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On This Day...

• 2012: Answering questions about the Quantified Self — James Hennessey sent in these questions, and I decided to blog my answers instead of keeping them in e-mail. =) What [...]
• 2010: Systematically eliminating choices — I confess: I sometimes feel overwhelmed when researching choices. I find it really helpful to write options down and [...]
• 2009: Riding on my bicycle — - Friday - I rode the subway instead of bicycling to work. It took me the same amount of time, which [...]
• 2008: The Orange Chair » Social networking and innovation in a large company — This is more of a work-day topic, but you might be interested in it anyway. Here’s an excerpt from my [...]
• 2007: Rediscovered words — I haven’t read my own ShortStories in a while. I hardly recognize myself. I don’t remember writing some things or what [...]
• 2006: The dawn of a new Moleskine — I’ve reached the last page on my well-loved Moleskine notebook and must retire it to my archives. This is the little [...]
• 2006: Momblogging — My mom would rather that I don’t directly link to her blog, which is a pity because you won’t get to [...]
• 2006: VPN! — Hooray! Finally! Network access from my laptop Just Works! This means I can work on my research from my regular computer [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Software Freedom Day — Goodness, I have *such* a blogging backlog. Here’s a story about Software Freedom Day last 2006.09.16 that helped me learn a [...]
• 2006: My mom’s blogging! — And she writes better than I do… <laugh> She’s totally awesome! I’m looking forward to reading more stories from her. I should [...]
• 2006: Step out of your comfort zone — Didith Rodrigo: Disturb Us, O Lord However you want to refer to whatever makes you try to be greater than yourself, [...]
• 2005: Lentil lunacy — I will never underestimate lentils again. They give me a warm and fuzzy feeling of being quite full. A bit too [...]
• 2005: Lapping up lentils — The past few days have been repeats of previous CookOrDie successes, so I figured today I’d cook something in the true [...]
• 2005: What do I want to do with my life? — What it is that you do? What is your core expertise? That made me stop and think. Effective mission statements aren’t born [...]
• 2004: A LAZY AFTERNOON — The carabao grunted to a halt unceremoniously. I felt Maria wake up. Steadying her, I jumped off the broad back and [...]
• 2003: ff and C/C++ programming — Emacs — These functions look interesting for C and C++ programming: - ff-find-the-other-file - ff-find-related-file
• 2003: Okay, I think it’s time for me to rest. — I’m typing slowly _and_ I’m thinking slowly, which is never a good combination. =) I do _not_ want to add bugs [...]
• 2003: “Revenge of the Coders” — There is a movement among programmers away from sluggish, feature-heavy IDEs and toward flexible code editors as enterprises focus intensely on productivity. [...]
• 2003: ARGHHH. — There are few things quite as annoying as realizing that you are reinventing the wheel halfway through the process. Argh argh argh [...]
• 2003: ACM — Nov 5, 6, 7
• 2003: Class day yesterday — Incidentally, I had an excellent class day yesterday – group work. CS21AFirst03#Exercises.TwistedText for more details.