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On This Day...

• 2012: Monthly review: September 2012 — Last month, I wrote: In September, I’m looking forward to spending time with my parents, sister, and brother-in-law; sharing lots of [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: Small Business Forum [Enterprise Toronto] — Click on the images to see larger versions. Enjoy! Keynote: Dani Reiss, Canada Goose E-commerce in Canada – Drew Green The Power of [...]
• 2011: Monthly review: September 2011 — As predicted, September was a month of preparation. Work projects winding down and starting up; little things to take care [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending October 17, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Organize Idea Labs: Support planning for upcoming Idea Lab [X] Build Connections Toolkit: Build requested [...]
• 2007: Learning — I really do need seven or eight hours of sleep. Otherwise I get a little twitchy. I still managed to be [...]
• 2006: CAS Dublin — The CAS Dublin team linked up through videoconferencing. The speaker highlighted four key fields: high performance computing, software engineering, visualization, and computational [...]
• 2006: Technical co-chairs — Eleni and Hakan joked a bit about their ethnic origins (Greek and Turkish), gave a few statistics for paper submissions, and [...]
• 2006: Address from Christian Couturier, NRC — Christian Couturier spoke about the importance of ICT and rattled off a number of areas that would not be possible without [...]
• 2006: Address from Martin Wildberger — Martin Wildberger opened by reexamining IBM’s motto, “Innovation that matters”. One of the key things we struggle with is making sure [...]
• 2006: Waiting for the keynote — I am seated front and center for the CASCON keynote, having decided to run off my laptop battery so that I [...]
• 2005: Another thing I noticed… — We totally dropped this aspect of the talk. 11:40-12:00 Discussion of personal networking tools such as LinkedIn and Friendster, Classmates, etc. Pity. [...]
• 2005: Toastmasters and speaking at technical conferences — Being a Toastmaster has disadvantages after all. I now really, really hate it when I give a speech that’s nowhere near good [...]
• 2005: Hacking for kids — O’Reilly’s looking for someone to write a book on hacking for kids. I’m all for it. I think more kids [...]
• 2004: .LRN consortium — [Slightly edited — KJC] SOURCE Linux Weekly News URL http://lwn.net/Articles/106277/ .LRN ('DOT-LEARN') [...]
• 2004: Today was wonderful! — I woke up late. Meep. It’s my fault Ranulf didn’t get to go to the sword museum or the flea market, [...]
• 2004: Keyword retrieval — Sim Gamboa III said: Side note: I am not remembering actually any URLs of these blogs, all I do is just fire [...]