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On This Day...

• 2012: Planning for retirement when you don’t know where you’ll be — I have several friends who’ve also moved to Canada from other places. One of them asked me how she could [...]
• 2011: Jetlag-assisted early days — I like jet lag. Used well, it’s a low-effort way to reset one’s sleep schedule. I’ve been waking up at [...]
• 2010: Notes from DrupalCampToronto 2010 — Update May 21, 2012: Sorry, sketches are missing! I’m shifting from a emerging technologies consulting project (organizing executive workshops and brainstorming [...]
• 2009: Routines — It’s funny how powerful routine is. Take exercise, for example. If I try to find time for exercise, I’ll do it [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending October 18, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Finish the template invitation for the upcoming idea labs It creates three calendar events that are marked [...]
• 2008: Things I do when I’m travelling on my own — Here are some odd things I give myself permission to do when I’m travelling on my own: Play computer games in [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending Oct 19 — Last week, I: gracefully handled whatever Murphy’s Law wanted to throw at me during a presentation to a client VP prepared a [...]
• 2007: My first week of work — It’s Friday already? It can’t be Friday yet. There’s still so much I want to do. =) I enjoy my work [...]
• 2005: The sun _does_ come up after all — Taught MIE451 a little bleary-eyed today, but fortunately picked up a number of useful stories from personal experience. Had fun using [...]
• 2005: Post-conference blues — Suddenly blindsided by post-conference blues. The dangerous thing about finally having time to breathe is that it’s also enough time to cry. Now [...]
• 2004: SAND CATS – 563 words — “Here, kitty, kitty…” The girl made a welcoming sound in the back of her throat as she coaxed the shy tabby [...]
• 2004: Good news and bad news: Pictures and Internet — The good news is that I managed to grab a copy of all the pictures I’d taken, after some panicking as [...]
• 2004: Finished! — Did okay on my presentation. Met Uematsu-san and Tanaka-san. Tanaka-san is the president of MSI. Whee! =) Kato-san is coming to Japan [...]
• 2004: Notes from AOTS talk — Good afternoon, I am Mr. Yamamoto. I myself have bought an electronic dictionary. Before I bought, I asked the shopkeeper what [...]
• 2004: 04YIT8W General orientation countres: closing meeting — Before we start, I’d like to mention some of the points. Today, we have a number of people from the magazine [...]
• 2003: CS215 evaluation — Effect: The modules were clearly explained and the engaging story helped motivate the students to work on the project. The students [...]
• 2003: Irony — The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying [...]