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On This Day...

• 2011: Geek travel: Planning outfits using matrices — It’s easy to pack for business trips: two pairs of Tilley slacks, X Tilley long-sleeved tops, other accoutrements, and I’m [...]
• 2009: Squeezing through a traffic jam — Queen Street was congested earlier, but I went right through it on my bicycle. Hooray! It would’ve taken me much [...]
• 2007: Planner and Org — As part of my research for WickedCoolEmacs, I’m exploring Org, the PIM that’s now built into Emacs 22. I like the [...]
• 2007: Finding ways to IBM — Looking at http://crazedmonkey.com/toronto-transit-map/ , it seems that I have a couple of ways to get up to 3600 Steeles Ave [...]
• 2006: Oh well, no takeaways — I was going to print neat little takeaway business cards with tips on one side and Toast I.T. club info on [...]
• 2006: Crazy idea: SMART goaltracker — Goals should be S.M.A.R.T. – specific, measurable, ardently desired, realistic, time-bound. Why don’t we already have a system that makes [...]
• 2006: Collaborative lit review — Sunir Shah has gone and built a wonderful collaborative wiki with features for lit reviews. The one for our class is at [...]
• 2006: Sunir! — So I walk in (late) for my KMD2004 class, and who do I find demonstrating something—Sunir Shah! He’s got this totally [...]
• 2006: Book: Endless Referrals, by Bob Burg — Endless Referrals Network your everyday contacts into sales by Bob Burg ISBN 0-07-146207-4 (3rd ed, paperback) Having gone through a majority of the Toronto [...]
• 2005: Finding the common vocabulary — Trust the knowledge management webloggers to come up with an interesting word-based way to measure ‘community’ in blogs. Totally awesome [...]
• 2005: Corpse Bride — Argh. Corpse Bride is a movie worth watching on the big screen, but I don’t really know anyone I can just [...]
• 2005: Get your life on — Check out getyourlifeon for fresh grad survival tips. From the website: We are young. Maybe we’re just out of college, [...]
• 2005: All the gory financial details — My mom wanted to know if she needed to make any emergency funding arrangements for me, so I sent her a [...]
• 2004: Procrastination counter? — If you keep track of the start dates, we could have procrastination counters for more fun and profit. If we have [...]
• 2004: First time personal Japanese blog post! — Check out the post labeled “emacs-wiki mode” on the linked site. <giggle> If you can’t read Japanese, run it through a [...]
• 2004: Kamakura — I had a lot of fun on my Kamakura trip thanks to the wonderful volunteer guides. One of them even spoke [...]
• 2003: Recursion example — A good recursion example is all possible sums.
• 2003: Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? — http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/08/1727257&mode=flat&tid=146&tid=99 Interesting idea: 2. Being a TA myself (CS, though), I tried the following approach – every student writes the names of [...]
• 2003: More news from the person asking my gender — <mumble mumble> From: "Romel T. Tarin" Subject: RE: Linux Expo To: "'Sacha Chua'" Date: Fri Oct 10 13:27:34 2003 +0800 yes... =) -----Original Message----- From: [...]
• 2003: Alternative teaching methods for introductory computer science — The traditional lecture-based approach to introductory computer science focuses on mastery of programming language syntax. As a result, other skills such as [...]
• 2003: Eclipse IDE tutorial — http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs410/