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On This Day...

• 2013: Emacs chat intro — It turns out to be lots of fun to talk to other people about Emacs. You pick up all sorts [...]
• 2012: Learning how to manage time — One of the things I really like about this business experiment is my new time flexibility. I work on a [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending April 22, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Work on more items for project C – Rails is so awesome! Wrote [...]
• 2010: Forgot my keys; automating memory — I left my keys at home this morning. They were hanging on a hook by the door, and I forgot [...]
• 2010: The problem with personal branding — One of the problems with personal branding is that we tell people that they’re damned if they do and damned [...]
• 2009: Drupal staging and deployment tips: It’s all code — As I talk to more and more developers about practices for working with Drupal, I get the idea that the [...]
• 2009: Mapping what makes me happy — Thinking about what makes you happy is a good way to tweak your life so that you do more of [...]
• 2008: When I grow up, I’m going to present like Steve Jobs — Got this from Presentation Zen, one of my favorite resources on presentation skills: When I grow up, [...]
• 2008: blue horizon 2008: My first IBM keynote! — Aaron Kim, Bernie Michalik, Jennifer Nolan and I gave the keynote presentation at blue horizon 2008, the main conference for [...]
• 2006: Found the CIBC — It’s near the convention center. Just go to the side opposite CHI, cross the street, and enter the Guy Favreau complex. [...]
• 2004: ISC stories: Elimination — I was 12 years old and bored out of my wits in the high school freshman computing class that Hagee Sarmago [...]
• 2004: Short story: SMOKED — “All right, kiddo, cough it up.” She shook her head, mouth clamped shut. Exasperated, he pinched her nose. When she gasped for breath, [...]
• 2004: Deployed scheduler — Suggestions: - Make changing the date easier when creating a new job. - Open job in new window? - Improve design - Deal with [...]
• 2004: Request tracker — My mom would like a way to keep track of tasks not covered by Job Orders. A request tracker would perfect [...]
• 2003: ARGH! Left my power cord! — Silly me. Well, I guess that means I’ll be working on the CS21A breakdown on the Mac and I’ll be sleeping [...]
• 2003: Up the Down Staircase — education — Apparently, Sir Olpoc also loves this book. =) I figured as much by the “Yo, teach!” quote on his website, but [...]
• 2003: Scrabble — Where is Sir Olpoc?
• 2003: Teaching was so much fun! — education — The spaghetti exercise was a big success, as it underscored real-life application of algorithmic thinking. Adding two numbers took a fair amount [...]