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On This Day...

• 2012: Raiding San Francisco’s Japantown for bento accessories and pens — Japantown was a thirty-minute walk from Union Square along a route that reminded me that yes, San Francisco is built [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending September 9, 2011 — Busy week. Good week. Lots of stuff done. SQL Server 2000 still frustrating, though. Oh well! Drupal and Rails hacking [...]
• 2010: Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review — 2010-09-11 Sat 08:00 I like using Emacs Org-mode to organize my notes. One of the things it makes [...]
• 2009: Made a lunch bag — The ditty bag I made was in too floral a fabric for Wayne to use, so I appropriated it and [...]
• 2008: Slidecast: New Media, New Generation — new media, new generation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0) I gave a panel presentation entitled [...]
• 2007: Out of my control — The person responsible for preparing letters of confirmation of degree at University of Toronto’s School of Graduate Studies isn’t around. I’ve called [...]
• 2007: Emacs — Terrific comic from UserFriendly about my favorite text editor. I might take sick leave too! ;) Random Emacs symbol: general-holidays – Variable: [...]
• 2007: Highrise HQ — I took a look at Highrise HQ following a recommendation by Winston Damarillo. It’s a web-based contact relationship manager (CRM) [...]
• 2006: Gwaaah, panic, terror — I don’t have butterflies in my stomach. I’ve got representatives from every species of the order Lepidoptera and they’ve taken up [...]
• 2006: Travelling — Another thing to remember when I feel homesick – these words by Nigerian novelist Ben Okri: Travelling challenges you to change [...]
• 2006: Some kind of sport – maybe tennis? — Hmm. Maybe I should try learning some kind of sport. Dr. Oposa is very fond of tennis. Maybe I should give [...]
• 2006: Networking evils: The you’re-just-a-student brushoff — I know, Simon said I shouldn’t waste more time thinking about this, but I had an interesting learning experience today. =) A [...]
• 2006: Friday: Art appreciation day at the ROM — The Royal Ontario Museum offers free admission from 4:30 PM onwards every Friday. Simon suggested heading over there for a bit [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Viz workshop last Friday — I went to David W. Gray‘s workshop last Friday to learn more about visualizations because of my research interest in tracking, visualizing, [...]
• 2006: Blogging backlog: Okay, fine, I’m a social butterfly — There. I’ve admitted it. Happy? ;) Normal introverts don’t find themselves trying to find more hours in the day so that they [...]
• 2005: Sprinting — I really wanted to spend today with Mom, but I realized that I needed to prepare for the start of school. [...]
• 2003: Slashdot story? — More people having platonic relationships? Two, three weeks ago.
• 2003: Pisay considering open source — But sysad not familiar with it. Plan: Teach Computron, get them into Linux. UP LUG kinda busy educating UP. Minimal support [...]
• 2003: CS21A review project — (education) Quoting speedstorm25 : Hi, Jaime and I are conducting a quick pulse to determine which topics you are not familiar with or [...]
• 2003: Gnus funkiness – reply to multiple posts — I just discovered something funky about Gnus. If I mark several messages for processing (# in the summary buffer) and then [...]
• 2003: On the benefits of my far-out exercises — From one of my students: >> Do you like exercises like this, or should we just stick to the stuff in >> [...]
• 2003: OnTutoring — Encourage students to come to tutorial sessions with a list of prepared questions. Tutorials are not mini-lectures, but rather opportunities [...]