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On This Day...

• 2011: Managing configuration changes in Drupal — One of our clients asked if we had any tips for documenting and managing Drupal configuration, modules, versions, settings, and [...]
• 2010: LotusScript: Checking another database for categories that do not contain a document of a particular type — We want to scale up Innovation Discovery and share the insights/workshop methods with more people, so one of my tasks [...]
• 2009: Thoughts on Toodledo versus Emacs Org — It’s been a couple of months since I switched to using the Toodledo instead of Emacs Org to manage my [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending June 7, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Relationships: Play with photography Posted new phonos. Wealth/career: Revise guide, prepare Transition2 build, give Early Career Conference presentation, [...]
• 2009: Stage fright, visualization and improvization — “Maybe I should take a break from presenting,” I said, “and focus instead on writing blog posts and articles so [...]
• 2008: Drupal meetup in Toronto later – 7:00 at the Drake — Instead of self-defense and yoga classes today, I’m going to the Lullabot meetup for Drupal developers over at the Drake [...]
• 2008: Notes on backporting modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 5 — I needed a web statistics module for a Drupal-based project at work, and integrating an external web statistics module seemed [...]
• 2008: IBM Pass It Along – social learning! — I’m happy to share that one of my favorite Enterprise 2.0 tools within IBM is now available on the Internet. [...]
• 2007: Week in review — Back in Canada to work on my thesis. Outlined my thesis and started panicking about timing of work. Have decided to adjust [...]
• 2006: The Alchemist — Coelho, Paul. 1988. _The Alchemist._ p149. “From where I am,” the sun said, “I can see the Soul of the World. [...]
• 2006: One-thought — One of my greatest joys is one-thought: immersing myself so completely in the moment, focusing my entire self on a single [...]
• 2006: More conversations — Last night was also a spectacular evening. Kat, Mike, Shane, Simon, and I chatted over coffee for a while, then had [...]
• 2006: Centre Island — Today I finally made it out to Centre Island, thanks to Joe Whitney. It was a wonderfully sunny day. The ferry [...]
• 2004: “Cognitive Personal Assistant” — A computerized assistant that can schedule meetings, filter and prioritize email, and carry out other mundane administrative chores using artificial intelligence is [...]
• 2004: Yesterday — Talked about CS21A syllabus changes with Dr. Sarmenta, who is a lot more agreeable now than before. Also, had Paolo Venegas and [...]
• 2003: Cat stories — Awwww, my cat has a little bump on top of her head. Must be from all those times she hit the [...]
• 2003: Tips — Richard A. Detweiler, Information Week, June 6, 1994 1. Think both short-term and long-term at the same time, like a CEO [...]
• 2003: Open source course ware — - http://www.k12os.org/ - http://www.claroline.net/ - http://seul.org/edu/ - http://moodle.org