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On This Day...

• 2012: Visual book review: The Sketchnote Handbook–Mike Rohde — I know, I know, two visual book reviews in one day. But The Sketchnote Handbook is cool and I just [...]
• 2012: Visual book notes: Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 ways to Out-Innovate the Competition–Stephen M. Shapiro — Here’s my visual summary of Stephen M. Shapiro’s 2011 book Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition [...]
• 2011: 2011 in review — 2011-12-14: Oops! Forgot to make sure the linked image was the original size. Fixed! Also, added a PDF link for [...]
• 2010: XKCD, tic-tac-toe, and fractal goodness — I was delighted to see an analysis of Tic-tac-toe on XKCD. Here is a small part of the remarkable [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending December 10, 2010 — I fell off the wagon of early-morning wakeups. Ah, Angry Birds! I’m going to try a few things to [...]
• 2009: Fall down intentionally — We had circled the ice twice. Hadn’t fallen yet, just wobbled about in the way beginners do. Mel stopped. She [...]
• 2009: Book: Making Work Work —   Making Work Work: New Strategies for Surviving and Thriving at the OfficeJulie Morgenstern, 2004 Making Work Work In every industry I [...]
• 2008: Why automation matters to me — The release engineer working on our Drupal project is happy. He manages the deployment of four Drupal projects (each with [...]
• 2006: Christmas letter prioritization — Hmm. The prospect of sending a Christmas letter / annual report to 500+ people is a little overwhelming. Granted, some of [...]
• 2005: Argh. — Hoping I recover full use of my legs by 7:00, or I won’t be able to make it to the International [...]
• 2004: Evolution as a Planner user — (Posted to emacs-wiki-discuss some time back.) Me, I started by using Planner+Remember to scribble down random thoughts and put them somewhere publishable. [...]
• 2004: On call centers — Nix wrote about his unsavory experience with call center recruitment at http://voidphoenix.blogthing.com/2004/11/23/can-you-smell-the-bs/#comments . The excerpts make me really nervous about what people in [...]
• 2004: Open Source Conference 2005 / Tokyo — ■『オープンソースカンファレンス2005』開催概要 開催日時：2005å¹´3月25日(金)・26日(土) 10:00-17:00 開催場所：日本電子専門学校 7号館（東京・大久保 2004と同じ会場です） 主催：オープンソースカンファレンス実行委員会 OSPN(Open Source People Network) ARGH! I’ll miss it! E-Mail from Hiroshi Miura
• 2004: From Doc Mana: We made it to the finals! — I am very proud to announce that Ateneo de Manila University’s programming team, “Res cogitans”, made it to the ACM International Collegiate [...]
• 2002: From the Philosophy handout just distributed today — “A human being who is weaned from all attachment to internally unstable pursuits such as love, sexual activity, power-seeking, and money-making is [...]