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On This Day...

• 2013: Quantified Self time-tracking: Choosing your buckets — This post missed its publishing schedule. I’m posting it today so that it doesn’t get lost. Kate asked me how I [...]
• 2013: After Emacs Conf 2013; ideas for Sunday and Monday — Emacs Conf 2013 was a blast! It was super awesome meeting so many Emacs geeks in person, and the talks [...]
• 2011: Quid est nōmen tuum? Nōmen meum est “Sacha” — Latīnum studémus. Monē mē! The Latin textbooks that W- ordered from the library have arrived, and we’re slowly making [...]
• 2011: Becoming a faster developer — (NOTE: Becoming a faster developer isn’t necessarily the same as becoming a more productive developer. Becoming a more productive developer [...]
• 2010: Dusting off my Emacs config files — In June 2009, I switched hats and started facilitating workshops instead of developing Drupal code. Organizing resources and learning more [...]
• 2009: More thoughts on calendar management — I have three days left on my free trial of Timebridge, so I need to make a decision. Do I [...]
• 2009: Planning projects for April: making remote presentations that rock, managing virtual assistants — There are two interesting projects I’d like to get going for April. One will be a guide on making remote [...]
• 2009: Monthly review: March 2009 — <stretch> What a great month! I learned so much. =) From last month: Sort out my paperwork: Almost there. I just [...]
• 2006: In times of weakness — I threw up last night almost six hours after I ate bacon and eggs from a restaurant. Weird that the only [...]
• 2006: Sunlight and weeds — I hitched a ride with a couple of IBMers down to the York Mills subway station today. On the way there, [...]
• 2006: Suddenly free on Friday — Brian’s birthday get-together has been moved to Saturday, so Friday is suddenly free. I think I’ll spend that evening at Graduate [...]
• 2005: Paul Lussier on possible Planner Linux Journal article — I just started getting you blog via rss yesterday, and just read the discussion you had over writing an article on [...]
• 2005: Creating Passionate Users: The importance of seduction and curiosity — “The importance of seduction and curiosity” is another great entry from one of my favorite blogs, Creating Passionate Users. Kathy [...]
• 2004: ARGH! Microsoft Entourage is cool! — While setting up Microsoft Entourage for my mom, I discovered it had funky linking capabilities. Sniff, sniff. There goes the novelty [...]
• 2004: Interesting referrers — - http://nxdomain.org/WelcomePage.php - http://punzki.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/ - http://aadis.de/blog/archives/2004/3/28/planning/ - http://mah.everybody.org/weblog/ - http://www.premrara.com/ - http://aadisht.net/display.php?ulid=2 - http://portal.eatonweb.com/weblog.php?weblog_id=15129 - http://www.livejournal.com/users/jaczie/friends - http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/6943.html - http://www.mouarf.org/blog/index.php/2003/10/27/12-PaquetDebianPourGnuEmacsCvs - http://www.narwhale.org/?node=bm - http://prara.uplug.org/ - http://naesten.stumbleupon.com/
• 2003: The truth about cats and dogs — Kaygee, our otherwise adorable toy poodle, is apparently as insecure as they come. Have my hands full trying to take [...]