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On This Day...

• 2012: Decision review: Logitech H800 wireless headset — This is my Logitech H800 wireless headset. I bought it so that I could try dictating to my computer using [...]
• 2011: Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends — It started when we peeked through the bedroom blinds and saw our next-door neighbour cross the street to the house [...]
• 2010: Braindump: On face-to-face and online social networking (xpost) — An author wants to set up an interview with me because she’s working on a paper on what can be [...]
• 2009: Purple carrots — Last week, W- told me that he’d been thinking about what house-related tasks we might try delegating. He’s been helping [...]
• 2008: Work permit reprieve — I was relieved to find out that extending my post-graduate work permit should be straightforward. The Government of Canada had [...]
• 2007: Women — Clair Ching sent me a link to Joss Whedon’s post about the honour killing of a young woman. As sickened as [...]
• 2006: Darn, double-booked — This is what I get for not religiously putting everything into my Planner. Elie Wiesel’s talk is right after my Toronto [...]
• 2006: Basic Technical Japanese — JC Helary reminded me that I’d bought a book called “Basic Technical Japanese”, which is now sitting uselessly in a box [...]
• 2006: Too hot, too cold, just right — I sent Mark a draft of my paper, summarizing a number of research papers on innovation diffusion and technology diffusion and [...]
• 2006: Tango thoughts — I was surprised to run into Victor Hugo, Carlos, and Israel – all from Tango Passion. I felt guilty about skipping [...]
• 2006: Fireworks and hot chocolate — Jed told me about fireworks out at Ashbridge’s Bay. They were delightful. Yes, nothing like the grand spectacle of the World [...]
• 2004: Darcs wiki — Darcs wiki – http://www.ScannedInAvian.org/DarcsWiki/ E-Mail from Shae Matijs Erisson
• 2004: “Smart Glasses Detect Eye Contact” — Canadian researchers have developed a pair of sunglasses that use infrared to determine whether someone is making eye contact with the [...]
• 2003: Nearly forgot about http://www.nap.edu/ ! — http://www.nap.edu is a fantastic resource. Try http://books.nap.edu/ – I ran across it a long time ago, but haven’t been back [...]
• 2003: Web-based modules for CS21A — You know what would be nice? A way to see who else is on the same page. Or a threaded forum [...]
• 2003: Student congress — Alternative user interfaces? Human computer interaction Certification? Why do certification? JITSE Making the most of your computer science education
• 2003: Notes on taking exams — E-mail Flordeliz C. Garcia (RAMTEC) helpful notes on taking exams so that their students won’t freak out when taking the [...]
• 2003: Write Sherry Rodulfo about June 2 for IT week — Technology Awareness Week Internet and Web Technology Invited Microsoft for ASP.NET, and WSI for graphics, and Macromedia MX, and e-commerce. 1 and 1/2.
• 2003: June 19 – Sir Olpoc’s birthday — foo
• 2003: Tigris — - Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development. - You will not find [...]
• 2003: Information and Communications Technology Certification Course from RAMTEC — Here’s one of the flyers they were handing out: Introducing The First On-Line IT Programmers Course Based on the JITSE Curriculum of Japan Japan [...]