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On This Day...

• 2013: Cherry blossoms in High Park, and playing with digital watercolour in Artrage 4 — High Park has a lot of cherry trees. They bloom for such a short time and it’s hard to predict [...]
• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending May 11, 2012 — From last week’s plans Business [X] Earn: E1: Mon-Thu (training, prototyping) [X] Connect: Go to Toronto Reference Library small business meetup and post [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending May 6, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Tidy up project C Relationships [X] Hang out with my family! Yay! [...]
• 2010: Dear future Sacha, — Remember these things as you go through life: Happiness is a state of mind. It can’t be bought, given, [...]
• 2009: Smiling over a distance — I spent another hour this morning coaching Milind, a developer in India who’s starting on the Drupal project I worked [...]
• 2009: A love affair with books — (2008) W- and I got to know each other over lots of carpool conversations. One time, he gave me a lift [...]
• 2008: Sketchcat — Hey, that worked. Good thing I still have some of my favorite sketches on my DS. Here’s the sketch I [...]
• 2008: Sketchcast: Week ending May 11 — Andy Piper linked to my Nintendo DS sketches and to something interesting called sketchcasting, so I wanted to figure out [...]
• 2005: Hipster PDA: GTD Tiddly Wiki — Miguel Javier said: GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone adaptation of JeremyRuston’s Open Source TiddlyWiki. The purpose of GTD Tiddly Wiki is [...]
• 2005: New productivity blog: To-Done — I stumbled upon a cool new productivity blog: http://www.to-done.com. Keith started on May 4. Based on the articles that are already up, [...]
• 2004: emacs-wiki oops — As a side-effect of handling tags first in order to deal with nasty things like <example>, <contents> no longer lists notes. We [...]
• 2004: 55er: “We’re Pregnant” — “Easy does it. Remember that Lamaze class we took? Breathe in, breathe out. Don’t think of it as a big deal.” “I’m [...]
• 2004: “Fast Food Fiction: Short Stories to Go” — 179 pp., Anvil Publishing edited by Noelle Q. de Jesus A local anthology of flash fiction. I want. Sixty stories of 500-900 words? [...]
• 2004: “Adopted” — “Mother? Am I adopted?” A tiny hand slipped into mine. The moment of truth? Raised her as our own flesh and blood, [...]
• 2004: Cybercode — http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354667&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE
• 2004: Getting Things Done, by David Allen — http://www.davidco.com/ Niklas Morberg sent me an e-mail about planner.el support for Dave Allen’s “Getting Things Done” method. This is the first time [...]