2010: Toaster’s toasted — Our wedding vacation was a whirlwind of cooking, thanks to the talents of my middle sister Kathy and our family [...]
2008: Happy BlueDay to me! — Today is my one-year anniversary at IBM! Yes, I know, I’ve been on the IBM network for a couple of [...]
2007: First day of work — Like most (sane) graduates, I’m a little anxious about this real life
thing, but I’m confident that it will work out [...]
2005: Bought winter boots! — After a _lot_ of comparison shopping (all along Yonge Street, from
Bloor to Queen), I finally settled on two pairs of [...]
2004: Strange problem with Linux networking — For some reason, I sporadically have problems with Linux networking,
although Windows works without any obvious problems. DHCP works. I
acquire a [...]
2004: Nomikai — The nomikai was tons of fun! I’m looking forward to the next one. I
met lots of interesting people. Michael Moyle [...]
2004: CHOPSTICKS — “Help me do my hair.” Palsied hands guided mine to the pair of
chopsticks Mama always used to bind her hair [...]
2003: Meeting with Dr. Sarmenta re CS21B — start: 3:30
- Good design
- Object-oriented principles
- Files
- Networking
- Threads
- Patterns: abstracting and applying to a different situation
- Tokenizing strings
UML
J2ME
official patterns [...]
2003: An insight on project defenses — I find that I approach project defenses as my opportunity to learn
from the group the insights they had while working [...]
2003: Chocolate jewelry — From Martin:
http://www.jcreport.com/archive/issue23/index.html
check out the first article. The pic of the ring enlarges.
Question is, would you wear it or eat [...]
2003: Teaching quote — Teaching quote: “The teacher is the needle and the disciple is the thread.” (Miyamoto Musashi)
xpress razor Nice tutorial. Once in a while someone posts about Emacs, and I get tempted again to play with the devil. When two three days passes,... – May 20, 12:01 PM
Pat Thomasson Focus on what you can do and it tempers the helpless, overwhelmed feeling. That's a great piece of advice. – May 20, 6:05 AM
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