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On This Day...

• 2012: International cooking — I was thinking about going to the Canadian National Exhibition to watch the airshow with friends and check out the [...]
• 2011: Notes on transcription with and without a foot pedal — I finally sat down and transcribed the interview on discovering yourself through blogging, where Holly Tse puts up with my [...]
• 2010: Book: Leading Outside the Lines — I want to get really good at being a fast zebra. The metaphor comes from Leading Outside the Lines, Jon [...]
• 2008: Squee! Won Slideshare’s Best Presentation Contest! — My introduction-in-verse won the Slideshare Best Presentation Contest Category for “About Me”! Which probably means that at some point, I [...]
• 2006: Wanted: real-time calendaring for get-togethers — My social calendar tends to stay relatively full. I have to consciously schedule breaks into it because otherwise I just pack [...]
• 2006: A passion for social systems – clues to my next short-term step? — Each day brings an opportunity for me to reaffirm my decision that connecting with people is important to me and that [...]
• 2006: Free Software and Open Source Symposium, Toronto, Oct 26-27 — Via Kelly Drahzal: there’ll be a Free Software and Open Source Symposium in Toronto from Oct 26 to 27. Admission [...]
• 2006: Networking tips: Bring your own nametag — I bought myself a pack of inkjet/laser self-adhesive name tags, which turned out to be a remarkably good idea. Before heading [...]
• 2006: More Emacs goodness: Refresh your memory when you e-mail using notes from BBDB — Inspired by an e-mail-based customer relationship management system briefly described by Daniel Charles of digital ketchup at Shoeless Joe’s last [...]
• 2005: Teaching Carnival — Check out the Teaching Carnival for excellent blog posts about education. Good stuff! Picked up the link from Marcia Hansen’s blog. [...]
• 2005: Penguin powwow — We, the Penguins of Sacha Chua, are delighted to welcome four additions to the Penguin Circle. Penguin powwow Candle-penguin tried its best [...]
• 2005: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooooo! Published! — Bob Erb wrote: Reading Linux Journal at work today, I get to the article about todo lists, browsing through it, getting [...]
• 2005: Book notes: Life Matters — Title Life Matters Authors A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill I totally, totally, totally like this book. It’s just _packed_ with gems. A few pages [...]
• 2005: Book notes: Rules for the Road — Title Rules for the Road Author Eve Luppert ISBN 0-399-52411-8 Luppert’s guide to surviving an entry-level job is a good read for fresh graduates who need tips [...]
• 2005: Book notes: Financial Freedom on $5 a Day — Title Financial Freedom on $5 a Day Author Chuck Chakrapani ISBN 0-88908-952-3 Like most personal finance books, Financial Freedom on $5 a Day suggests a regular savings [...]
• 2004: Reply from Mom — For your info, the two Perla bars are real laundry SOAP - not detergent. They would be less convenient to [...]
• 2003: Communication problems — I talked to 1 today because he and 2 aren’t getting along very well and I feel that something must be [...]
• 2003: Array review — cs21a, education — Drew from ACM problems today – used a simplified Lights Out! for their array game tomorrow.
• 2003: Open content textbooks — http://textbook.wikipedia.org/
• 2003: Created WearableComputingPlans — WearableComputing contains the general public stuff. =)
• 2003: More about life, the universe, and everything — Jerome seems to have been rather busy. He was here just yesterday, (errata: Saturday, it turns out, so things aren’t that [...]
• 2003: What “Finding Nemo” Character Are You? — What Finding Nemo Character are You? brought to you by Quizilla
• 2003: Mozilla Firebird — - http://www.mozillatips.com/ - What’s “Caret Browsing”?
• 2003: Disabling automatic typeahead find — // If you set this pret to true, typing can automatically start Find As You Type. // If false (default), you [...]
• 2003: Message IDs on Mom’s mail — For some reason, the internal IP address is getting out. I thought Eudora was supposed to automatically handle that…
• 2003: Migrating from Solaris to Linux — Dominique Cimafranca links to http://www.techonline.com/community/26599
• 2003: Poetry — Rainy days invite one to slumber. If the sun does not wake, why should I? So it happens this morn in September: *I* [...]