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On This Day...

• 2013: An embarrassing failure is the result of a series of unfortunate decisions, and that’s a good thing — Failures can be caused by all sorts of factors, but an embarrassing failure exposes the unfortunate decisions along the way. [...]
• 2012: January 22, 2012 — Most of this weekend was taken up by schoolwork. J- had a large Math project to work on – cereal [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending January 21, 2011 — Oh boy. Between the M and S projects wrapping up, Lotusphere preparations, and general scrambling, life is going to be [...]
• 2010: Batirol, tablea, and tsokolatera – the joys of hot chocolate — Not entirely traditional, but this IKEA jug makes an adequate tsokolatera. Someday, I’m going to learn how to make tsokolate [...]
• 2009: Reblogged: Web 2.0, Sharing, and Uncertain Times — Just posted some reflections on today’s mentoring conversation. Check it out on our team blog: Conversations with a Mentor: Web [...]
• 2009: The unexpected lightness of learning — I had been invited to participate in the usability studies for Pass It Along, an IBM peer-to-peer learning system. The [...]
• 2009: When I grow up, I will have friends and strangers over for dinner — Every week for the past 30 years, I’ve hosted a Sunday dinner in my home in Paris. People, including total [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2008: More books — "I enjoyed lunch too :) Please email the titles of all of those books! They all sounded wonderful," tweeted Heidi [...]
• 2006: Sorting my clothes — I organized my under-bed drawers, dividing the tops into: red, somewhat dressy tops casual tops dressy tops everything else and the bottoms into: skirts casual bottoms slacks really-casual bottoms With [...]
• 2006: Chinese cooking and diabolo — This weekend seems to be for Graduate House socializing. The smell of rice wine and soy sauce still sticks to me, [...]
• 2004: Ink-stained hands — I have long since resigned myself to the idea that my hands will always be ink-stained after each class. Other teachers [...]
• 2004: Meeting an old semi-acquaintance — I could number the things I knew about him on one hand. He was almost a stranger, glimpsed briefly on the [...]
• 2004: Free online books update — I blogged about http://www.dhruvaraj.freeservers.com last 2003.09.25 . Just got mail from Dhruvaraj S. saying it’s now at http://www.dhruvaraj.com .
• 2004: xauth recipe — xauth extract - zero:0 | ssh crash xauth -v merge -