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On This Day...

• 2013: Practice Perfect: Calling your shots — Practice Perfect is a book packed with tips for deliberate practice. One of the ideas I’ve been trying from the [...]
• 2012: Thinking about the time/money swap — I thought that once I went into business for myself, I’d do the same kinds of money vs time vs [...]
• 2011: Learning from my mood data — One of the unexpected benefits of switching my phone plan to something that includes unlimited international texting is that I [...]
• 2010: In my dreams of wild success — In my dreams of wild success, I am not an executive, not a manager, not a consultant, not a seller. [...]
• 2009: Weekly report: Week ending April 18, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Work on the next version of Transition2 Did some design and some prototyping Give a talk on making [...]
• 2007: Geek! — W and I were talking about Post-It tape flags when he asked me if he’d shown me his Markham housing map [...]
• 2007: Multi-modal learning — I’ve stepped up my reading in preparation for my paper, practically inhaling research papers and books. It’s easy to copy and [...]
• 2007: Arroz caldo — Not content with figuring out that lasagna automatically makes me warm and fuzzy, W noticed that I often snacked on the [...]
• 2007: Lasagna — One of the pictures I lost when I downloaded to /tmp/pictures instead of ~/tmp/pictures (boo!) was a nicely-lit picture of the [...]
• 2007: Thesis — I showed my thesis prototype to three other researchers at the IBM Toronto Center for Advanced Studies. They all thought it [...]
• 2007: Adventures with J: Rhyme time — J asked me if she could take the Shel Silverstein book I lent her to school tomorrow, because her teacher told [...]
• 2007: Bruised knuckle — The middle knuckle of my right hand is a little darker than the others, and a bit sensitive to the touch. [...]
• 2007: Lost pictures — Note to self: never ever ever ever ever store thing in /tmp ever ever ever again, as Ubuntu is smart and [...]
• 2006: Geek — All I can say is… geek! ;) And to think Marcelle keeps trying to deny his geekiness. Attending a _blogging_ summit? [...]
• 2006: Fruit and crab salad — I remembered having a rather nice Asian salad that included mandarin oranges, so I decided to see what mixing fruits into [...]
• 2006: Amazing — One of the things I love about meeting other people is that they are just mind-bogglingly inspiring. And it’s not that [...]
• 2006: Coder glut in Canada — Then again, things like Life After the Bubble Burst are worth thinking about. Must remember: it’s all about being the right [...]
• 2006: Going dark — If I don’t post a lot between now and May 1, it’s probably because I’m either (a) cramming my reading paper, [...]
• 2004: Scheduler progress — Ahhh. Much hacking done over the weekend. All the browsing parts of the scheduler work. I need to finish installing postgresql [...]