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On This Day...

• 2013: Weekly review: Week ending March 1, 2013 — Lots of cooking this week! I spent the weekend making nine different banchan recipes, and it really paid off in [...]
• 2012: Visual book notes: 6 Secrets to Startup Success — (Click on the image to see a larger version, which could be good for reading my teeny-tiny handwriting. If you [...]
• 2010: Thoughts on preparing an Ignite-style presentation — Creativity loves constraints, and the Ignite style of presentations has lots of constraints. Your speech has to fit into five [...]
• 2009: Want to grow as a speaker? Look for inspiration! — In a previous reflection on presentation and public speaking, I mentioned how I’m looking for inspiring role models who can [...]
• 2008: Weekly review – week ending March 2, 2008 — I feel a little flushed today, and I’ve been sniffling all weekend. After I finish this blog post, I’m going [...]
• 2008: Internet experiment #2: Ordering clothes – success! — There are some things that most people would never think of buying from the Internet because they require such a [...]
• 2006: Income tax info — From the Graduate Students Union digest: Your T2202A (the tuition fee receipt from U of T) is not mailed out – [...]
• 2006: Working with LEGO — Thanks to Calum Tsang, I’ve been able to play around with the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit without actually having to mess [...]
• 2006: One-man Linux army — My boyfriend is a one-man Linux army. While all the rest of the people talk about promoting Linux, he actually [...]
• 2004: Why am I interested in short stories? — Flash Art Who can paint summer in fifty brushstrokes and three colors? Brushes and palettes clattered throughout the warehouse, artists bent on [...]
• 2004: LEO — http://leo.sourceforge.net I think this is a pretty cool idea, but I want it inside Emacs, not as an external application – not [...]
• 2004: CS21B meeting — - Design patterns - Make your own questions: 2 questions, 10 points - Composite (shapes), Observer (listeners), Strategy (sorting), Decorator (files) Procedure for [...]
• 2004: NetHack progress — Another new character. Now level 11 and camping near an altar. Have picked up a couple of magic markers, blessed two [...]