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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 2): Growing into blogging — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Labour Day painting — From Monday: We spent the Labour Day weekend finishing our Adirondack chairs, patching holes and dings in our hallway, and [...]
• 2009: Pick my brain — Over tea at B Espresso (111 Queen E), Daneal Charney picked my brain about collaboration, Web 2.0, Gen Y, community-building, [...]
• 2007: Driving lessons — I had my first in-car driving lesson yesterday. Looks like I still remember how to drive a manual car. Yay! =) [...]
• 2007: Sk8r boiz — We took the skateboard for a spin around the block. Or three spins, as we each had our turn. J- went [...]
• 2006: Bruce Schneier facts — Bruce Schneir facts – is this not the geekiest thing ever? Thanks to Leigh and Seth for telling me about [...]
• 2006: IT magazine publisher found stabbed dead in office — Yikes. Past MediaG8way weirdness aside (Remember Digital Pinay?), they’ve also done some pretty cool things. And even if they didn’t, no [...]
• 2006: Reaching across the ocean: sometimes you just have to make things happen — When Simon called me up to say that he was really excited about working with QSR because of their interest in Asterisk [...]
• 2006: Visualization workshop: met lots of interesting people — Will blog more after my nap. Met lots of interesting people, whom I e-mail and (maybe even) snail-mail soon. Simon Ditner, Mike [...]
• 2005: What’s this? I’ve been fooled! — My stationery envelope doesn’t have any adhesive! It’s not a lick-and-seal envelope! I’ve been fooled! I don’t have any stickers handy. =( [...]
• 2005: Planning reflection — I haven’t posted a planning reflection in a while. I thought I’d think out loud again after rereading Covey’s _First Things [...]
• 2005: Social software — Ethan Zuckerman writes about how a large volunteer effort was quickly mobilized on the Net. The software support was crude: [...]
• 2005: Personalized personal information management systems — Don Marti quotes an e-mail from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: The productivity software we have today is designed for everyone, but [...]
• 2005: Research interest: social information systems? — As I think about what I’d like to spend the next two years studying, I find myself going between personal information [...]
• 2005: MIE1407F: Engineering Psychology and Human Performance — Paul Milgram talked about the course mechanics and gave us a whirlwind tour of incredibly complex systems that are out there. [...]
• 2005: On social networks — Jared Spool of UIE is trying out LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network. Here’s what I like about LinkedIn. - Discovering people who [...]
• 2003: searching and sorting meeting — collections, please project ideas life as a teacher
• 2003: Mozilla plugin notes — linuxhelp — http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/
• 2003: Elevator realization — I’ve just had a thinko about elevator design. Instead of storing state in the elevators, why shouldn’t we store state [...]
• 2003: Intertwingularity — research — http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/199805/intertwingle.html
• 2003: quiz-a-day — cs21a, education — I’ve started the past two classes with a 5-minute quiz. This is actually a good thing. It’s short, so I can [...]
• 2003: power problem — So that’s what the beeping was – Eric’s UPS giving out. Something burst in one of the outlets earlier, so now [...]
• 2003: Lab idea: etch-a-sketc —