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On This Day...

• 2012: Meetup sketchnotes: The Publishing Side of WordPress, Andy McIlwain — (Click on the image to view a larger version.) At today’s WordPress Toronto meetup, Andy McIlwain shared tips on brainstorming, scheduling, [...]
• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending March 9, 2012 — Third week of being on my own, and first week on this consulting engagement. I’m pleasantly surprised at how much [...]
• 2011: Trying MemoLane (social timeline) — Trying MemoLane on David Ing’s recommendation. It organizes blog posts, Twitter posts, Facebook entries, and other social information into a [...]
• 2010: Thinking about what I want to do with IBM — It’s almost time to make my personal business commitments. It’s a great time to think about what I want to [...]
• 2009: Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk — From 3 PM to 5 PM on March 14 (Saturday), I’ll be giving a talk at the Toronto College of [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending March 8, 2009 — From last week: DrupalCon 2009 in Washington! Gave a talk on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment to approximately 300 people, and [...]
• 2009: Okay, even more impressed by Timebridge — I was happy with AgreeADate’s interface for calendar management, and now I’m even happier with TimeBridge. I like how TimeBridge [...]
• 2006: Renaissance dance — Whee! We performed the Branles Pinagay, Washerwoman and Charlotte at a Renaissance conference. Wearing a hoop skirt was _so_ much fun. Seriously, [...]
• 2006: Women in technology — I volunteered at the Women in Technology workshop on webpage authoring this morning. Overall, it was a great event. The girls [...]
• 2006: Mending my costume — I stayed up late last night mending my costume for the Renaissance dance performance later. I had a lot of fun [...]
• 2004: Planner tasks from notes — Planner tasks from notes should update the notes page that they link to while maintaining the special links. This means that planner-jump-to-linked-task [...]
• 2004: Ah, I have an old version of httpd.el — I need a newer version from http://www.chez.com/emarsden/downloads/ if I want to try this. I should also get johnw’s httpd-serve. ../../notebook/emacs/httpd.el
• 2004: ASTI Embedded Systems Group looking for interns — The Embedded Systems Group of the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI-DOST) is looking for highly motivated techie undergrads for it’s summer [...]
• 2004: Template for CS21A project defense — - How can we install and play your game? - What problems did you encounter programming the game, and how did [...]
• 2004: On snarfing Outlook schedule entries — As we now mostly use ~/.diary for our schedule entries, Outlook schedule import is not PlannerMode‘s problem any more. ;) It [...]
• 2004: Should emacs-wiki links be easily editable? — With the recent addition of `emacs-wiki-link-escape’ and `emacs-wiki-link-unescape’, links are now unescaped before displaying. This makes them uneditable. People probably shouldn’t be [...]
• 2003: got most of the images out — Darn Photoshop file confuses the heck out of GIMP, so I had to work on the Mac downstairs. Still, I discovered [...]
• 2003: adphoto website — First, that splash page has got to go.
• 2003: testing my resolve — We are testing my resolve to provide neat time-stamped and summarized journal entries. It’s hard to do so – I feel [...]