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On This Day...

• 2011: The joys of development with Selenium web-testing — I’ve started using the Selenium web-testing framework as part of regular development, and I like it. Selenium makes it easy [...]
• 2010: Toaster’s toasted — Our wedding vacation was a whirlwind of cooking, thanks to the talents of my middle sister Kathy and our family [...]
• 2008: Happy BlueDay to me! — Today is my one-year anniversary at IBM! Yes, I know, I’ve been on the IBM network for a couple of [...]
• 2007: First day of work — Like most (sane) graduates, I’m a little anxious about this real life thing, but I’m confident that it will work out [...]
• 2005: Bought winter boots! — After a _lot_ of comparison shopping (all along Yonge Street, from Bloor to Queen), I finally settled on two pairs of [...]
• 2004: Strange problem with Linux networking — For some reason, I sporadically have problems with Linux networking, although Windows works without any obvious problems. DHCP works. I acquire a [...]
• 2004: Nomikai — The nomikai was tons of fun! I’m looking forward to the next one. I met lots of interesting people. Michael Moyle [...]
• 2004: CHOPSTICKS — “Help me do my hair.” Palsied hands guided mine to the pair of chopsticks Mama always used to bind her hair [...]
• 2003: D-Link 650 — http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/01/05/14/1121248.shtml
• 2003: Meeting with Dr. Sarmenta re CS21B — start: 3:30 - Good design - Object-oriented principles - Files - Networking - Threads - Patterns: abstracting and applying to a different situation - Tokenizing strings UML J2ME official patterns [...]
• 2003: An insight on project defenses — I find that I approach project defenses as my opportunity to learn from the group the insights they had while working [...]
• 2003: Notes on the CS123 designs — Filed.
• 2003: Chocolate jewelry — From Martin: http://www.jcreport.com/archive/issue23/index.html check out the first article. The pic of the ring enlarges. Question is, would you wear it or eat [...]
• 2003: Teaching quote — Teaching quote: “The teacher is the needle and the disciple is the thread.” (Miyamoto Musashi)