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On This Day...

• 2013: Developing a sense of time with Tasker alerts on my Android phone — I wanted to get a better sense of time, so I configured my phone to vibrate every half-hour in a [...]
• 2012: High school acceptance, yay! — J- got into the CyberArts high school program! One of the coordinators called this week to offer acceptance and compliment [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending February 11, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [-] Start on new project involving Facebook and Rails [-] Work on [...]
• 2010: Wiki information architecture thoughts — Even though a wiki is a free-form, unstructured, organic information repository, it needs to be organized so that users don’t [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2008: Sketch: My first writing group —
• 2008: Taking quick notes for books — I love my book notes system. I almost always ask fellow bookworms how they keep track of what they’ve learned [...]
• 2008: Making arrangements for my cat — Trying to arrange my cat’s transit isn’t easy. Today I called the Japanese Quarantine Service. Not trusting my command of [...]
• 2004: Sean vs Sacha — Move Sean Sacha 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d3 Nf6 4 Nc3 Bb4 5 Be3 d5 6 exd5 Nxd5 7 Bd2 Bg4 8 Qe2? o-o 9 h3 Bh5 10 g4 Bg6 11 Nxe5 Nxe5 12 Qxe5? Re8 (pinning the queen; see position) After 12. Qxe5 13 d4 Nxc3 14 a3 Rxe5 15 dxe5 Ne4? (easy counter) 16 Bd3? Bxd2+ 17 Kf1 Qd4 18 Bxe4 Bxe4 19 Rg2 Qc4# 8| R|.|.|Q|.|R|K|. 7| P|P|P|.|.|P|P|P 6| .|.|.|.|.|.|B|. 5| .|.|.|N|q|.|.|. 4| .|B|.|.|.|.|p|. 3| [...]
• 2004: Chess — http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/ch-clear.htm
• 2004: CS problems — http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_cs;action=display;num=1068659376
• 2004: Dutch — “zeg hoi” == “say hoi” :P http://www.taalthuis.com/course/beginners/index.htm