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On This Day...

• 2011: Learning browser-based testing with Selenium — I want to get better at testing my applications so that clients and end-users run into fewer bugs. I’m learning [...]
• 2009: Finding the sweet spot — Dave Pollard shared this excellent diagram for finding the sweet spot for what you want to do in life. He [...]
• 2009: How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts? — “How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts?” asked Khalid, whom I met while I was active in Toastmasters. [...]
• 2008: Week ending Oct 5 — Accomplishments: Created saved searches/alerts module for Drupal-based project Prepared Gen Y banking scenarios for an upcoming client workshop Connected lots of dots Attended WordCampToronto, [...]
• 2008: Sewing: Wool jumper, blazer — (blazer not pictured). This is the jumper I made following Simplicity 4097. I also made a blazer from the pattern. [...]
• 2008: My blog should be a little bit faster now — I picked up a lot of ideas from this weekend’s WordCampToronto, and I’m looking forward to doing a front-page redesign [...]
• 2007: Remembering to Org and Planner — Most of my notes are in Emacs Planner. Handy commands like M-x remember help me quickly take notes and write down [...]
• 2007: Emacs multi-tty is sweet — The multiple-terminal support in Emacs 23 (CVS) means that I can leave my main Emacs session running on my laptop, connect [...]
• 2007: Very odd – caring about the nitty-gritty — While reviewing the volunteer application form for a charity that I’m thinking of supporting, I grew uncomfortable with the confidentiality agreement. In [...]
• 2006: Rotman School of Management: Nexus for non-profits — Ushnish Sengupta told me about Nexus, the Rotman School of Management’s initiative for providing low-cost services to non-profit organizations. Already in its second [...]
• 2006: Clearing e-mail clutter — I’ve set almost all of my Yahoogroups mailing lists on Special Notice only to curb my inbox overload. I’ll reenable them [...]
• 2005: Aha! That’s it! That’s my thing! Research as blogging — I’ve been struggling to figure out exactly how graduate school and my courses fit into The Great Scheme of Things, and [...]
• 2005: Google tech talk! — 5:30 – 7:00 at BA1130. I am _so_ going to be there. <cancels everything else on her schedule>
• 2003: Comments on http://optics.blogspot.com: — by the way sacha, however did you find out that i had linked you to my blog already? and a correction [...]