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On This Day...

• 2012: Backyard updates: New shed, garden happiness — After seeing me lug my tank of a bicycle up and down six steps all spring and summer, W- decided [...]
• 2011: Decision: Piano lessons? — My last piano lesson is on Thursday, so I’m thinking about whether or not to sign up for more lessons, [...]
• 2010: Sample code for allowing drag-and-drop of Notes/Domino documents (including email) to a table in a plugin — Because I had to piece this together from examples on the Internet, and probably other people do too: Transfer[] transferArray = [...]
• 2009: My life as a 25-year-old — I’ll be turning 26 on Wednesday, and I thought I’d review the past year. I wrote a Ruby program to [...]
• 2009: Food and shelter, health, love, skill, meaning — W- and I are on our very first staycation. J- will be with us for two weeks, so he figured [...]
• 2006: Balancing the day — I’ve set aside Wednesdays for catching my breath just in case my weekends are too full, as they tend to be. [...]
• 2006: May you live in interesting times — Gabriel Mansour just found out how dangerous it is to not have an exciting story when people ak you about [...]
• 2006: Book: Lifeskills: 8 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships, Communicate More Clearly, Improve Your Health — The book goes into interesting detail about the neurological changes that happen when people get lots of tender loving care. =) [...]
• 2006: Book: The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One — Worth reading! The Renaissance Soul gives down-to-earth advice for people who thrive on variety and challenges in a number of deep [...]
• 2006: CookOrDie last Saturday: Decadent Dessert party — I confess: I threw a dessert party just to have an excuse to bake more brownies. You see, I’m a social chocolate [...]
• 2006: Living life online — People often find the public nature of my blog remarkable. They boggle at the idea that I put my task list [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: Kristin ? — Kristin talked about how, if you were stuck on something, there was often the assumption that it was because you were [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: Sticky stickers — Amber MacArthur took a break during the Social Tech Brewing panel to call attention to the sticker on my laptop and [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: Leesa Barnes — Leesa Barnes asked us to reflect on the day(s) that we almost quit technology. She shared her experience in 2004 at [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: Hong Zhu — Hong Zhu shared some results of her research into the ways that women from non-traditional backgrounds enter the IT sector. Most [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: Cathy Reed and ISisters — Cathy Reed spoke about mentoring through ISisters. She spent ten years as an educational software trainer and consultant, eventually tiring of the mobile [...]
• 2005: Lessons learned: August 1 – August 7 — People like Tita Sol, her family and friends inspire me. It’s so nice to hear people refer to the Philippines as [...]
• 2005: Survived my first Toastmasters speech! — I survived the ice breaker! I had drafted talks for all sorts of things: lifehacking, the Philippines, even the weather. None of [...]