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On This Day...

• 2012: Drupal 6: Adding color support to your theme — We spent a few hours trying to figure out how to use Color to make our custom Drupal 6 theme [...]
• 2011: Thinking about personal random moment studies — John Handy Bosma (Boz) proposed a personal productivity random moment study. His goals are: Find out how he’s spending [...]
• 2011: Things to write about: questions for your blogger’s block — People often tell me they’re worried about finding enough material for their blogs. The truth is, there’s so much you [...]
• 2010: Notes from WITI: The Shy Connector — 100 people and I chatted about networking for introverts in The Shy Connector, a webinar hosted by Women in Technology, [...]
• 2010: Bug-hunting spreadsheets — There’s a certain delight in working on obscure problems. In my case, I was trying to debug an old spreadsheet [...]
• 2009: Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate — One of the reasons why I love thinking of ways to help people rock even more is that I often [...]
• 2009: DrupalCampToronto organizing notes — We had the second organizers’ meeting for DrupalCampToronto 2009 today. I started a number of Google Documents for keeping track [...]
• 2008: Weekly review – Feb 9, 2007 — I haven’t written in a while, and my fingers are starting to itch. I’ve been preoccupied. Last Thursday I learned [...]
• 2007: Snuggle — Today was just way too intense. A morning of calling, an afternoon of walking, an evening of panicking… I’m exhausted. I’m going [...]
• 2007: What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done? — When people think of scary things, they usually think of flashy stuff: sharks, heights, etc. The scariest things, however, aren’t those [...]
• 2007: Is this what a trapeze artist feels? — This is a fascinating feeling. I’m not sure if I’ve blogged it before. There’s fear, yes. I can feel the stress [...]
• 2007: Also, positive thinking means that… — … you put “Find checkbook” on your task list instead of “Look for checkbook”. ;) Little things matter. Random Emacs symbol: gnus-group-tool-bar [...]
• 2007: Found my checkbook… — … zippered into the lining of my carry-on suitcase, practically flush with the frame of the suitcase. That’s probably why I [...]
• 2007: I just have to ride out the panic… — Panic is natural. As long as I don’t act during it, I’m fine… I’ll work out a plan somehow. What’s the [...]
• 2007: Borrowed some time from my thesis… — … to scour Toronto for an apartment. I wrote down the details of more than thirty ads, called more than twenty [...]
• 2006: CookOrDie: Minestrone — Level up! Steve helped me prepare minestrone today, and I’m reasonably happy with it. =) See, I picked up the Good Food [...]
• 2004: More thoughts — Deleted: Lost secret key
• 2004: Chamberlain Fong — spectralfft@yahoo.com
• 2004: Wearable ring mouse — Jonas Meyer on wear-hard@haven.org: Does anyone have any experience with the Bosswave FinRing, out of Taiwan? It’s a little mouse that [...]
• 2004: The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code — http://www.fogcreek.com By Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 09, 2000 Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a [...]
• 2004: New story by JM — http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/stories/sleep.html
• 2004: University of Canterbury — http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/courses/postgrad/pedu.shtml Master of Science Education – M.Sc.Ed. The course of study for the degree comprises either (a) six courses and two research projects [...]