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On This Day...

• 2013: Things I learned from sketchnoting the FITC design conference — FITC hired me to sketchnote the FITC Toronto 2013 conference/festival, which finished yesterday. Since the conference focused on art, design, [...]
• 2012: Visual metaphors: Trust — Click on the image for a larger version. We show trust by shaking hands, and by looking people in the eyes. [...]
• 2011: Monthly review: March 2011 — I found this in my draft folder. Might as well post it! Plans for March: Ah, March. Wrapping up the [...]
• 2010: My cats have been teaching me how to draw — My cats have been teaching me how to draw. I want to learn how to draw well. I want to be [...]
• 2009: Thinking about those newsletters — I sent my test newsletter to 30 people randomly selected from my LinkedIn network. Half the people opened it, half [...]
• 2009: Weekly report: Week ending April 24, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Work on Transition2 some more. Design phase… Share my experiences with delegating illustration Yay! Finish the two blouses I’m [...]
• 2009: Mapping my work happiness — Here’s what makes me happy at work. =) For me, writing and passing test cases is a lot more fun [...]
• 2009: On the practice of happy-do — If you have a clear picture of what makes you happy, it becomes easier to transform things you don’t [...]
• 2007: Writing writing writing — 1455 words so far for the paper due on Thursday. I can do this! Random Emacs symbol: message-citation-line-function – Variable: *Function [...]
• 2007: OFF FOCUS by Lina Rodriguez and Rita Kamacho — Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 7:00 to 10:00 PM The Gladstone Hotel – Second floor 1214 Queen Street West PWYC – Money collected will [...]
• 2005: Index cards for today: Boredom prevention device, Contingency plans, Hipster PDA, Taxi — IndexCards written today: Boredom prevention device My boredom prevention device is a pack of index cards. Whenever I find myself with unexpected [...]
• 2003: Notes about today — education — Quiz took too long. Next time I do an algorithmic thinking quiz, do this in two parts: - identify input, output [...]
• 2003: Thinking like a computer scientist — Dominique Cimafranca pointed me to http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ . Now if only I could teach Python! =)