Date | Title | Categories |
May 31 |
Learning from Mr. Collins: Practice, conversation, and what to do when someone says something mean |
communication, life |
May 30 |
Seasons and salad days |
cooking |
May 30 |
Made a kitty soap holder |
sewing |
May 29 |
Dealing with a bad calendar week |
geek, kaizen, life |
May 29 |
May 29, 2011: bagels, banana bread, bok choi, bath stuff, and books |
life, sketches |
May 28 |
Weekly review: Weeks ending May 20, 2011 and May 27, 2011 |
weekly |
May 27 |
Developing a workflow with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro |
drawing, sketches, speaking |
May 26 |
Taking a break while working on presentations |
speaking |
May 25 |
The flow of opportunities in a large company |
ibm, work |
May 24 |
Experimenting with standing desks |
geek, kaizen, life |
May 23 |
Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends |
connecting, gardening |
May 22 |
Victoria Day weekend: back to the garden |
gardening |
May 21 |
Notes from the airport: Missed my flight; not the end of the world after all |
travel |
May 21 |
Presentation draft: Mentoring on the Network |
mentoring, presentation, speaking |
May 20 |
Waiting for my Kindle |
geek |
May 20 |
Travel updates: GPS, Pearl Street, Vibram toe shoes |
geek, kaizen, travel |
May 18 |
Ordered a Kindle with free 3G |
geek, kaizen, travel |
May 17 |
Walking outside my comfort zone – bike? push/kick scooter? |
analysis, decision, kaizen, travel |
May 17 |
Finding the bright side of business travel |
travel, work |
May 16 |
Rails: Preserving test data |
development, geek, rails |
May 15 |
Weekly review: Week ending May 13, 2011 |
weekly |
May 14 |
Cattus Petasatus |
learning |
May 13 |
First foray into community-supported agriculture |
cooking, kaizen, life |
May 12 |
Weekly review: Week ending May 6, 2011 |
weekly |
May 11 |
Back from the Netherlands |
family, life |
May 10 |
Rails: Paperclip needs attributes defined by attr_accessible, not just attr_accessor |
development, geek, rails |
May 9 |
On kids and the learning of tangible things |
life |
May 8 |
Condensing requirements into use cases |
ibm, learning, work |
May 7 |
Rails: Exporting data from specific tables into fixtures |
geek, rails |
May 5 |
Tweaking married life for everyday happiness |
life |
May 4 |
On people changing companies |
career, work |
May 3 |
Cucumber, Capybara, and the joys of integration testing in Rails |
geek, rails |
May 2 |
Thoughts from marriage: Learning together |
learning, life |
May 1 |
Negative productivity and learning from oopses |
geek, productivity, tips, work |