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On This Day...

• 2011: Strawberry rhubarb baking — Okay, I was wrong. I guess it’s baking season all year round. The strawberries from the garden are lovely, red and [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending June 25, 2011 — From last week’s presentation Work [X] Smooth out session creation form for project M [-] Work on Generation C [...]
• 2010: Editing audio and embedding it into a MS Powerpoint file — Jade asked me for help in converting a CEO interview from 51 MB (it was an AVI!) to something more [...]
• 2006: What I want to do with my life: tell stories — In the process of helping a friend get some insights from David Allen’s book on Getting Things Done, I found myself [...]
• 2006: Ego surfing — http://www.egosurf.org Have fun. ;) Thanks to Gabriel Mansour for the link! Random Japanese sentence: その少年たちはかわいい猫と一緒に２人きりで暮らしていた。 The two boys lived alone with a lovely cat.
• 2006: Listening — I asked my mom how to converse with people who have far more experience than I do. She said, “Brilliant people [...]
• 2006: Congrats to Hrbs and Krisette! — Congratulations to Hrbs and Krisette on their nuptials. =) My friends have been telling me all about it, including how my [...]
• 2006: What’s the value proposition of a student? — One of the reasons why I’ve never quite felt comfortable in networking-focused events is that the value proposition of a student is [...]
• 2006: A taste of politics — Not content with experiencing Canada’s medical system, I also dipped my toes into its political system. Simon told me that the [...]
• 2006: Blog visualizations — We Feel Fine visualizes people’s moods through dots, pictures, and text. Good stuff. Link from Alex Schroeder. Random Japanese sentence: その猫は魚を食べようと魚の入った缶をひっくり返した。 The [...]
• 2006: Epiphanies — Sometimes it takes an unexpected conversation to clarify certain things. Today’s conversation was informative and inspiring. There’s _so_ much for me to [...]
• 2004: Class today: Mixed (TeachingReflections) — CS21A: Both the CS and MIS classes appreciated having unit tests that thoroughly checked their work. Almost everyone quickly got the [...]