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On This Day...

• 2013: Monthly review: March 2013 — Last month, I wrote: March: Some graphic recording, a keynote for the Emacs conference on March 30, and more writing and [...]
• 2012: Back to biking — Yay spring! The weather has been clear and sunny. I decided not to buy a Metropass this month. Instead, I’m [...]
• 2011: Helping kids learn algebra — In the math study groups we organize at home, we’ve moved past fractions and percentages into the wild and wonderful [...]
• 2010: Happiness at work — What makes you happy at work? It’s good to know what specific activities make you happy. That way, you can work [...]
• 2006: Consumating: tags as communication — Ah, I see! People could be using tags for messaging in order to get around Consumating’s message limits. Or maybe it’s [...]
• 2006: Tagging people — Boundary studies are nice for figuring out where something doesn’t work and why it doesn’t work. I’ve been thinking about where [...]
• 2006: Wireless — It’s exceedingly slow, but it works. Hooray, hooray! Kudos to http://individual.utoronto.ca/bonert/wireless.html for good instructions. On Technorati: wireless, linux Random Japanese sentence: 私は猫を家の外に出した。 I let the [...]
• 2006: The Human Face of Research — Dr. Brenda Laurel presents The Human Face of Research Ontario College of Art & Design 100 McCaul Street (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps) Toronto, [...]
• 2006: On tutoring — Awwww! Someone found OnTutoring useful! From http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/o/aog103/Tutor%20Manual/feedback2_mxplan.html : This set of instructions for the tutor to take into account when tutoring is very [...]
• 2005: Horrible customer service — I took a taxi just to make it to my 4:00 appointment at DermLink, a small dermatology clinic along Arnaiz Ave. [...]
• 2005: Chat with Sean — I finally managed to have dinner with Sean earlier. It turns out he wasn’t avoiding me (heaven forbid). He had just [...]
• 2005: About procrastination — From http://www.dictionary.com : pro-cras-ti-nate (v. intr.) To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. (v. tr.) To postpone or [...]
• 2004: Cyrus21 — I dusted off the Linux computer I’d set up previously, uninstalled courier, and started an installation of cyrus21. Squirrelmail’s still installed and [...]