had been a Drupal-based project [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending June 28, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Complete contact preferences feature and admin feature for forums (Drupal) Skipped Givetwo presentations at work (LinkedIn and [...]
• 2006: Dan Zen, Mad Inventor — I met Dan Zen (http://www.zenmix.com) at a Flash get-together. Mad inventor meets Internet finds peace = cool! MPG – 2 MB On [...]
• 2006: Kensington poi video — My sister Kathy taught me how to do poi for fun. =) It’s a nifty hobby, and one I always [...]
• 2005: Really funky Planner sorting — The following code sorts completed tasks in reverse-chronological order and incomplete tasks in chronological order. This makes it easier to see the [...]
• 2004: COFFEE OR TEA? — I turned, startled, as the doors burst open and the staccato beat of her heels on tiles announced her approach. From [...]
• 2004: Used up the meatballs — I used up the meatballs by having my mom over for lunch and Marcelle over for a late dinner, so I [...]
• 2004: 8-ball answers — - Signs point to yes. - Yes. - Reply hazy, try again. - Without a doubt. - My sources say no. - As I see [...]
• 2003: Girls’ night — Watched “Casablanca” and “Sabrina” (the old version) last night – had a girls’ night in with Diane and Elaigh. Much much [...]
• 2003: New wishlist — - Programming Challenges (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387001638/ref=nosim/thealgorithmrepo/)
• 2003: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education — http://www.aace.org
• 2003: Top Ten Tomcat Configuration Tips — http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/tomcat_tips.html
• 2003: “Uncrossed Wires” — The inability to determine what an individual is saying when other chatter is taking place, as well as having discussions become a [...]
• 2003: “New Finding Has Implications For Scientists Designing New Mobile Audio Interfaces” — People who carry on conversations with text-to-speech (TTS) computer systems modify their speech patterns so they are more in keeping with the [...]