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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending November 3, 2012 — Second week of conference sprint. Toronto was buffeted by Hurricane Sandy, but skipped the worst of it. I stayed home [...]
• 2011: Quantified Awesome: Development-driven behaviour and integrated tests for life — 2011-12-14: Updated step code In terms of testing code, behaviour-driven development is fantastic. You can write your tests in pretty much [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending November 4, 2011 — I worked 46 hours this week. Most of the overtime was from a 12-hour sprint on Tuesday, getting all our [...]
• 2010: Where do you find topics to write about? How to have tons of topics — People often ask me how they can blog more. The easiest blog post to write is the answer. It is [...]
• 2009: My Inkscape settings — Here are some things I change right away in my Inkscape settings: Double-click on the pencil tool, and choose “Last used [...]
• 2006: Real life — I went to Michael McGuffin’s birthday party. I enjoy spending time with him, his wife Alice, and their kids. There’s just [...]
• 2006: Combimouse and completely split keyboards — I keep daydreaming about a totally split keyboard. Something like the Combimouse, I guess. I hope they commercialize it soon, ’cause I [...]
• 2006: Feeling much better — I was in bed all day yesterday thanks to a very annoying fever and the beginning of a sore throat. It [...]
• 2005: A couple of quotes — A crucible is a severe test of patience and belief. Whether the crucible experience is an apprenticeship, an ordeal, or [...]
• 2004: Pfft. Geek bias. — Hmm. 51.67653% – Super Geek. Oh well. Slightly disappointing. ;) Then again, I’m not part of the usual(?!) geek culture. I [...]
• 2004: Nifty! The quick start’s sorta readable! — Clair has started playing around with Emacs and Planner. She found the quick start useful. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Clair: A basic Planner should automatically pick up [...]
• 2004: Collected links for Faye story — Some people e-mailed me for information, so I figured I’d see what I could come up with using my searching-fu. Google [...]
• 2004: Will move to a hotel — New trainees are coming to Tokyo Kenshu Center next week, so Aris and I have to move to a hotel temporarily. [...]
• 2004: Update on Faye — Followup stories. Posting because people who read this blog might be curious. - Faye being used in political attack on gov’t? (2004.11.04) - [...]
• 2003: chatting with Diane — quiz every day 5 points not all objective chapter a day not pressured to memorize objective things helpful reviews do what we feel like doing – [...]