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On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending August 5, 2011; thoughts on discretionary time — We had a four-day weekend: Civic Holiday on Monday, then an IBM floater holiday on Tuesday (to balance the holidays [...]
• 2010: On passion and luck — Cate Huston is an Extreme Blue intern who stumbled across her dream project at IBM. She asks: What if you don’t [...]
• 2009: Improv 101, class 3: It’s not about stuff, it’s about relationships — What would it feel like to be able to go with the flow of improvisation, to be able to find [...]
• 2009: The influence of trees, webs, and clouds — There’s the influence described in formal organizational charts. Executives influence middle managers, who influence managers, who influence front-line employees. It’s [...]
• 2008: Do what works for you; It’s not about being Gen Y, it’s about being new — Luis Suarez has just realized that being a Web 2.0 evangelist doesn’t mean getting into every new Web 2.0 tool, [...]
• 2008: Lifehacking: Switching to a rolling laptop bag — I’ve been paying attention to the preventive advice I picked up during my last session with a registered massage therapist, [...]
• 2008: Drupal, Emacs, and templates: Module update functions — Drupal’s coding conventions make it easier to hook into system behavior, but they also result in a lot of repetitive [...]
• 2007: Preparing for defense — My thesis defense is just two days away. I’ve drafted my presentation and asked my supervisor for comments. The main thing [...]
• 2006: Planning my birthday party — I’ve been drafting my invitation for my 23rd birthday party. I know, I know, I’m late. I should give people more [...]
• 2006: Not my best day ever — Two dinner parties in two days: Simon Ditner’s potluck (I brought brownies) and Pavel Zaitsev’s Russian dinner. I wish the timing could’ve [...]
• 2005: Rest of my day — I actually woke up early today: 7:30. (Okay, 7:35, really. And 7:40. Yeah, 7:40.) I had a quick bowl of oatmeal, [...]
• 2005: Wonderful day at the science centre — I had a great time exploring the Ontario Science Centre with Calum Tsang, sysad of the Interactive Media Lab. He [...]
• 2004: Called up Baryon today — Called up Baryon as promised. We talked about hair, surviving in Japan, grad school… It’s funny how people are stylized in our [...]