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On This Day...

• 2013: Web app idea: Stamp mix calculator — I’ve resolved to send more paper letters. I also have an odd mix of stamps that I want to use [...]
• 2013: Sketching twelve business ideas — In Running Lean, Ash Maurya recommends that you document your “Plan A”s – sketch out many possible businesses and business [...]
• 2012: CSS theming, magnification, and foot pedals — I’m working on the stylesheets for a site, which means lots of fiddly little changes. I decided to make [...]
• 2011: Momentum and holidays — Monday: I don’t do “relaxing holidays” very well. My idea of a perfect holiday is one where I’m all wrung [...]
• 2010: Thinking out loud: Mapping what I know — I want to map what I know. I want to make what I know more findable. The reverse-chronological order of blog [...]
• 2009: There are no words to describe the geeky awesomeness of this — Update: Turns out the guy was lipsynching Moosebutter, but it’s still awesome! (found it on Jeff Waugh‘s blog while reading his [...]
• 2009: Annual letter: the numbers — I sent out 205 hand-personalized yearly updates in my initial set of holiday greetings. I’ve received 60 replies so far, [...]
• 2009: Ideas for improving my website — Add a section about my speaking topics and events Switch to Drupal and customize it Restore the Feedburner widget that shows how [...]
• 2009: Ideas for becoming a better networker — Load contact information onto my iPod Touch in a way that I can easily search Explore using a system like SugarCRM Add [...]
• 2006: Indexing pictures — Adphoto is an advertising photography and digital imaging company. My parents established it 33 years ago. It’s Good Stuff. We’d like to develop [...]
• 2005: Excellent newbie guide for Planner — Clair Ching has posted a wonderful guide to Planner, complete with screenshots. Check out the following links: - http://eclair.bizhat.com/emacs/plannernewbie.html - http://eclair.bizhat.com/emacs/plannerscreen1.html - http://eclair.bizhat.com/emacs/plannerscreen2.html On Technorati: [...]
• 2005: So far: contrast with strangeness — GK Chesterton seems a little too weirded out by the East. I suppose ‘Orientals’ really were strange and unfamiliar, almost alien, [...]