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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 7): Learning how to write — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Monthly review: September 2010 — Last month, I wrote: September: more Idea Labs, preparations, keeping things sane We’re halfway through October already. As predicted, September was [...]
• 2009: A weekend well-spent preparing for winter — My arms are sore, my shoulders are tense, my back is stiff, and I’m basking in the satisfaction of seeing [...]
• 2007: LEGO — I had a lot of fun at the rtlToronto LEGO contest today. All these grown-ups (and one kid) had built robots [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — I had *awesome* conversations again this week. I greatly enjoyed meeting Jennifer Dodd, Jamie McQuay, and Hartwell Fong at Farcoast [...]
• 2007: Notes from Mentors: Technology evangelism — Here are notes from a conversation I had with Ian Irving on technology evangelism. Ian Irving had plenty of stories to [...]
• 2007: How to make a complete map of every thought you think — Michael Nielsen is also responsible for telling me about How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think, [...]
• 2007: Happiness evangelist — Michael Nielsen pointed me to The Happiness Project, a terrific blog/project by Gretchen Rubin. Last August, Gretchen realized that she wasn’t [...]
• 2006: Bus updates for Hack Night — FYI, the YRT changed their bus routes back in April – the #1 doesn’t go to Finch anymore, it stops at [...]
• 2006: Wow. — Wow. I’m still… Simon told me the story of his first project. There is *no* way I can do it justice. If you [...]
• 2005: Only solve the problems you need to solve — James Gosling says, “Only solve the problems you need to solve.” My research supervisor told me that my only mission is [...]
• 2005: Take a risk today — Via McGee’s Musings, from Jason Womack: Do one brave thing today… then run like hell!
• 2005: Bloglines keyboard shortcuts — I totally, totally love Bloglines’ keyboard shortcuts. That tiny addition just made web-based RSS reading _so_ much easier for me. [...]
• 2004: Sacha and the art of tech blogging — Published on Infotech. I’m a geek girl. Hear me roar! <laugh> Sacha%20and%20the%20art%20of%20tech%20blogging%20-%20INQ7.net
• 2004: Encoding — Thanks to people on the Japanese mailing lists, I’ve learned that iso-2022-jp should be used for mail and news because it [...]
• 2004: Intermittent network problems — My Linux computer’s networking is acting up. I can acquire an IP through DHCP, but the gateway occasionally won’t let me [...]
• 2004: Chatted with Martin Gomez — Had a lot of fun talking to Martin Gomez about wanting to join the Media Lab. I told him about _personal_ [...]
• 2004: Continuation of OJT lecture — During the part 1 session that I gave you, the importance of establishing the training plan as well as the points [...]
• 2004: Afternoon lecture for your OJT — So starting from next week we will be receiving the OJT from your host companies. As I said before, Japanese companies [...]
• 2003: Wearable interfaces — http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3090392.stm
• 2003: We’re in! — Subject: RE: NCITE abstract: Alternative teaching methods in introductory computer science education Dear Sacha, Thank you for your submission. We look forward to [...]
• 2003: Independent keyboards on Linux — From the XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org): You can have multiple independent graphic cards and multiple independent mouses, but in order for multiple users [...]
• 2003: Happy birthday, Richi! — Your birthday is just like any other day, except that so and so many years ago, you were born. It’s a pretty [...]