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On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Two weeks ending July 9, 2011 — Ah, holiday weekends. Forgot to do my review last week. =) From the other week’s plans Work [X] Visit [...]
• 2010: Sooner or later? Expertise and the new — I will learn how to sell, sooner or later. The question is: sooner, or later? Years of experience can help a [...]
• 2008: Ruby code to quickly convert titles to ISBNs — I love the Toronto Public Library system. I can’t say that enough. I particularly love how I can go on [...]
• 2008: To dream the impersonal dream — I’ve been trying to find words to explain what it’s like wanting to make things happen, how it’s not about [...]
• 2007: Geek… — Darn. It looks like Statistics is one of those subjects that creeps up on you and clamps onto your brain when [...]
• 2006: CookOrDie: Vegetarian virtues — After quite a hiatus from CookOrDie blogging because I’d either been eating out or cooking simple things, I decided to experiment [...]
• 2006: Short-term plans: happy with research, thinking about internship? — Mark Chignell, Gordon Lee, Julie Waterhouse and I discussed my research plan this morning. I’m really lucky to have such wonderful, wonderful [...]
• 2006: Visited a friend — I found myself in the neighborhood of a good friend I hadn’t talked to in a while, so I decided to [...]
• 2006: Finally on a phone plan — I’ve switched to a plan that gives me free incoming calls and (practically) unlimited text messages. My new number is +1416TADANOW. Or [...]
• 2005: Things you can do with RSS — Check out Things You Can Do with RSS for lots of interesting uses for RSS aggregators like Bloglines. =) Great [...]
• 2005: semi-form letters: hooray for open source! — I needed to write 31 thank-you-for-attending-my-send-off-party e-mail messages. Instead of having a generic letter that I’d send to lots of people all [...]
• 2005: Also from Trim Path: Javascript MVC framework — Junction brings the power of the Ruby on Rails web MVC framework to JavaScript. It makes it much easier to develop web-based [...]
• 2003: Hmmm, not so many updates this time — I should come up with a matrix to show the students that I’m keeping track of where they are and what [...]
• 2003: Cool student programs — I’ll be highlighting some cool programs in my journal. =) I’ll write up the ones that are in my mindmap (XML, [...]
• 2003: Javascript + XUL ideas — I tend to download a lot of links; it would be nice to have a list of downloadable links and select [...]
• 2003: Window manager decisions — I will stay in ion and use Xnest for apps that have weird dialog boxes, like Openoffice.
• 2003: Oooh, teaching story! — My students are brilliant _and_ having fun! =) I’ve gotten e-mail from students along the lines of “I was thinking in the [...]
• 2003: Openoffice exports to Flash — Nifty! OpenOffice presentations can be exported to Flash. =) Hmm. WebCast?
• 2003: Clipart wanted for document: — manager developer sweatdrop (for Use Cases) stacks of paper person sleeping