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On This Day...

• 2011: The flow of opportunities in a large company — Henry Will asked me how I got to work on such interesting projects. What worked particularly well: blogs? presentations? networking? [...]
• 2010: Exponential awesomeness —   @smeech I recently built an entire workshop around Sacha Chua‘s Teacher’s Guide to Web 2.0: http://ow.ly/160X0 Watch/Do/Teach was our mantra @sachac [...]
• 2009: Drupal in the trenches: AJAX history makes my brain hurt — Many websites use asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) to provide all sorts of whizbang improvements, such as smooth interaction without [...]
• 2008: New blog design — Well, it’s still really the Networker-10 theme underneath, but I’ve stripped away a lot of the CSS that made my [...]
• 2008: Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online — | View | Upload your own Do you want to get more people you know to read your blog, connect [...]
• 2008: Book: Success Built to Last — In Success Built to Last (Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson), you’ll learn that passion is essential to lasting [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending May 25, 2008 — This week was mostly about working on Drupal code. =) Finding my groove! I’ve also been working on my book. It’s [...]
• 2008: Getting through the plateau of mediocrity; Picking up the idioms — This week, I discovered–rediscovered?–something I love about programming and broke through something that had been frustrating me for a while. [...]
• 2007: Pinball — I’ve always been fascinated by the flashing lights and mechanical contraptions of pinball machines, so it was with great delight that [...]
• 2007: Driving me crazy — The acrid smell of burnt rubber filled the driveway of our Alabang house, testimony to the difficulties I was having with [...]
• 2007: Exercise — We sometimes do high-five pushups during krav maga exercise/self-defense classes. I haven’t gone in a while, but feeling an itch to do [...]
• 2004: “Europe’s Semantic Web Projects Start to Mesh” — The inaugural European Semantic Web Symposium held in Crete brought together international experts and showcased how semantic Web technology has moved from [...]