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On This Day...

• 2011: Dusting off my Sony Vaio U1 — Years ago, my dad gave me his Sony Vaio PCG-U1 – one of the smallest laptops around. It had an [...]
• 2010: Stuff is just stuff, and experiences are just experiences — I was browsing the featured presentations on Slideshare for design and content inspiration, and I noticed that one of the [...]
• 2009: Deeper insights into private versus public — I was on a panel with Luis Suarez, Jeannette Browning, and Bill Chamberlin about choosing the right social networking tools. [...]
• 2007: Made it across the monkey bars! — Last Friday, I successfully made it across the monkey bars! Yes, go ahead and laugh. It seems like such a simple [...]
• 2005: Planner for Eclipse? — One of the things I really love about Planner is that my blogging and task tracking tool is built into my [...]
• 2005: Personal productivity reading list — Dean Michael C. Berris commented on my blog: Great online PIM links! I’ve fallen in love with Ta-da and backpackit! :D There’s [...]
• 2005: New planner tweak: sort tasks by time — I’ve taken to tagging my tasks with times, and here’s some code to automatically sort tasks by time, status, and priority. [...]
• 2005: Notes from meeting with Stephen Perelgut, Neil Ernst and Alvin Chin — We met at Bahen to talk about the upcoming IBM CASCON workshop on “cool technologies.” Stephen gave us an idea of [...]
• 2004: ONIONS — I watched the old man examine the onions carefully. It was my first week on the job and I couldn’t help [...]
• 2003: Had dinner with Dominique, Eric and Andrei — Tried singing. Stage fright. New project: learn shamelessness. ;) Am quite amazed by fact that Andrei and Eric can… you know… [...]
• 2003: Cube — Cross-platform Quake Lite thing Not open source.
• 2003: Linuxjournal assignment — Take a look at the Linuxjournal assignment and maybe think of writing about planner
• 2003: Tell dominique — not websphere 5 for william, already downloaded. How’s article doing?
• 2003: USB mouse plus disk — This looks useful too! I wonder if it works in Linux… http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/news/4946/1/ http://www.iogear.com/products/product.php?Item=GME224M32
• 2003: Aforementioned #linuxhelp weirdness — (good karma) (person) are you a Psycologist? No. I’m a computer science geek. (person) because I’m an arrogant self-righteous bastard and [...]
• 2003: Human bingo! — I can have the freshmen do this for tomorrow! =)
• 2003: l33t people skillz — heh, openwhatever is back in #linux, and nice and humble too. so "it" worked. * Coma clears a few [...]
• 2003: CS21A array exercises ideas — (education) I’ll need to give another quiz on arrays – make sure they know how to declare, create and use arrays. They [...]
• 2003: USB Watch — http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/ That is, like, _so_ cooooool. That is, like, waaay cool.
• 2003: XGoogle? IRC search engine — http://www.xgoogle.org Ran across it while searching for Undernet #linuxhelp (http://www.xgoogle.com/details?channel=%23linuxhelp&network=222)
• 2003: Caimlas, artificial intelligence — Caimlas is thinking of working on a conversation bot that can learn. He found http://www.opencyc.org/ .
• 2003: Knuth quote — computer science, cs21a, education When I speak about computer programming as an art, I am thinking primarily of it as an [...]
• 2003: Interesting conversation on SIGCSE — education — At 23:45 -0400 9/7/03, Jeffrey Forbes wrote: >Hello all, > >For students who do most of their programming assignments >on their own computers, I [...]
• 2003: Squid access controls — http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/x591.html