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On This Day...

• 2011: Upcoming decision: Considering different cellphone plans for J- — J- currently uses a prepaid cellphone with Virgin Mobile in order to coordinate with us, her mom, and her friends. [...]
• 2010: Quantified Self Toronto: Second Meetup — I went to last night’s Quantified Self Toronto meetup, a get-together for people who are interested in tracking data about [...]
• 2009: Learning about my grandmother — When I told my mom about the hooded fleece bathrobe I’d made for W-, she laughed and told me a [...]
• 2008: One of Canada’s Most Influential Women in Social Media? — I’ve been nominated as one of Canada’s Most Influential Women in Social Media in a poll run by Dave Forde, [...]
• 2008: Notes from conversations: Ushnish Sengupta, consulting — Ushnish Sengupta was interested in exploring social media consulting. He picked my brains over hot chocolate at the Bluestar Cafe. [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — What I know is nothing compared to what I will learn, and what I will learn is nothing compared to what [...]
• 2007: Keeping in touch — Today was a day for catching up with old friends. I spent an hour catching up with Clair Ching over the [...]
• 2005: Looking forward to Monday — I am _so_ looking forward to being finished with my enggpsych paper. Grumble, grumble. Humbling and annoying to think I’ve only [...]
• 2005: Another picture posted — New readers to my blog: No, this blog isn’t primarily about photos of me. It’s just that I’ve had two photo [...]
• 2004: Reflections on what I value — - I love teaching. I love getting people to understand and appreciate technology. I want to help people develop a sense [...]
• 2004: One-hour hacks — Do tell me what happened with your web development company. At the moment, I’m wondering what caused you to initiate your [...]
• 2004: Slashdot humor — From nyteroot‘s comment at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131235&cid=10961947 : 1n r3sp0ns3 t0 th1s, 1 h4v3 0nly 0n3 th1ng t0 s4y: $ [...]
• 2004: Tokyo LUG December nomikai, tentative list — - 1. Chris Sekiya - 2. Vic Thacker - 3. Stephen Turnbull - 4. Michael Moyle - 5. Sacha Chua - 6. Alberto Tomita - 7. [...]
• 2004: The one-hour hack strikes again! — http://www.adphoto.com.ph Not bad for a one-hour hack straight out of bed. Time to change clothes and eat breakfast…
• 2004: Emacs on Mac OS X — Sven Kloppenburg said: using Emacs on Macosx myself, I can tell you that emacs 21.2.1 comes with macosx. If you want a [...]
• 2004: Web site design — After seeing the quotation from the web design firm my mom’s thinking of using, I have gotten sufficiently annoyed about the [...]
• 2003: Why am I trying to learn arch again? —
• 2003: More about arch — Okay, I’ve finally created and imported planner.el into an arch repository. It certainly doesn’t seem as handy as RCS, but I [...]
• 2003: emacs channel logs — http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/emacs/
• 2003: w00t! Hacked the ground beef! — Xref: CookOrDie#11
• 2003: tla on debian — I needed to use tla add-tag *.el instead of tla add *.el.
• 2003: Midterms for CS21A — Scheduled for 2003.12.16 - Refactoring - UML - other stuff
• 2003: w00t! Wireless works! — Had to configure the encryption key. iwconfig wlan0 key xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
• 2003: Wireless — Apparently, it’s called hostap now. The 2.6 patch in hostap-source applied without a hitch. Now let’s see if it’ll compile… http://angerman.net/articles/wap/