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On This Day...

• 2009: Learning to play the piano — I've been teaching myself how to play the piano, and I really enjoy it. My parents arranged piano lessons for [...]
• 2009: Software reconstruction — Our partners really like the Drupal-based content management system I've been working on, so we might roll it out to [...]
• 2007: More food for thought — http://ittybittyjots.blogspot.com/2005/10/to-stay-or-not.html Random Emacs symbol: gnus-debug - Command: Attempts to go through the Gnus source file and report what variables have been [...]
• 2007: More food for thought — http://ittybittyjots.blogspot.com/2005/10/to-stay-or-not.html Random Emacs symbol: gnus-debug - Command: Attempts to go through the Gnus source file and report what variables have been [...]
• 2007: Knowing people — Carlos Perez wrote: How do you do it? I noticed that you had over 400 linked in contacts. That's [...]
• 2007: Knowing people — Carlos Perez wrote: How do you do it? I noticed that you had over 400 linked in contacts. That's [...]
• 2007: The Reading Solution, and thoughts on education — If you've read my blog posts from the past few weeks, you know that I'm entirely in favor of convincing impressionable [...]
• 2007: The Reading Solution, and thoughts on education — If you've read my blog posts from the past few weeks, you know that I'm entirely in favor of convincing impressionable [...]
• 2007: Quiet time — I keep telling myself that I can't just batch all my writing for my quiet days, but that I have to [...]
• 2007: Quiet time — I keep telling myself that I can't just batch all my writing for my quiet days, but that I have to [...]
• 2006: I'm toast — Or, well, rather, I've finished almost all the toast, and all the cream cheese in the lab fridge. Which is half-okay [...]
• 2006: All kitted out with U of T logowear — It's a good thing that the campus bookstore had a sale on clothing and other school items, as I needed to [...]
• 2006: Tacsiyapo — I love it when I have an idea, and then stumble across its implementation! I blogged (2005.03.23#3) about an anger [...]
• 2005: planner.el goodness — <comfrey_> i spent most of this past weekend reading the elisp manual because planner.el is sucking me in Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... =) On Technorati: [...]
• 2005: Gamasutra article on game dev in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines — A recent Gamasutra article (free registration required) discusses the state of game development in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. It mentions UGotGame [...]
• 2005: planner-el-3.29 — Announcing planner-el-3.29, available at http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/emacs/sacha-stable.tar.gz and deb http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/emacs/planner/ . =) Summary [...]
• 2004: C2 wiki: Patterns for teaching — http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PatternsForTeaching - Goals: Have them and explain them! - Structure courses top-down! - Weave a tight net of understanding! - Concrete before abstract! - Beware [...]
• 2004: Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A primer for nonprofits — Link from Ignatius Hsu on open-source-now-list@redhat.com: Here's a good resource. Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A primer for nonprofits, published by [...]
• 2003: 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers — In-cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE (pending) OCTOBER 21-23, 2003 Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY 10601 http://iswc.net I really wish I could go, but it's [...]
• 2003: Assistive technology and wearable computing — Vito Miliano is also into assistive technology. Vito presented the "Dasher Communicator" recently, and has stuff up at http://www.perilith.com/~vito/dashcomm/
• 2003: Computer accessibility and wearable computing — Panthera Altaica is into wearable computing because of computer accessibility. Hmmm. Interesting. From e-mail: I'm working on a interface that's is basicaly [...]
• 2003: Computer science books — Another must-read, according to Brian Baquiran, is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Full text can be found at http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ .
• 2003: Online CS books — Radam on PLUG linked to http://www.aduni.org/courses/ as a good source of online books for computer science.

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