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On This Day...

• 2012: Still working on that shift from services to products — I’ve been in business for four months, hooray! Consulting is going well. I want to learn how to build products, [...]
• 2011: Portal 2 and teachable moments in argument — Portal 2 became an obsession in our household after W- shared with us the Youtube clips of the ending songs, [...]
• 2010: Seven Tips for Short Talks — Regina Zaliznyak asked me to put together a presentation to help IBM’s Extreme Blue interns give better 4-minute pitches to [...]
• 2009: Cultivating enthusiasm — W- turned to J- and asked, “So, why don’t you want to go to summer camp?” “The first reason is that [...]
• 2009: Log your accomplishments — If you’ve ever wondered where the day went, or where the week went, or where the month or year went, [...]
• 2008: Trudge, trudge, trudge — Oh no, I’ve hit the slump. I spent some time working on the Wicked Cool Emacs today. Spam filtering – not [...]
• 2008: Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile — Do you have a professional website, or do you just leave your professional profile up to random Internet search results [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending June 22, 2008 — More Drupal work! This week, I wrapped up the first phase of my project at work. I’m starting to feel [...]
• 2005: Geeks and soft stuff — Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users) was surprised to find that geeks are very interested in learning about “soft” topics like community. I’m [...]
• 2005: Information Design — While reading about presentation skills, I stumbled across a page entitled “So where are all the Information Designers?”. I found [...]
• 2005: Good presentation tips — Five Rules for Better PowerPoint Presentations (from Working Smart) is a great post on presentation skills. Here are his five [...]
• 2004: Potato surprise — The potato surprise mentioned yesterday was actually pretty okay, although I think I should’ve left it in the micro for a minute [...]
• 2004: Tickle Super-IQ test — 131? Hmm. I wonder what questions I got wrong… <muses> The way you think about things makes you a Creative Theorist. [...]
• 2004: Knoppix: The Easiest Way to Get Started with Linux — (Description of talk I’ll deliver at the Philippine Open Source Conference on 2004.08.17 from 15:00 to 17:00) Want to try out Linux without [...]
• 2003: Look into literate programming — Literate programming principles might be the thing I need to make HTML sites with code in them.