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On This Day...

• 2012: #SMref panel: Changing Nature of Influence–Moderator: Terry Foster–Panel: Matt Juniper, Patrick Thoburn, Ron Nurwisah, Eric Alper — These are notes from the panel moderated by Terry Foster (Cision) on the changing nature of influence. Check out the Twitter [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: AndroidTO–The Business of Mobile — These sketchnotes are from the keynotes and Mobile Business track of AndroidTO 2012. Feel free to share this! You can [...]
• 2011: Practising drawing: variations on a theme — You need to doodle your way through lots of faces until you get the hang of drawing them the way [...]
• 2010: How I got into computer science — How did I get into computer science? I don’t know. I grew up immersed in computers. A preschooler: [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending October 25, 2009 — Plans from last week: Work: Set up two idea labs and send invitations Follow up with experts Write the script/speaker’s [...]
• 2009: The man who should’ve used Connections — Wow. There are some seriously talented IBMers out there. This is the latest installment in “The Man Who Should’ve Used Connections”, [...]
• 2009: Thinking in terms of decades — One of my mentors is about to celebrate his quarter-century anniversary with IBM. Over biscuits and tea at my place, [...]
• 2007: Business practice maven-wannabe — That’s what Stephen Perelgut and I came up with: business practice maven-wannabe. I want to get really good at observing people [...]
• 2006: What does a portfolio for a tech evangelist look like? — Software developers show printouts of code. Artists bring a portfolio. What does a tech evangelist wannabe show? Testimonials? Speech transcripts? A short pitch for [...]
• 2006: KMD2004 meeting — Start: 2:15 PM End: 4:00 PM Dave Kemp, Sacha Chua, MJ Suhonos Sacha will send Dave Kemp login information for the wiki Discussed feedback [...]
• 2005: Midterms and mushrooms — My midterms were actually pretty fun. I missed a number of points—made a mistake in one formula, forgot to mention something [...]
• 2005: Joel on Software against tailoring software — Shrink-wrapped software makes more financial sense, says Joel Spolsky, warning of the dangers of consultingware. No problem with that, but _I_ like [...]
• 2005: planner: so addictive, even the vim people want it — Seen on gmane.editors.vim : Is there a vim script that mimics the emacs planner mode? There’s a couple of wiki plugins, but [...]
• 2005: Presentations and getting naked — No, no, this is still safe-for-work material. Presentation Zen has some great insights on being in the moment. Great musicians aren’t as [...]
• 2004: Coding life — I have come to the realization that as much as I love coding, I don’t think I’d want it to be [...]
• 2004: In other news — Pretty much done with the code for the little project they gave us. Am a few days ahead of the Friday [...]
• 2004: Backlog: After the conference — Half of my personal mail was in Japanese thanks to the keysigning. I liked that a lot. I should write in [...]
• 2004: Met Jean-Christophe Helary — JC Helary is a professional French/English/Japanese translator who handles documents from the countryside. He comes to Tokyo every month for business meetings [...]
• 2004: Mail problems — cyrus (Hiya, Jijo!) is dropping mail from me again, so I have to send mail using my own MTA for now. [...]
• 2004: More Emacs tips — http://www.douglasjohnston.net From Douglas Johnston: In case you’re interested, the second part of my “Emacs retreat” is online at the blog. (It’s mainly for [...]
• 2004: 11/1 Mozilla Japan free seminar — From: EGOTA Motohiro Subject: 11/1 Âè 1 ²ó Mozilla Japan ̵ÎÁ¥»¥ß¥Ê¡¼¤Î¤´°ÆÆâ¡£ To: blue@blue.gr.jp, ylug@linux.or.jp, linux-users@linux.or.jp Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:57:17 [...]
• 2003: Rough notes on education — reach the interested people first (at least for _this_ talk.) subexercise – evolving code lots of students problems because of few resources frustrating to [...]
• 2003: More GCBirzan stories — education — *GCBirzan* I teach CCNA courses for a local Cisco Academy Mmm. In our database class, we're allowed to use any [...]
• 2003: GCBirzan’s cool SQL contest — education — *GCBirzan* I didn't really like the fact that the teacher used a lot of [...]
• 2003: Debian Bug Squashing Party — Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, the GULL (Groupe [...]
• 2003: Another CS class using eclipse — education — http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse/1-Install.pdf
• 2003: Contemplate thread scoring — I’m somewhat interested in long threads on some mailing lists, as chances are those are the ones with cool insights. I [...]