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On This Day...

• 2013: Weekly review: Week ending February 15, 2013 — Blog posts Developing a sense of time with Tasker alerts on my Android phone Starting from scratch with Windows 8 [...]
• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending February 17, 2012 — What a week! Yesterday, I helped Regan work on one of the projects I’ve turned over to her. I also [...]
• 2011: LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL — This tip’s for Mike Nurse and other people who are looking for small things that could make LinkedIn more useful [...]
• 2011: Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters — A chance remark by the turtle about Daddy Long Legs led me to request the 1955 musical from the Toronto [...]
• 2011: On friendship and becoming more social — I’ve been talking to people about my project of becoming more social, getting better at connecting. It makes sense. I [...]
• 2010: It’s not what you can’t write, it’s what you need to share — We like scaring ourselves out of complex opportunities. Take sharing, for example. Sharing too much online can backfire badly, so [...]
• 2007: Barter Network Toronto — An article in the Small Business magazine led me to Barter Network, a Toronto-based business-to-business trade exchange that’s definitely worth checking out. I’ve [...]
• 2007: Weekly report — This week was more intense than most in terms of personal drama, but I think that’s subsiding now as I’ve gotten [...]
• 2007: A place to live — I’m beginning to like the new suite in Graduate House. Sure, it was a pain boxing up all of my stuff, [...]
• 2005: Brilliant idea about my summer schedule — I need to hack a couple of things in Adphoto. For one, the scheduling system needs to be improved. Also, we [...]
• 2005: Modification of johnsu01′s scoring — The following code allows you to sort tasks based on regexp matches against the line. It’s fairly simple, but may give [...]
• 2005: [Abrams, 1997] Abrams, D. (1997). Human factors of personal web information spaces. Technical report, Knowledge Media Design Institute Technical Report 1, University of Toronto. — http://www.dabrams.com/research/bookmarks/thesis/thesis.pdf “Human factors of personal web information spaces” is a detailed statistical study of how people use bookmarks, including observations on filing and [...]
• 2005: Daniel S. Weld: Personalization — K. Gajos, R. Hoffmann and D. Weld, “Improving User Interface Personalization” UIST 2004, Santa Fe, NM, October 2004. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/papers/gajos-uist-04.pdf D. Weld, C. [...]
• 2005: One week left — Seven more days and I’ll be home! I need to think about how I’m going to spend my summer. I’ve realized that [...]