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On This Day...

• 2012: Business card kaizen — I’m nearly out of business cards, so it’s time to think about how I want to redesign them. Business cards [...]
• 2011: Thought roundup: Podcasts, drawing, cats, and towels — Here are some bits and pieces that probably won’t end up in their own blog posts, but which I thought [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending October 24, 2010 — Almost back to normal. The freezer is full of lunch portions of rice, chicken, squash, and vegetables. Life is [...]
• 2007: Emacs: The difference between a task and an appointment — For the longest time, I was using my task list to manage my appointments. It was really easy to do that [...]
• 2006: Business is a contact sport — “Business is a Contact Sport” by Tom Richardson, Augusto Vidaurreta, and Tom Gorman (ISBN 0-02-864163-9) makes the case for a dedicated Chief [...]
• 2006: Now that’s how to recruit! — As part of its employee recruitment effort, Adjoined Technologies spent $20 apiece to have “care packages” delivered to 40 IT [...]
• 2006: The magic of helping out — Magic Johnson believed that if he helped everyone around him get what they wanted out of the game, then winning [...]
• 2006: Alumni networks and business networking sites — The Greater IBM Connection My notes from last month’s Greater IBM networking party are in my backpack, just in case I find the [...]
• 2006: Progess report — I’ve been with the IBM Toronto Center for Advanced Studies since February, and it’s time to make a progress report. What [...]
• 2005: Polyphasic sleep and Steve Pavlina — Irine Yu asked me whether I’d follow Steve Pavlina and experiment with polyphasic sleep. I told her I had no [...]
• 2005: Rosa Parks and software freedom — Apartheid. Making people second-class citizens by law. Terrible practice. I’m glad that Rosa Parks stood up (or sat down) for herself when [...]
• 2004: Sites to check out — - http://deb.dip.jp/~nao/d/ - http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~yoyosu/Emacs.html - http://www.yo.rim.or.jp/~nov/d/?date=20041023 - http://www.koka-in.org/~bg66/blog/ - http://home.j00.itscom.net/cake-smd/wiki/MakingOfWikiTech.html
• 2004: GPG-related stuff — A: »ØÌæ¤ò³Îǧ¤·¡¢¸ø³«¸°¤Ë½ð̾¤·¤Þ¤·¤¿¤Î¤ÇźÉÕ¤·¤Þ¤¹¡£ Having checked your fingerprint, I’ve attached the signed public key.