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On This Day...

• 2013: Poll: How often would you like to receive e-mail updates? Also, quantifying my blog posting history — I’ve been posting practically every day for the past 3.5 years, and I write about a variety of topics. I’ve [...]
• 2012: Responsive web, responsive life — A responsive site design is one that can adapt to different screen sizes and different devices. As you resize the [...]
• 2011: Rails: Preserving test data — I’m using Cucumber for testing my Rails project. The standard practice for automated testing in Rails is to make each [...]
• 2010: Org-toodledo — I finally got around to asking my manager for permission to contribute org-toodledo as open source. Here it is. Enjoy! ;;; [...]
• 2009: Virtual assistance: Process for managing my to-read books — I read a lot. Inspired by Mel Chua’s process for books: turning stocks into flows, here’s how I can ask [...]
• 2008: The Incoming University Student’s Guide to Web 2.0 — Read extensively. The university library’s an amazing resource. Yours might come with access to online research libraries, too. Combine that [...]
• 2007: Family first — A family matter requires me to fly home. It’s never too early to practice following my priorities. When we decide that we [...]
• 2006: Mesh magic: Tara Hunt — I have big dreams. I have these thoughts I thought I was alone in. Then I found the blogosphere. I [...]
• 2006: Mesh magic: Fifteen minutes of fame — Today’s fifteen minutes of fame focused on some totally awesome social Web 2.0 orgs and people. There was Favorville, an experiment [...]
• 2006: Mesh magic: Venture capital and Web 2.0 — Mathew Ingram talks with venture capitalist and blogger Dr. Paul Kedrosky. Cute snippet from the intro: has an approach to blogging that [...]
• 2006: Mesh magic: The Future of Marketing — Stuart MacDonald talks with Steve Rubel of Edelman and Micropersuasion.com. I slipped into the session just in time to hear a few [...]
• 2006: Mesh magic: At the registration desk — I’m a paid registrant at Mesh today, but I’m volunteering at the registration desk because it’s fun greeting people and [...]
• 2006: Mesh magic: Volunteering — Volunteering was absolutely the best thing I could’ve done. Here’s most of the story: I had ignored my Web 2.0 blog [...]
• 2006: Connect — I’m also on LinkedIn and 43people. Let’s connect, share, inspire… =) Random Japanese sentence: うちの猫は台所にいます。 Our cat is in the kitchen.
• 2006: Catching up; mesh post coming soon — Day 1 of the mesh conference, and day 3 of my conference sprint. (Barcamp was last weekend.) I’m running on a [...]
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• 2003: Ernest Baello — Thought I’d look up one of my oldest friends today. From http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall02/team4/contacts.html: Ernest Baello (Project Manager & Customer Contact): (217) 898-6821 (oooh, project [...]
• 2003: debian emacs policy — Peter S Galbraith suggests (if (not (file-exists-p "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el")) (message "Package emacs-goodies-el is removed but [...]
• 2003: www.blogpulse.co —
• 2003: Woke up late today — Woke up past 7 today, am rushing off to school. Should’ve gotten out of bed when Cat was trying to wake [...]