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On This Day...

• 2011: Drupal, HTML Purifier, and embedding IFRAMES from YouTube — I know, I know. I shouldn’t allow IFRAMEs at all. But the client’s prospective users were really excited about images [...]
• 2010: Long weekend reflections — Long weekends? We don’t pack our bags and travel, or kick our feet up and chill out at our (non-existent) [...]
• 2009: In-jokes and shared experiences — W- helped me put together some wire shelves for plants. One of the rods was deformed, so he brought out [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending August 2, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Do some Facebook strategy consulting Find ways to recognize the contributions people had made to the idea lab [...]
• 2008: Drupal shell: quickly evaluating PHP statements in a Drupal context — I often find myself needing to variable_set something temporarily, just to try things out. The drush module provides a command-line [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — This week Send thesis draft to people, really. Done. Check paperwork requirements for post-graduate work permit and start compiling them. Started Revise CASCON paper. Done. Do one [...]
• 2007: Moving back to PCFinancial — I think I’ll move back to PCFinancial for my banking. I don’t think I’ll need any financial statements for my future [...]
• 2005: Changing patterns of computing — I managed to leave my laptop at home today! =) That forced me to be productive all day. See how many [...]
• 2005: On mailing lists — I find it a bit strange that people here like broadcasting their messages by putting everyone in To: or Cc:. I [...]
• 2003: Emacs macros — Keyboard macros in Emacs allow me to easily generate the gallery from the pipe-separated values I exported from Gnumeric. Viva open [...]
• 2003: RSS feed — I think it should be relatively easy to publish an RSS feed of the links from my planner wiki…
• 2003: Plans — I’m going to try to move my plans up by a year. I suspect I’ll learn more by going to graduate [...]
• 2003: Experts — I think I’ve a way to deal with my large CS123 class: topic experts. Each group has experts in charge of [...]
• 2003: Teaching — Holding up. Doing remarkably well, in fact – probably because I’m too busy to do anything else. The sheer magnitude of [...]
• 2003: Communication — Considering that I tend to text long messages in bursts, it might actually make more sense for me to stay at [...]
• 2003: Redesign — Using objects in the beginning - graphics right away; bounds and draw promotes object reuse - using objects - implementing methods - expressions - if - loops - [...]
• 2003: http://www.geocities.com/fanny11sy/featured-projects —
• 2003: JPCS conference — end of august, one way of reviving contact with JPCS. Need a venue for a seminar for the gathering of all [...]
• 2003: Java patterns — http://www.anupriyo.com/oopfm.shtml