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On This Day...

• 2013: Brainstorming ways to help build the Emacs community — John Wiegley and I had lots of fun brainstorming ways to help move Emacs forward, particularly as I’m carving out [...]
• 2012: Visual metaphors: Argument — (Click on the image to view a larger version.) Different ways to visualize argument: War: conflict, opposition, fight, demolishing a flimsy [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending April 1, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Work on Rails questionnaire project for client C [X] Talk to client U [...]
• 2010: IgniteToronto video: The Shy Presenter — I’m giving up on getting the organizers to update the incorrect abstract and bio on the page, but anyway, here’s [...]
• 2010: On role models — Mel Chua’s comment about relationships and role models made me think. She’s right, you know. It was something that had [...]
• 2009: Remote presentations that rock: Challenges and opportunities of remote presentations — How are remote presentations different from in-person ones, and how can you make the most of those differences? Plan for different [...]
• 2009: Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project — Not only has my sleep cycle been thrown out of whack, but I’ve also broken out in pimples. Clearly, we can [...]
• 2007: Books, books, books — I checked out an armload of books from the Toronto Public Library today, indulging in a little fiction (ah, Regency romances [...]
• 2006: Conversations — Anthony and I went to a Korean restaurant. We had slices of beef cooked at the table. It was a great [...]
• 2006: In the thick of things — Come to think of it, my social life really is very different from, say, what I’d gotten used to in high [...]
• 2006: Brian’s birthday party — That was tons of fun, and very much worth it. =) I blocked off all evening starting from 4:30 for Brian’s [...]
• 2006: Backlog – 2006.04.01: Breakfast: Bacon and eggs — Steve deserved a break from all the hospital food, so I decided to cook him breakfast. It always takes him a [...]
• 2005: Major website revamp — I changed my website layout and added blurbs about Planner and some of my other pages. =) It’s rather cute now. [...]
• 2005: Dr. Oposa’s party — Went to Dr. Oposa’s 81st birthday party last night. I was surprised to find Jess there. Turns out Dr. Oposa’s her grandfather. [...]