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On This Day...

• 2013: From cats to keystrokes — Whenever we sit on the couch to watch a movie, the cats inevitably gather. Neko prefers to sit on W-’s [...]
• 2012: Org-mode and habits — Org Mode is a personal information manager for the Emacs text editor. People have contributed a ton of useful features [...]
• 2010: Picking hobbies that fit together — Some people have one hobby at a time. I tend to have several that shift over time, and I’ve gone [...]
• 2009: Sewing, or on soldiering on — It’s amazing what a difference a hemline makes. I hand-basted most of the hem so that I could ease it to [...]
• 2009: I am a young shock-worker — Tania Samsonova pointed me to this Russian-English language book because of its amusing stick figures and hilarious dialogue. To wit: How [...]
• 2009: Refuse to Choose: or life is a many-splendoured thing — One of the things people pick up on right away, whether it’s from a five-minute conversation or a glance at [...]
• 2009: Thank you, Lotus forums! — I started panicking when Lotus Notes 8.5 wouldn’t show me my mail. Everything else worked, but when I went to [...]
• 2009: Sewing: Of sewing more dresses and making more pots — After I sewed the zipper on the Vogue 8020 dress I made using the butterfly blue fabric from Fabricland, I [...]
• 2006: Mashing the Vote: Web 2.0 for Social Change — Phillip Smith, Mark Greenspan. Introductions: Sacha Chua. Social computing in the enterprise, U of Toronto and IBM. Also interested in grassroots because [...]
• 2006: At mesh conference; Om Malik keynote — I survived the morning rush of registrants at mesh conference in Toronto, and I’m now listening to the keynote conversation between [...]