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On This Day...

• 2012: High school application season — J- is working on her application for Western Tech’s CyberArts specialized high school program. She’s been organizing her portfolio and [...]
• 2011: Pre-conference networking tips for the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference — Instructional Technology Strategies Conference: The Shy Connector’s Guide to Getting Ready for Conference Awesomeness View more presentations from Sacha Chua. This [...]
• 2010: From the book bag — I love reading. Love love love love. Here are a few more books: Fight For Your Money: How to Stop [...]
• 2009: Also: a whole slew of talks and events! — My session on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment has been accepted for DrupalCon 2009, hooray! Thanks! This is great! And handy, [...]
• 2009: Making things up — So today, I contributed in some small way to the development of an Enterprise 2.0 capability maturity model. We’ll put [...]
• 2008: Windows Live Writer and blogging — You might have noticed that I haven’t written much about Emacs lately. I confess: I’d been distracted by the dark [...]
• 2006: Wild on winter — The free fireworks show at Nathan Phillips Square was totally awesome, and dragging friends out there was a terrific idea. Thanks [...]
• 2005: Business idea! =) — I’ve never seen a cybercafe that made it easy for people to study without getting distracted by games or other people [...]
• 2005: Nifty Japanese stuff: Kakasi — Kakasi is an external utility for converting Japanese text between coding systems. It can also add furigana after kanji or convert a [...]
• 2005: ETIQUETTE — 55 words — “Out to in,” she said earlier; my silent mantra as I contemplated the bewildering array before me. Chose the outermost. Her parents [...]
• 2005: THE GAMES KIDS PLAY — a 55er — The boy winked before dropping a black beetle on a girl, who screamed and whirled around to smack him. He dodged [...]
• 2004: Functional decomposition and logic — Students found it much easier to work with methods and parameters when doing programming exercises. Also, ASCII drawing exercises drew their attention. [...]