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On This Day...

• 2011: It turns out that “I suck” moments are more negotiable than I thought — I was unpacking my bag at home before I realized I had forgotten cash at the bank. In the middle [...]
• 2010: The Exploratorium, or playgrounds for the mind — In this post about visiting San Francisco, Devin Reams wrote: We also enjoyed walking around the Marina area and visiting [...]
• 2008: Gen Y Perspective: Flexibility, Work-Life Balance, and Curb Cuts — In today’s Teach Me Teamwork seminar on managing Gen Y, Bea Fields (the author of Millennial Leaders) mentioned that many [...]
• 2007: Reading about Enterprise 2.0 — Nearly forgot to mention that Google Reader is my new favorite RSS reader and that I had a lot of [...]
• 2007: Wow. Lots of stuff done today. — I really enjoy looking back on a day and saying, “That was a day well spent.” You can do a surprising [...]
• 2007: Meet Enterprise 2.0 — Here are some great presentations on what people who use Enterprise 2.0 look like. =) Meet Charlie: What is Enterprise 2.0? A [...]
• 2007: The return on investment of social computing — Luis Suarez has another good post on Making the Business Case for Social Computing. He realized that the arguments for [...]
• 2007: Chapter outline draft: Planning your day in Emacs — The first chapter I’m working on is about planning your schedule in Emacs. Here’s my draft outline. I’m targetting 20 pages. [...]
• 2005: Cooking workshop — The cooking workshop was so much fun! Ian, Michelle, Cathryn, Mickey and I prepared Greek chicken casserole and upside-down chocolate fudge pudding [...]
• 2004: That’s odd (FurtherStudies#18) — For some reason, I can’t find the envelope full of transcripts. I also don’t have copies of my official test reports. [...]
• 2004: Whoops, mistake with the transcripts — I wondered why the registrar gave me loose transcripts. Looks like we’ll have to get a new set of signed, sealed [...]
• 2004: Darn. Missed the Tokyo Game Show — Saw the notice way too late. Shrugged it off as hey, it’s a game show… … then learned today that it’s [...]
• 2004: Furl, Spurl, and del.icio.us — Between Furl, Spurl, and del.icio.us, I prefer the del.icio.us social bookmarking service the most. I love being able to easily subscribe to all people [...]
• 2003: Onomastikon — http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/, said Martin.
• 2003: Feeling teachery — These past few days I’ve been in semi-hermit mode. I’ve just had a sudden bout of teacher-ness and… you know… I [...]
• 2003: Is Java too big for the enterprise? — Link from Miguel Paraz: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/0124227 The company I work for runs a large, high-profile web site with users all across the world and [...]
• 2003: Feedback continues. — Almost two hours to send 19 students personal mail about their short quiz earlier.
• 2003: Removed the CVS el — Emacs no longer segfaults. Yay!