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On This Day...

• 2013: Quantified Awesome: Taking inventory of stuff in closets and drawers — “Did I buy that aviator hat, or was I just thinking about it? Did I give it away?” “Have you [...]
• 2012: January 15, 2012 — This weekend brought a cold snap, or maybe this is regular winter in contrast to the mild days earlier. We [...]
• 2011: Emacs 24 and the package manager — Update: Added (require ‘package) – thanks, Ryan! By default, the Emacs 24 package manager (M-x package-list-packages) points to a small repository [...]
• 2010: Microblogging talk — I’ve promised to give a short talk on microblogging for the knowledge and collaboration community (KCBlue) at work. Might be [...]
• 2009: Diminishing returns on cat affection — Click on the image to view a larger version.
• 2009: Travel tips — Here’s a braindump of tips for making frequent travel more fun: Learn a little of the language and culture. Look up [...]
• 2008: Planning a talk! =) “”Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job… and into a Career” — So it looks like I might be talking at the next Concordia University alumni event. Wouldn’t that be cool? Thanks [...]
• 2008: — … And the MacBook Air, while interesting, doesn’t meet any immediate need (though I look forward to playing with one [...]
• 2008: Not much writing today… — … but I’m glad to report that my mind is calming down a bit. At the very least, I’m getting [...]
• 2008: My head is buzzing — My head is buzzing. Well no, not like a mosquito. Bouncing around, like a sugar-high rabbit in a cage. My [...]
• 2007: What people don’t know about me — Toronto uber-girl-friend Quinn has just tagged me with the “5 things people don’t know about you” meme. Ordinarily I’d stick [...]
• 2007: Returning to chess — I’ve missed playing chess. The chess books I’ve had since grade school are still on the bookshelves, waiting to be dusted [...]
• 2007: My sister’s in love! — Synchronized movie dates, daily webcam chats, endless retellings of favorite moments—my sister’s in love, and distance is not a problem! They’re really [...]
• 2007: On the road to growing up — I’ve signed up for 10 hours of driving lessons, starting at 8 AM tomorrow. It’ll be a refresher course—almost a complete [...]
• 2007: BBDB: Print birthdates — This snippet goes through all the records in my Big Brother Database, prints out birthdate and a link to the record, [...]
• 2007: Salesdogs: I’m a Chihuahua! — Are you turned off sales because you think everyone has to be a pit bull? When most people think of sales, [...]
• 2005: Squeak talk — - Luca, from Italy. Been in Japan for 1 year. 4 months in Tokyo. Lived in Sendai. Working as a [...]
• 2005: TLUG meeting: Knoppix — Today we have two presenters talking. Before we do that, we usually have new faces give a short introduction. - Craig. [...]
• 2005: Planner poetry — I’m up to here with things to do   And buried under data The notes I keep all filed away,   The tasks—I’ll do them [...]
• 2004: Status report — Kathy and I had a lot of fun with the videoke thing this evening. We tried Tragedy among other old songs. [...]