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On This Day...

• 2013: Why and how I’m (re)learning Japanese — Clay Shirky has a great term for this: cognitive surplus, or what you can do when you have discretionary time [...]
• 2012: Garden update — Hooray for perennials! Even when my newly-planted seeds are growing unencouragingly slowly, at least I can look at the perennials [...]
• 2011: Stuff or experiences — Soha wanted to know what I thought about the differences between spending on stuff and experiences. This took me several [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending April 25, 2010 — Plans from last week: Work [X] Update Idea Lab organizer guide [-] Career growth: map role models [-] Review favourite collaboration examples and map [...]
• 2009: Science Rendevous, May 9 11 AM – 5 PM, Toronto — I love science. Love love love love. And now Toronto has a street festival for it: Science Rendezvous on [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2007: Augh, I want my life back! — I submitted the paper through the Web-based submission system and e-mailed the person who had sent me the early review announcement [...]
• 2007: Thoughts on anxiety — I need some time to think. One of the difficulties of learning so much every day is the awareness that I [...]
• 2005: Diarist prompts — I’m looking for a daily or weekly source of writing prompts. I’d like prompts that tend toward self-discovery rather than fiction, [...]
• 2005: Hipster PDA: Month view — Being able to quickly see my schedule for two months totally, totally rocks. My iPAQ didn’t have the screenspace for something [...]