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On This Day...

• 2012: Working on getting better at calendars — Calendars are among my weaknesses. I’ve had scheduling conflicts. I’ve missed appointments. I’ve plumb forgotten about stuff. Fortunately, people tend [...]
• 2011: Made a stuff sack for J- — W- asked me if I could make a stuff sack for J’s sleeping bag, as it turned out she was [...]
• 2011: Plans for summer: Relationships, work, gardening, biking, drawing and photography, making, and finances — Cate Huston asks for inspiration: What are you focusing on in June? Work is straightforward: Drupal web development until September, [...]
• 2010: Personal finance — So, about this influence map thing:(click for a bigger version) I’ve written about introspection and goals. Now to write about personal [...]
• 2009: Conversations with the students at Sir Wilfrid Laurier — I was supposed to give a 40-minute talk to International Baccalaureate high school students. I was planning to talk to [...]
• 2009: More gardening and sewing — We picked up a pair of planters for the porch. One of the planters is overflowing with strawberries, and I’m [...]
• 2006: Quote for the day — We only do well the things we like doing. - Colette (1873 – 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932 The ability to do [...]
• 2006: Toastmasters: Persuasion project 1 — I did my first project from the advanced manual on persuasion. Learned a lot from it, too – and not necessarily [...]
• 2006: Quote of the day — Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have [...]
• 2006: Just realized something really cool! — I just had to wake up from a terrific dream and blog this. =) And yes, it’s common sense to all [...]
• 2006: And lest you all think everything’s going pfft… — … I _did_ have a fair bit of fun getting the visualizations _just_ right. =) So I’m not completely hopeless. Random [...]
• 2006: ACK! David Crow, heart attack! — For those of you who were wondering where that trouble-maker and chief instigator went, David Crow had a heart attack [...]
• 2004: Reading list for CS1 — Loads of useful papers here! Reading List
• 2003: Alex White — http://xinai.homelinux.org
• 2003: On helping people learn — One of the things I realized in school was that answering people’s questions is not necessarily the best thing to do. [...]
• 2003: Custom problems in Emacs — Custom problems in Emacs seem to have mysteriously disappeared in last night’s CVS. Yay open source!