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On This Day...

• 2012: No longer worried about flat tires — My bicycle’s rear wheel has a fast leak. I pumped it up this morning, and by the time I returned [...]
• 2011: Rhetoric and advocacy: the value of a different approach — UPDATE: Changed the title from “the value of the right approach” to “the value of a different approach” – thanks [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending August 1, 2010 — Work [X] Support upcoming workshops [X] Re-use Idea Lab results [X] Launch expertise pilot with SMEs [X] Explore possible expertise specialist [...]
• 2008: Weekly review – week ending Aug 1-ish — This week was about mornings. I successfully switched over to an early-morning schedule, waking up at around 6 in order [...]
• 2007: Can’t help but teach — Learning about learning was how I found out that attitude can make such a difference. In particular, the research on women [...]
• 2007: Plywood boxes — By default, objects created in Second Life are plywood boxes. I’m not really interested in learning how to making these cubes [...]
• 2006: I heart the Toronto Public Library — I can’t believe it took me a year to get around to making the most of the Toronto Public Library. I [...]
• 2006: Pampering myself — Wednesdays are for catching my breath. I spent the evening pampering myself. I lathered my face and wiped the suds off with [...]
• 2006: Meeting about courses — I met with Mark Chignell about the courses I should register for this term. He suggested signing up for all [...]
• 2006: Cross-fertilization — I’d love to take a business-related course to round out my education and widen my network. If I can convince [...]
• 2005: Casualty: portable umbrella — The trouble with me is that I can keep track of only two things at the same time. I’ve told myself [...]
• 2005: Chicken adobo and rice — The clinking and clanking of plates and bric-a-brac could be heard clear across the room as I rummaged through the cupboards. “Are [...]
• 2005: Toastmasters is fun — I attended another Toast I.T. meeting today. The table topic set by Natasha was a bit of a stretch for me. If [...]
• 2005: Side Jobs — Keep track of your freelancing projects with Side Jobs, a free online service that helps you manage tasks and clients. Nice, clean interface [...]
• 2005: In Case of Emergency — A popular e-mail forward urges people to make it easier for people to get in touch with your emergency contact just [...]
• 2005: Lifehacking your groceries — One of the coolest things about having delicious:lifehacks in my inbox is turning up all the craziest lifehacking tips. Today’s treasure is about [...]
• 2004: Japanese test — Whew! The AOTS Japanese test was a diagnostic exam to help them figure out what level we should start classes at [...]
• 2003: Serg’s Tablea — Nice chocolate!
• 2003: http://www.sweetcode.org —
• 2003: http://mygimmick.com — Filipino gimmick-place reviews.
• 2003: Ran is looking for Revolution OS — I know someone in the Philippines has a copy. =)
• 2003: Serg’s Cafe — Met Ran, Eric, Migs Paraz, Ver and William Yu at Serg’s Cafe. The shop has positive geek karma – two stuffed [...]
• 2003: configure-debian — I think configure-debian needs a better front-end. A tree view of packages and a list of all the options, maybe…