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On This Day...

• 2012: Thinking about a visual process library — I had a good conversation with Craig Flynn and Ian Garmaise over bowls of ramen at Kenzo. We talked about [...]
• 2011: Code and circuit for a six-function Arduino-based USB footswitch — I’d been thinking about footswitches for a while, but I held off on buying one because they were expensive. Turns [...]
• 2009: Improv 101: Learning more about characterizations — Improv is so hard! <laugh> It’s a good kind of hard, though. We warmed up with a game of Hotseat, but [...]
• 2008: Work that I love: reflecting on the whats and hows — At the team-building event the other day, I got to meet a number of other people who had been with [...]
• 2008: Mouse woes on Ubuntu Hardy — It’s really quite odd. I’ve tried two USB mice (one wireless, one wired) on my Kubuntu system. They work well… [...]
• 2008: Emacs and W3M: Toggling between work and the Web — Here’s a handy shortcut that toggles between the W3M web browser and other buffers you’re working on. I use it [...]
• 2007: First day of driving lessons — ACK! One full day of lectures! What was I thinking?! Well, I wanted a crash course… I’ve *definitely* outgrown high-school-type education. In other [...]
• 2005: Totally blown away — I attended the 74th Annual Convention of Toastmasters International, and the experience just totally blew me away. The quality of speech was [...]
• 2003: Exim port — firewalled_smtp: driver = smtp port = 1234 firewalled_hosts: driver = lookuphost transport = firewalled_smtp domains = foo1.my.com:foo2.my.com:foo3.my.com