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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending July 6, 2012 — Lots of things not crossed out on my to-do list, but I focused on doing other things instead. We spent [...]
• 2011: In an imperfect world — Quinn wanted to know how I respond to systemic injustice, wicked problems, and other things that are so far beyond [...]
• 2010: Monthly review: June 2010 — June was a great month for building. I built my first piece of furniture, a folding Adirondack chair I built [...]
• 2007: Week in review — This week’s main accomplishment was the compilation of my first draft, which is currently being reviewed by my supervisor. While waiting [...]
• 2006: Tech goals — Every so often, I like setting myself tech goals. My first major open source tech goal was to hack the iPaq, [...]
• 2006: Productive week! — I’ve made a lot of progress on nailing down my research topic. Yes, yes, I know, I keep saying that, but [...]
• 2006: I’m Somebody! — From Diary of a Somebody, in the Guardian (a UK newspaper): “”The best bloggers use their blogs as a tool to [...]
• 2006: Graduate House Party — We celebrated Graduate House’s 6th anniversary yesterday with a big party. Good excuse to wear the red dress my mom gave [...]
• 2006: Imagining the future — Wow. Don Marti has career advice for me. Wow. Sacha, saying that you don’t want to be a programmer in the 21st [...]
• 2005: The only party with homework — A bon voyage party or despedida is usually a light, happy affair. Not this despedida. This one comes with homework. For [...]
• 2004: Spam! — The Monty Python article on Slashdot must’ve started me on a SPAM kick. Bought myself a tin of SPAM and had [...]
• 2004: Marking up note headlines with a permalink — (defun sacha/planner-markup-note () "Replace note with marked-up span." (let ((id (concat [...]
• 2004: “Cyber Crumbs for Successful Aging With Vision Loss” — Researchers at the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center have collaborated with Charmed Technology to develop Cyber Crumbs, an electronic system [...]
• 2003: Met Dean last night — Had a lot of fun chatting with Dean Michael Berris last night – ACM problems, training, PLUG and Linux. (All you PLUG [...]