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On This Day...

• 2011: Decision review: Metropass instead of biking to work in November — After a pleasant weekend bike ride with W-, I thought I’d get back into the habit of biking to work. [...]
• 2010: Drupal, SimpleTest, and the node access API — Setting up Simpletest and Drush on Drupal 6.x: Download and enable Simpletest with drush dl simpletest; drush en [...]
• 2010: Reinvention: virtual storytelling summit Nov 11 – 22, 2010 — Update: May 12 2012: Hmm, files are missing. Sorry! UPDATE: Here are my sketchnotes from the first day. Click on each [...]
• 2009: How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar – Part 1: The best seats in the house — I was talking to one of my mentors about the recent presentation I’d given on Remote Presentations That Rock. I [...]
• 2009: Libraries — Image via Wikipedia As I write this, my shelves hold 50 books from the Toronto Public Library (the maximum you can [...]
• 2008: Preparing presentations: from mindmap to storyboard — The way I prepare presentations has changed quite a lot since I started speaking in public in 2002. (Wow, it’s [...]
• 2008: There’s something about mornings — Our cat has a firm idea of what constitutes a perfectly acceptable wake-up time for breakfast: 6:00. I’ve taken to [...]
• 2005: Flash fiction: ALLEYCAT – 196 words — ALLEYCAT by Sacha Chua I tug the hem of my red leather dress down against the cold. Out of the corner of my [...]
• 2005: Ethics in research — I attended a seminar on ethics given by the department. All graduate students are required to take this seminar in their [...]
• 2004: Insightful Slashdot comment on Linux migration — For a large shop: - count on a migration period of about five years. Train the admins, make them your friends. - Transition [...]
• 2003: Summary — Spent most of today working on the lab computers. The teacher’s computer in F227 has Linux and assorted goodies now, but [...]
• 2003: EClass, a cross-platform, open source software toolkit for authoring, managing and delivering e-learning via computer or the Internet — http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rq3lqvkkjv0vu6n10m78plandaa7e7dm16%404ax.com E-Mail from Federico Sevilla III
• 2003: Data structures to the rescue! — John Hunter is looking for a data structure to identify the closest neighbor in 2D to new points as they are [...]
• 2003: LabSetup — I’ve successfully installed Linux onto the main computer, but I’m still having problems with the workstation – to wit, the mouse [...]
• 2003: A Low-Cost High-Impact Computer Science Show for Family Audiences — education Wow. This is _so_ cool! Google it and be enlightened. ;) I _definitely_ want to pull this off at the next [...]
• 2003: CookOrDie: Day 1 — Survived my experiment. (I think; I feel a little bit bloated, which could be a good thing or a bad [...]
• 2003: CookOrDie! — The CookOrDie! plan involves eating out at most one meal a day. If I don’t want to starve, I will _have_ [...]
• 2003: w00t! — There’s, like, 19GB of free space on this hard disk! I’d defragged for nothing! 7 gb for main, 2 gb for data, [...]