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On This Day...

• 2011: Yay more food containers! — When we started cooking in bulk, we standardized on the Rubbermaid Takealongs Sandwich Keepers (7F58RDFCLR). The inexpensive containers were the [...]
• 2010: Blogging and conference networking tips — I promised to put together tips for networking at conferences. While sketching out my ideas, I realized that my conference [...]
• 2009: I hate flying — Long flights are the worst. New security restrictions and winter mechanical problems meant delays at the gate in the Pearson [...]
• 2008: More Drupal awesomeness: hosting with aegir — Adrian Rossouw e-mailed me about aegir, a multi-site hosting system he had helped develop. I finally got around to trying [...]
• 2008: Learning more about Drupal 6 — It’s another slow work day, so I invested some time in learning about Drupal 6. Now that I’m familiar with [...]
• 2008: Web 2.0 Inside and Outside the Enterprise: York University MBA — I’ll be giving a presentation on how enterprises use Web 2.0 inside and outside the organization to Dorit Nevo‘s MBA [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending Dec 28, 2008 — You can tell a lot about people by the way they spend their vacations. Some people escape to tropical islands [...]
• 2007: I need new glasses —
• 2007: How to use Emacs Org as a Basic Day Planner — So you want to use Org as day planner. I’ll show you the bare minimum that you need in [...]
• 2007: Dictate blind — The best way for me to dictate is without looking at the computer.  Watching the speech recognition program [...]
• 2007: Darling… —
• 2006: Wakeboarding woes — “Oh, don’t worry,” one of the wakeboarders reassured me. “I fell a hundred times before I figured it out.” Twenty-two faceplants and [...]
• 2005: RSS mess — Darn. Why are things getting double-escaped in my RSS feed? Testing, testing.
• 2005: Looking for a new web host for Adphoto — The .ph domain will be a hassle to update (maybe we should just get that delegated?), but it might be worth [...]
• 2005: Adphoto website plans — My dad wants to be able to update the pictures on the Adphoto website easily. The iPhoto Flickr export plugin looks [...]
• 2005: Mr. Yoest’s Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter — And I thought my OnLove page was weird. ;) Rule Five: It is usually understood that in order for us to get [...]
• 2005: Reflections on 2005 — This year saw me in three countries: Japan, Philippines, and Canada. On the surface level, I learned about a fair number [...]
• 2005: Top 13 questions to ask yourself — From Kevin Eikenberry, forwarded by Mom: What did I learn this year? What did I accomplish this year? Which accomplishments am I proudest [...]
• 2004: Keeping track of time with planner-timeclock and planner-timeclock-summary — Today I discovered the immense usefulness of keeping track of time. I had converted the TODO my teammate sent me into [...]