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On This Day...

• 2011: Geek travel update: Mostly as planned — I planned my packing for the Oct 5 – Oct 15 trip to the Philippines using several matrices. Life worked [...]
• 2010: Thinking about getting better at writing — Photo (c) 2009 Markus Rodder – Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives Licence 2.0 I want to become a more [...]
• 2009: Happy Bee-Day to me! — I recently celebrated my two-year anniversary with IBM. This is what I posted on my internal blog on October 16, [...]
• 2006: mencoder rocks for editing movies — I used my Sony Cybershot digital camera to take a video of my presentation at Democamp last night. The file weighed in [...]
• 2006: Whoops, a little too hasty with the rm there — I accidentally deleted the second half of my workshop recording. Which is a pity, as it turns out you can get [...]
• 2006: I rock! Mail back online — Stymied by the sudden breakage in my mail setup, I racked my brain for another way to get to the mail [...]
• 2006: Postfix TLS problems — It looks like my mail authentication has very quietly broken behind the scenes. I’ve been using SSH tunnel to get out [...]
• 2006: 10 rules for staying young — Via Quinn, who got it from Richard, who got it from Dave Pollard, George Carlin’s 10 rules for Staying Young: Throw [...]
• 2006: Awww, good karma — You are really becoming an great speaker ;) btw, I was hanging around the back and overheard people asking if you [...]
• 2006: Not among strangers — It’s amazing, looking out over a crowd of some 70 people and realizing that very few of them are strangers. It [...]
• 2006: Terrible at remembering names? — Check out this teacher-oriented article What’s Your Name Again? by Mary !McKinney. It starts: “I’m terrible at names,” complained my friend [...]
• 2006: Democamp a blast! Blew their brains to bits — I set out to geek the heck out of Toronto’s hippest geeks, and I did. I showed them Emacs as they’d [...]
• 2005: Aha! moment — 43 Emacsen — feel free to steal this idea! =) — Feel free to Make This Happen, or get in touch with me if you want to hack on this with a [...]
• 2005: In the arms of a stranger — On a whim, I decided to drop by the tango class at the International Student Centre. Although I’d never danced the [...]
• 2005: Getting along with other geeks — It’s so much fun to hang out with other geeks. (Yes, Marcelle, that includes you. ;) ) Diane Gonzales asks: how do [...]
• 2005: Let other people help — Said by Benjamin Franklin, quoted by Michael Motta, blogged by Seth Godin: “He that has once done you a kindness will [...]
• 2003: Ack! No keys! — I have no idea where my keys are. Okay, last time I remember them – I was taking them off in [...]
• 2003: Equation — -4*c^3*d^2*e^2 - 27*d^4*e^2 + 16*c^4*e^3 + 144*c*d^2*e^3 - 128*c^2*e^4 + 256*e^5 + 16*c^3*d^3*f + 108*d^5*f - 72*c^4*d*e*f - 630*c*d^3*e*f + [...]
• 2003: Encyclopedia of Stupid Languages at http://www.kraml.at/stupid/ — “You think Perl is hard to read? You think Pascal is restrictive to the point of uselessness? You ain’t seen nothin [...]