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On This Day...

• 2012: Sketchnotes: ENT101: Value Proposition–Joe Wilson — This talk is part of the free MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series (webcast and in-person session every Wednesday). Feel free to [...]
• 2011: Visualization resources — One of my coworkers asked me if I knew interesting examples of visualizations. I mentioned quite a few sites and [...]
• 2010: The story of the shoes at our wedding; also, wedding pictures — Here are some of the wedding pictures: Wedding pictures People found the shoes we wore remarkable, so let me [...]
• 2009: Made a sofa wrap! — In preparation for Neko’s arrival (and to protect W-’s leather couch from the adventures of soon-to-be-three cats), we decided to [...]
• 2007: Emacs in the news — I am not happy. Well, mock-unhappy. I’m fine, but mock-peeved. The December 2007 issue of the Linux Journal has an article [...]
• 2006: Seven pages, double-spaced — That’s what my previous blog posts and this morning’s list of actors come to: seven pages, double-spaced. Add another page for [...]
• 2006: Back to KMD2004: competitive forces — (This is not even a draft – more like table-napkin scribblings for my article for a class I’m taking) Although open [...]
• 2006: There’s a reason why I learned Japanese — … and if only to drop in on blogs like this and say hi, those six months were worth it! <giggle> http://d.hatena.ne.jp/KotoriKoToriko/20061103/p3 Random [...]
• 2006: Evangelism — Taking a break from my KMD2004 cramming to post this cautionary note from an IBM evangelist (see, they do exist): [...]
• 2006: Strengthening their network — (This is not even a draft – more like table-napkin scribblings for my article for a class I’m taking) Developers who [...]
• 2006: Indirect benefits of working on open source — (This is not even a draft – more like table-napkin scribblings for my article for a class I’m taking) Working on [...]
• 2006: Open source acting on developers — (This is not even a draft – more like table-napkin scribblings for my article for a class I’m taking) So how [...]
• 2006: Blogging away my writer’s block — It is often helpful to think out loud on my blog, where I can be more informal and less structured. =) [...]
• 2005: Sometimes it’s not just about the jobs you create — Year to Success had this inspiring thought: Success is creating jobs and opportunity. Gates’ company, Microsoft, employs more than 50,000 people [...]
• 2004: Started on the Debian new maintainer application process… — Debian%20–%20Debian%20New%20Maintainer%20-%20Applicant%20Status
• 2004: My effect on people ;) — sachac: seems like you and clair have been getting along... sachac: i knew it the moment she started talking [...]
• 2004: TLUG meeting information — Date November 13th, 2004 (Saturday) Time 14:00-16:30 (doors open 13:30) At Ubiquitous Business Technology meeting room, 3-42-5 Hongo, Boa Building 2F,Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 map TLUG%20MEETINGS
• 2004: How to use remember-planner — How do you file your notes under specific topics? Like all your short stories are under short stories, right? How does [...]
• 2004: Really adorable cat! — ../pics/japan/320×240-20041108-164128.jpg We saw this really, really adorable cat on the street. She was so friendly and well-behaved… <melt> Made me miss Neko [...]
• 2004: Happy birthday, Diane! — Happy birthday to a very special girl friend. =) ../personal/20041108-diane-birthday.wav
• 2004: Necessity is the mother of invention — I love the Internet. I really, really do. I spent the last hour talking to my family through Skype, a free-as-in-beer-but-not-speech Internet telephony [...]
• 2003: Teaching and learning: a personal journey — http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/457382.html
• 2003: BlueJ resources — - http://www.rdv.vslib.cz/skodak/en/bluej/draw_tutorial/index.html - http://www.sleepinggiantsoftware.com/FGJ/tutorials.htm: This is actually pretty cool, as it explains dependencies. I think I’ll use it as a starting [...]
• 2003: BlueJ resources — - http://www.rdv.vslib.cz/skodak/en/bluej/draw_tutorial/index.html - http://www.sleepinggiantsoftware.com/FGJ/tutorials.htm: This is actually pretty cool, as it explains dependencies. I think I’ll use it as a starting [...]
• 2003: BlueJ resources — - http://www.rdv.vslib.cz/skodak/en/bluej/draw_tutorial/index.html - http://www.sleepinggiantsoftware.com/FGJ/tutorials.htm: This is actually pretty cool, as it explains dependencies. I think I’ll use it as a starting [...]
• 2003: Further thoughts on BlueJ and Beanshell — I think BlueJ suits my needs more – it allows people to evaluate expressions easily, too – but I’ll need to [...]
• 2003: Java interpreters — Miguel Paraz saw my TODO on finding a Java interpreter and he pointed me to Beanshell. I’ve been thinking about using a Java [...]
• 2003: “The Many Shapes of Tomorrow’s PC” — PCs have shrunk in size and grown in power, but their architecture and design methodology is relatively unchanged, as is their chief [...]
• 2003: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel — http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949
• 2003: “It Only Looks Like Child’s Play” — MIT researcher Hiroshi Ishii has long explored alternate ways for people to view and manipulate data that offer more flexibility and simplicity [...]
• 2003: “Charity Challenges Programmers to Code for Society” — The nonprofit mySociety.org recently launched an initiative to fund low-cost, socially beneficial IT projects that operate over electronic networks. The organization [...]