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On This Day...

• 2012: Taking a month off from consulting — I’m taking all of September off from consulting so that I can present at a conference, spend time with family, [...]
• 2011: Batch cooking — From Sunday night: Cooking large batches of food can be tiring, but for us, it’s worth it. Today, W- and [...]
• 2010: Week ending August 29, 2010 — SCHEDULED: 2010-08-30 Mon 8:00 From last week’s plans Work [X] Have several mentoring conversations [X] Run [...]
• 2007: More cooking — I made arroz caldo from scratch today. It’s one of my comfort foods, and I felt really satisfied when I made [...]
• 2006: A fountain pen again — Essence du Papier called me recently to tell me that the Waterman I’d been pining for had arrived. I headed over [...]
• 2006: Awesome! One of my favorite authors just started blogging! — Tim Sanders, author of “Love is the Killer App”, has just launched a blog: http://www.sanderssays.com . “Love is the Killer App” [...]
• 2006: My Big Brother Database and social networking sites — Yes, I keep a database on people. ;) I use an Emacs module aptly called the Big Brother Database (BBDB), which [...]
• 2006: Backlog: A great weekend — We visited Simon’s parents over the weekend to get a bit of a break from the city. His sister had moved [...]
• 2006: Okay, back on track! — Today is going to be a terrific day. =) I’m really looking forward to having a barbecue with Quinn Fung, [...]
• 2005: Maybe I’ve missed my calling… — “You could have sold me _anything,_” said the Toastmaster who evaluated my speech about a personal board of directors. Hmm. ;) I got [...]
• 2003: Securing Debian — - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ - http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Harden/
• 2003: Game —