High school acceptance, yay!
Posted Sun Feb 12 21:11:43 2012

Weekly review: Week ending February 10, 2012
Posted Sat Feb 11 20:00:18 2012

Bridging from intrapreneurship
Posted Fri Feb 10 19:30:00 2012

Drupal 6: Adding color support to your theme
Posted Thu Feb 9 13:00:23 2012

Helping kids build their vocabularies: spell-offs and bedtime stories
Posted Wed Feb 8 08:00:00 2012

Notes from my exit interview with IBM
Posted Tue Feb 7 08:00:00 2012

Learning research skills
Posted Mon Feb 6 08:00:00 2012

Weekly review: Week ending February 3, 2012
Posted Sun Feb 5 08:00:00 2012

What to do when you have a hard time listening to lectures: adapting as a visual learner
Posted Sat Feb 4 12:00:00 2012

Squeezing another project in
Posted Fri Feb 3 08:00:00 2012

Thinking about how to experiment with business and what I might want to do
Posted Thu Feb 2 08:00:00 2012

Notes from the Ontario Science Centre field trip
Posted Wed Feb 1 18:36:54 2012

Mapping out what I’ve learned at IBM
Posted Tue Jan 31 20:21:41 2012

My CSS theming setup
Posted Mon Jan 30 19:07:06 2012

Weekly review: Week ending January 27, 2012
Posted Sun Jan 29 21:30:00 2012

High school application season
Posted Sat Jan 28 08:00:00 2012

Fourteen kids and an impromptu pie party
Posted Thu Jan 26 21:07:15 2012

Setting things in motion
Posted Wed Jan 25 22:30:00 2012

Getting ready for my next experiment!
Posted Tue Jan 24 21:53:59 2012

Thinking about Quantified Awesome, meetups, and DemoCamp
Posted Mon Jan 23 08:00:00 2012

January 22, 2012
Posted Sun Jan 22 19:05:56 2012

Weekly review: Week ending January 20, 2012
Posted Sat Jan 21 12:53:02 2012

Quantified Self Toronto #9
Posted Thu Jan 19 23:05:38 2012

Emacs: Telling external processes about terminal capabilities, and watching over other people’s shoulders
Posted Wed Jan 18 22:06:03 2012

Brainstorming breakdowns, assumptions, and possibilities
Posted Tue Jan 17 18:31:20 2012

January 15, 2012
Posted Sun Jan 15 22:36:07 2012

Weekly review: Week ending January 13, 2012
Posted Sat Jan 14 20:30:00 2012

January 13, 2012
Posted Fri Jan 13 23:30:00 2012

Work, extracurriculars, and measuring time: an epiphany
Posted Thu Jan 12 18:49:29 2012

Tip: Use visibility to motivate new habits
Posted Wed Jan 11 08:00:00 2012

Things I want to learn more about through work
Posted Tue Jan 10 20:10:43 2012

Making good progress on theming the site
Posted Mon Jan 9 21:27:43 2012

Moving time around
Posted Sun Jan 8 19:30:00 2012

Weekly review: Week ending January 6, 2012
Posted Sat Jan 7 17:50:10 2012

LEGO and Indiana Jones: nuking the fridge got a lot more fun
Posted Fri Jan 6 20:49:08 2012

Thinking about reviewing archives
Posted Thu Jan 5 08:00:00 2012

Quantified Awesome: Squishing my excuses
Posted Wed Jan 4 08:00:00 2012

CSS theming, magnification, and foot pedals
Posted Tue Jan 3 21:00:00 2012

Quantified Awesome: Community-supported agriculture with Plan B Organic Farms, fall 2011
Posted Mon Jan 2 08:00:00 2012

Weekly review: Week ending December 30, 2011
Posted Sun Jan 1 08:00:00 2012

Figuring out my CSS workflow
Posted Sat Dec 31 08:00:00 2011

Learning from CSS tweaking
Posted Fri Dec 30 08:00:00 2011

Yay more food containers!
Posted Thu Dec 29 19:41:16 2011

Reducing clutter in the kitchen
Posted Wed Dec 28 20:05:21 2011

How I used the 5-day holiday
Posted Tue Dec 27 18:30:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: Building my own time tracker
Posted Mon Dec 26 14:30:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending December 23, 2011
Posted Sun Dec 25 20:00:00 2011

Getting through the beige days
Posted Sat Dec 24 08:00:00 2011

Investing in awesomeness
Posted Fri Dec 23 14:30:00 2011

Comparing Plan B Organic Farms with Cooper’s Farm CSA
Posted Thu Dec 22 21:00:00 2011

Getting ready for the next project
Posted Wed Dec 21 11:45:59 2011

Rails experiences: Things I learned from project O
Posted Tue Dec 20 08:00:00 2011

Decision review: Decision review
Posted Mon Dec 19 08:00:00 2011

Monthly review: November 2011
Posted Sun Dec 18 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending December 16, 2011
Posted Sat Dec 17 11:30:00 2011

Emacs, artbollocks-mode.el, and writing more clearly
Posted Fri Dec 16 08:00:00 2011

Learning plans and time budgets: packing things into 2012
Posted Thu Dec 15 08:00:00 2011

Growing as a developer: Automated tests
Posted Wed Dec 14 08:00:00 2011

Reviewing my archives
Posted Tue Dec 13 21:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: Thinking about what I want to build next
Posted Mon Dec 12 19:00:00 2011

2011 in review
Posted Sun Dec 11 16:44:08 2011

Weekly review: Week ending December 9, 2011
Posted Sat Dec 10 12:58:56 2011

Blog analysis for 2011: 173,363 words so far; also, using the Rails console to work with WordPress
Posted Fri Dec 9 17:06:20 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 15): Tools to help you get started
Posted Thu Dec 8 08:00:00 2011

Geek tidbits: Postfix configuration for development and testing
Posted Wed Dec 7 08:00:00 2011

Busy, busy, busy week
Posted Tue Dec 6 08:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: How I’m starting to use Tap Log for Android
Posted Mon Dec 5 20:39:08 2011

Clearing out the basement
Posted Sun Dec 4 10:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending December 2, 2011
Posted Sat Dec 3 14:00:00 2011

Upcoming decision: Considering different cellphone plans for J-
Posted Fri Dec 2 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 14): Writing for yourself and writing for others
Posted Thu Dec 1 08:00:00 2011

Things I’m learning from tracking
Posted Wed Nov 30 12:00:00 2011

Rails experiences: Building an interactive tutorial
Posted Tue Nov 29 10:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: 116 web resources for Quantified Self
Posted Mon Nov 28 08:00:00 2011

Thoughts from helping with homework
Posted Sun Nov 27 10:06:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending November 25, 2011
Posted Sat Nov 26 13:00:00 2011

Decision review: Scheduling posts and using themes
Posted Fri Nov 25 07:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 13): On frequency
Posted Thu Nov 24 08:00:00 2011

Ruby on Rails: Extending ActiveRecord::Base to define your own ActiveRecord association methods
Posted Wed Nov 23 08:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: Why I track
Posted Mon Nov 21 08:00:00 2011

Learning how to model with Google Sketchup
Posted Sun Nov 20 13:03:23 2011

Weekly review: Week ending November 18, 2011
Posted Sat Nov 19 09:30:00 2011

Decision review: Lenovo X220 tablet PC (with graphs!)
Posted Fri Nov 18 07:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 12): Two homes
Posted Thu Nov 17 08:00:00 2011

Massages, physical feedback, and behaviour modification
Posted Wed Nov 16 08:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: A place for everything, and everything in its place
Posted Mon Nov 14 08:00:00 2011

Stories from the trip: Terminal 3
Posted Sun Nov 13 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending November 11, 2011; thinking about the temptation to work
Posted Sat Nov 12 09:34:46 2011

Decision review: Metropass instead of biking to work in November
Posted Fri Nov 11 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 11): Looking back at the year
Posted Thu Nov 10 08:00:00 2011

Thinking about how to get even better at bulk-cooking
Posted Wed Nov 9 08:00:00 2011

Visualization resources
Posted Tue Nov 8 07:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: How much music do you have?
Posted Mon Nov 7 08:00:00 2011

Monthly review: October 2011
Posted Sun Nov 6 07:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: Development-driven behaviour and integrated tests for life
Posted Sat Nov 5 21:30:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending November 4, 2011
Posted Sat Nov 5 08:00:00 2011

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (abd62d39-d988-4dc5-90f2-7381b177f74b – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)
Posted Fri Nov 4 18:55:25 2011

Decision review: Cat boarding
Posted Fri Nov 4 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 10): Difficult situations
Posted Thu Nov 3 08:00:00 2011

Planning an Emacs-based personal wiki – Org? Muse? Hmm…
Posted Wed Nov 2 08:00:00 2011

Quantified Awesome: Data from waking up 3 hours earlier than normal
Posted Mon Oct 31 08:00:00 2011

Stories from our trip: Furry caterpillar
Posted Sun Oct 30 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending October 28, 2011
Posted Sat Oct 29 13:00:00 2011

Decision review: Switching from Rackspace Cloud to Linode
Posted Fri Oct 28 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 9): Learning from others
Posted Thu Oct 27 08:00:00 2011

Practising drawing: variations on a theme
Posted Wed Oct 26 08:00:00 2011

Geek travel update: Mostly as planned
Posted Mon Oct 24 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending October 21, 2011
Posted Sun Oct 23 08:00:00 2011

Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto Oct 21 2011
Posted Sat Oct 22 13:29:35 2011

Stories from the trip: Making my peace with endings
Posted Sat Oct 22 08:00:00 2011

Figuring out how to plan for a month
Posted Fri Oct 21 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 8): Slow life down and speed it up
Posted Thu Oct 20 08:00:00 2011

Jetlag-assisted early days
Posted Wed Oct 19 08:00:00 2011

From the feeds: Writing, more writing, journalism, and automation
Posted Tue Oct 18 08:00:00 2011

Monthly review: September 2011
Posted Mon Oct 17 08:00:00 2011

Passioneer survey (Submit your answers by Oct 18)
Posted Sun Oct 16 10:30:00 2011

Weekly review: Weeks ending October 7 and October 14, 2011
Posted Sun Oct 16 08:00:00 2011

The joys of development with Selenium web-testing
Posted Sat Oct 15 08:00:00 2011

Decision review: Working at IBM
Posted Fri Oct 14 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 7): Learning how to write
Posted Thu Oct 13 08:00:00 2011

Working with FTP sites
Posted Wed Oct 12 08:00:00 2011

From the feeds: Ramen, personal assistants, productivity, co-schooling, and being yourself
Posted Tue Oct 11 08:00:00 2011

Geek travel: Planning outfits using matrices
Posted Mon Oct 10 08:00:00 2011

Monitoring multiple WordPress sites for comments using Yahoo Pipes
Posted Sun Oct 9 08:00:00 2011

Tweaking my Windows 7 setup more: Emacs on all virtual desktops!
Posted Sat Oct 8 08:00:00 2011

Decision review: Marrying W-
Posted Fri Oct 7 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 6): Looking back
Posted Thu Oct 6 08:00:00 2011

Learning browser-based testing with Selenium
Posted Wed Oct 5 08:00:00 2011

From the feeds: Saving money, making money, balancing life, reading books, and making rainbows
Posted Tue Oct 4 08:00:00 2011

Tracking and organizing my clothes: substituting mathematics for fashion sense
Posted Mon Oct 3 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending September 30, 2011
Posted Sun Oct 2 08:00:00 2011

It turns out that “I suck” moments are more negotiable than I thought
Posted Sat Oct 1 08:00:00 2011

Converted my Arduino foot pedal into a Teensy foot pedal!
Posted Fri Sep 30 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 5): Getting started
Posted Thu Sep 29 08:00:00 2011

Getting better at working at the office
Posted Wed Sep 28 08:00:00 2011

From the feeds: entrepreneurship, teaching, biking, riding
Posted Tue Sep 27 08:00:00 2011

Quantified: How I spent seven weeks
Posted Mon Sep 26 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending September 23, 2011
Posted Sun Sep 25 08:00:00 2011

Batch cooking, community-supported agriculture, and gardening
Posted Sat Sep 24 08:00:00 2011

Working with the Editorial Calendar plugin for WordPress; on scheduling posts
Posted Fri Sep 23 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 4): Parenting
Posted Thu Sep 22 08:00:00 2011

Planning for currency conversion
Posted Wed Sep 21 08:00:00 2011

Update on typing: Added AutoCorrect hotkey script, now clocking in at 118wpm
Posted Tue Sep 20 08:00:00 2011

IBM Comic: Watson on helpdesk duty; variants
Posted Mon Sep 19 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending September 16, 2011
Posted Sun Sep 18 08:00:00 2011

Monthly review: June, July, and August 2011
Posted Sat Sep 17 23:22:50 2011

Back to school, back to study groups
Posted Sat Sep 17 08:00:00 2011

Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history
Posted Fri Sep 16 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 3): Blogging and other social tools
Posted Thu Sep 15 15:00:00 2011

Free Geek Toronto: Notes from the build session
Posted Wed Sep 14 08:00:00 2011

Deliberate practice, typing faster, and Emacs
Posted Tue Sep 13 08:00:00 2011

Thinking about getting better at decisions
Posted Mon Sep 12 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending September 9, 2011
Posted Sun Sep 11 08:00:00 2011

Tweaking the fingerprint settings on my Lenovo X220T
Posted Sat Sep 10 08:00:00 2011

Dusting off my Sony Vaio U1
Posted Fri Sep 9 08:00:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 2): Growing into blogging
Posted Thu Sep 8 08:00:00 2011

Decision: Not getting an Ontario Science Centre family membership
Posted Wed Sep 7 08:00:00 2011

Drupal: Finding nodes through autocomplete
Posted Tue Sep 6 10:17:00 2011

Thinking about improving our freezer use
Posted Mon Sep 5 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending September 2, 2011
Posted Sun Sep 4 08:00:00 2011

Starting up my experiments in delegation again; the difference between what I want to do and what I want to see
Posted Sat Sep 3 11:30:00 2011

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (f44201b9-d87d-4850-ac0c-79ad8db8d9c5 – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)
Posted Sat Sep 3 10:36:33 2011

Notes on transcription with and without a foot pedal
Posted Fri Sep 2 17:45:00 2011

Transcript: Blogging (Part 1): Blogging and introverts
Posted Thu Sep 1 08:00:00 2011

Getting rid of the “I can’t draw”s
Posted Wed Aug 31 08:00:00 2011

Batch cooking
Posted Tue Aug 30 08:00:00 2011

Drupal debugging story: Rules defined in multiple Features
Posted Mon Aug 29 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending August 27, 2011
Posted Sun Aug 28 08:00:00 2011

Code and circuit for a six-function Arduino-based USB footswitch
Posted Sat Aug 27 08:00:00 2011

Practising drawing
Posted Fri Aug 26 08:00:00 2011

Mailing non-Emacs users your Org notes
Posted Fri Aug 26 08:00:00 2011

Re-setting up my computer
Posted Thu Aug 25 08:00:00 2011

How to set up more frequent merge replications in SQL Server 2000
Posted Wed Aug 24 08:00:00 2011

Built a USB foot pedal using the Arduino Uno
Posted Tue Aug 23 08:00:00 2011

“Hello, Monday!” comic series launched on IBM intranet home page; now I’m a comic artist!
Posted Mon Aug 22 12:10:12 2011

Thinking about outsourcing transcription or doing it myself
Posted Mon Aug 22 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending August 19, 2011
Posted Sun Aug 21 08:00:00 2011

Kids’ cartoons and learning piano
Posted Sat Aug 20 08:00:00 2011

Git bisect and reversing a mistaken patch
Posted Fri Aug 19 08:00:00 2011

Thinking my way through a tough MS SQL Server 2000 replication problem
Posted Thu Aug 18 08:00:00 2011

Session follow-up #1: Discovering Yourself through Blogging
Posted Wed Aug 17 08:00:00 2011

Discovering Yourself through Blogging (free teleconference Aug 16, 6 PM PDT, 9 PM EDT, 9 AM Philippine time)
Posted Tue Aug 16 08:00:00 2011

Volunteer notes: Free Geek Toronto
Posted Mon Aug 15 08:00:00 2011

Reflections on creativity
Posted Sun Aug 14 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending August 12, 2011
Posted Sat Aug 13 09:33:50 2011

Living an awesome life as a 27-year-old: a year in blog posts
Posted Fri Aug 12 09:33:14 2011

Thinking about blogging and planning ahead
Posted Thu Aug 11 07:29:00 2011

Lessons learned from project M
Posted Wed Aug 10 17:08:00 2011

Decision: Piano lessons?
Posted Tue Aug 9 20:25:00 2011

Drupal: Overriding Drupal autocompletion to pass more parameters
Posted Mon Aug 8 19:16:00 2011

Jalapeño jelly
Posted Sun Aug 7 23:46:55 2011

Weekly review: Week ending August 5, 2011; thoughts on discretionary time
Posted Sat Aug 6 20:59:25 2011

Drupal, HTML Purifier, and embedding IFRAMES from YouTube
Posted Fri Aug 5 16:34:00 2011

Drupal and JQuery 1.5: Fixing the JSON encoding of ampersands
Posted Thu Aug 4 14:01:00 2011

Learning by imitation: getting inspired by Exploding Dog
Posted Wed Aug 3 20:40:21 2011

Rhetoric and advocacy: the value of a different approach
Posted Tue Aug 2 23:47:07 2011

Looking back at life as a 27-year-old
Posted Mon Aug 1 23:18:40 2011

Weekly review: Week ending July 31, 2011
Posted Mon Aug 1 00:47:53 2011

Software and making pots
Posted Sun Jul 31 08:00:00 2011

Mornings at our house
Posted Sat Jul 30 19:26:41 2011

Long weekend ahead
Posted Fri Jul 29 20:59:56 2011

Piano lesson week 2
Posted Thu Jul 28 21:06:31 2011

Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto meetup: Conferences, pollution sensing, and growing old at home
Posted Wed Jul 27 23:53:19 2011

Weekly review: Week ending July 24, 2011
Posted Mon Jul 25 22:37:09 2011

Public transit day
Posted Sun Jul 24 22:00:08 2011

Rhetoric and the Manila Zoo; reflections on conversations and a request for insight
Posted Sat Jul 23 08:00:00 2011

Starting piano again
Posted Fri Jul 22 08:00:00 2011

Dealing with a heat wave in Toronto
Posted Wed Jul 20 21:20:25 2011

Weekly review: Week ending July 16, 2011
Posted Wed Jul 20 13:14:30 2011

Dealing with web development and stress
Posted Tue Jul 19 21:28:36 2011

Piano lessons
Posted Mon Jul 18 21:20:14 2011

An elephant love story: Real stories of Manila Zoo
Posted Sun Jul 17 10:12:00 2011

Cake was not a lie
Posted Sat Jul 16 22:00:46 2011

A zucchini a day keeps the vegetable drawer okay
Posted Fri Jul 15 23:06:02 2011

The first blueberries from our garden
Posted Thu Jul 14 08:34:59 2011

Love, web development, and imaginary friends
Posted Wed Jul 13 20:18:07 2011

On cherry tomatoes, frugality, and wanting
Posted Tue Jul 12 17:05:00 2011

Monthly review: June 2011
Posted Mon Jul 11 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Two weeks ending July 9, 2011
Posted Sun Jul 10 11:35:51 2011

Thinking about activities to share with others
Posted Sat Jul 9 09:03:18 2011

In an imperfect world
Posted Fri Jul 8 08:00:28 2011

Planning for summer
Posted Wed Jul 6 18:21:25 2011

Hacking Drupal views and taxonomy: looking for 100% matching of terms
Posted Wed Jul 6 08:45:27 2011

Organizing my digital life
Posted Tue Jul 5 08:21:11 2011

Embracing Pollyanna
Posted Mon Jul 4 05:31:00 2011

Fifty kilometers on my bicycle
Posted Sun Jul 3 20:25:00 2011

Getting a grip on a large database migration
Posted Sat Jul 2 08:00:00 2011

How I organize my personal finances
Posted Fri Jul 1 13:38:00 2011

Four-day weekend ahead
Posted Fri Jul 1 12:06:00 2011

Context-switching and a four-project day
Posted Thu Jun 30 16:19:00 2011

Meaning and acknowledgement
Posted Wed Jun 29 20:44:27 2011

Drupal notes from helping a client improve her development environment
Posted Tue Jun 28 08:55:00 2011

Learning from the speeches of grade seven students
Posted Mon Jun 27 21:36:00 2011

Writing your way past “What have I been doing with my life?”
Posted Sun Jun 26 23:16:41 2011

Weekly review: Week ending June 25, 2011
Posted Sat Jun 25 23:20:13 2011

Strawberry rhubarb baking
Posted Sat Jun 25 21:00:37 2011

Mindful spending, experiments, and living in line with your values
Posted Fri Jun 24 20:41:16 2011

Portal 2
Posted Thu Jun 23 20:15:00 2011

Portal 2 and teachable moments in argument
Posted Wed Jun 22 21:21:00 2011

(500) days of salad
Posted Tue Jun 21 17:12:20 2011

Switching back to Linux as my development host
Posted Mon Jun 20 20:24:15 2011

Thinking about speaking topics
Posted Sun Jun 19 11:14:18 2011

Weekly review: Week ending June 18, 2011
Posted Sat Jun 18 20:52:09 2011

An abundance of cilantro, now freezing in cubes; strawberries and peas
Posted Sat Jun 18 10:23:37 2011

Gardening notes: Cut-and-come-again lettuce
Posted Fri Jun 17 16:36:03 2011

Getting the hang of community-supported agriculture
Posted Thu Jun 16 20:06:24 2011

Personal projects
Posted Thu Jun 16 08:25:00 2011

Make-ahead meals
Posted Wed Jun 15 20:33:00 2011

Kaizen in the little things: The way the door opens
Posted Tue Jun 14 21:54:05 2011

Cook Or Die Season II: Community-Supported Agriculture
Posted Tue Jun 14 19:27:00 2011

Decision review: Kitchen counter computing (ad hoc standing desk)
Posted Mon Jun 13 20:03:17 2011

This is what my blog looks like on paper
Posted Mon Jun 13 18:16:55 2011

Getting things ready for the next week: cooking and gardening
Posted Sun Jun 12 21:01:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending June 11, 2011
Posted Sat Jun 11 23:02:20 2011

Managing configuration changes in Drupal
Posted Fri Jun 10 11:00:00 2011

Sketchnotes from Democamp Toronto 29, June 2011
Posted Thu Jun 9 22:44:24 2011

Drush, Simpletest, and continuous integration for Drupal using Jenkins (previously Hudson)
Posted Thu Jun 9 09:51:00 2011

Thinking about our development practices
Posted Wed Jun 8 09:00:30 2011

Negative optimization
Posted Tue Jun 7 16:19:00 2011

Made a stuff sack for J-
Posted Mon Jun 6 21:54:57 2011

Plans for summer: Relationships, work, gardening, biking, drawing and photography, making, and finances
Posted Mon Jun 6 10:15:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending June 3, 2011
Posted Sun Jun 5 21:16:58 2011

Bike ride in the rain
Posted Sat Jun 4 13:08:33 2011

Decision review: calendars, development, standing desks, toe shoes, Kindle, bike, CSA, Autodesk Sketchbook, blogging
Posted Sat Jun 4 08:00:00 2011

Monthly reviews: April and May 2011
Posted Fri Jun 3 08:00:00 2011

It’s Bike Month in Toronto!
Posted Thu Jun 2 08:00:00 2011

Hungry hungry compost and other garden updates
Posted Wed Jun 1 09:27:20 2011

VMWare, Samba, Eclipse, and XDebug: Mixing a virtual Linux environment with a Microsoft Windows development environment
Posted Wed Jun 1 08:00:00 2011

Learning from Mr. Collins: Practice, conversation, and what to do when someone says something mean
Posted Tue May 31 12:18:00 2011

Seasons and salad days
Posted Mon May 30 13:06:00 2011

Made a kitty soap holder
Posted Mon May 30 08:00:00 2011

Dealing with a bad calendar week
Posted Sun May 29 22:28:00 2011

May 29, 2011: bagels, banana bread, bok choi, bath stuff, and books
Posted Sun May 29 20:19:58 2011

Weekly review: Weeks ending May 20, 2011 and May 27, 2011
Posted Sat May 28 21:12:55 2011

Developing a workflow with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
Posted Fri May 27 18:52:00 2011

Taking a break while working on presentations
Posted Thu May 26 16:55:53 2011

The flow of opportunities in a large company
Posted Wed May 25 14:33:32 2011

Experimenting with standing desks
Posted Tue May 24 21:01:00 2011

Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends
Posted Mon May 23 17:35:00 2011

Victoria Day weekend: back to the garden
Posted Sun May 22 19:13:00 2011

Notes from the airport: Missed my flight; not the end of the world after all
Posted Sat May 21 13:00:00 2011

Presentation draft: Mentoring on the Network
Posted Sat May 21 08:00:00 2011

Waiting for my Kindle
Posted Fri May 20 08:20:11 2011

Travel updates: GPS, Pearl Street, Vibram toe shoes
Posted Fri May 20 01:15:26 2011

Ordered a Kindle with free 3G
Posted Wed May 18 18:09:00 2011

Walking outside my comfort zone – bike? push/kick scooter?
Posted Tue May 17 10:37:00 2011

Finding the bright side of business travel
Posted Tue May 17 08:00:00 2011

Rails: Preserving test data
Posted Mon May 16 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending May 13, 2011
Posted Sun May 15 09:18:00 2011

Cattus Petasatus
Posted Sat May 14 08:00:09 2011

First foray into community-supported agriculture
Posted Fri May 13 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending May 6, 2011
Posted Thu May 12 08:00:19 2011

Back from the Netherlands
Posted Wed May 11 06:19:08 2011

Rails: Paperclip needs attributes defined by attr_accessible, not just attr_accessor
Posted Tue May 10 08:00:00 2011

On kids and the learning of tangible things
Posted Mon May 9 08:00:00 2011

Condensing requirements into use cases
Posted Sun May 8 08:00:30 2011

Rails: Exporting data from specific tables into fixtures
Posted Sat May 7 08:00:00 2011

Tweaking married life for everyday happiness
Posted Thu May 5 08:00:00 2011

On people changing companies
Posted Wed May 4 08:00:00 2011

Cucumber, Capybara, and the joys of integration testing in Rails
Posted Tue May 3 08:00:21 2011

Thoughts from marriage: Learning together
Posted Mon May 2 08:00:00 2011

Negative productivity and learning from oopses
Posted Sun May 1 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending April 29, 2011
Posted Sat Apr 30 11:28:14 2011

"An Easy Method for Beginners in Latin" and macron-insensitive search for Tiddlywiki
Posted Sat Apr 30 08:00:00 2011

Study group: Flashcards and the Leitner method
Posted Fri Apr 29 08:00:00 2011

Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference
Posted Thu Apr 28 14:47:00 2011

Remote training that rocks
Posted Thu Apr 28 08:00:00 2011

The enemy of your enemy is your friend: mnemonics and negative integers
Posted Wed Apr 27 08:00:00 2011

Stuff or experiences
Posted Tue Apr 26 08:00:00 2011

Writing macrons in Linux for Latin pronunciation
Posted Mon Apr 25 08:00:00 2011

Monthly review: March 2011
Posted Sat Apr 23 22:12:09 2011

Weekly review: Week ending April 22, 2011
Posted Sat Apr 23 09:37:18 2011

Back in the garden, the perennials are coming back
Posted Fri Apr 22 08:00:00 2011

Mr. Fluffers: Stray or not stray?
Posted Thu Apr 21 08:00:00 2011

Compost magic and happiness
Posted Wed Apr 20 08:00:44 2011

Making better use of travel time
Posted Tue Apr 19 08:00:48 2011

Learning from my mood data
Posted Mon Apr 18 08:00:00 2011

Study group update: negative numbers, exponents, and awesomeness
Posted Sun Apr 17 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending April 15, 2011
Posted Sat Apr 16 20:38:19 2011

Three cat life
Posted Fri Apr 15 08:00:00 2011

Using behavioural economics to motivate yourself when working on risky projects
Posted Thu Apr 14 08:00:29 2011

Still cold? Wear a hat to bed
Posted Wed Apr 13 08:00:00 2011

Math study group: Positive and negative numbers
Posted Tue Apr 12 08:00:00 2011

On developing a reputation for project work
Posted Mon Apr 11 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending April 8, 2011
Posted Sun Apr 10 08:00:39 2011

Writing more about life
Posted Sat Apr 9 22:09:00 2011

Decision review: Battery
Posted Fri Apr 8 20:06:00 2011

Spousonomics: Using economics to master love, marriage, and dirty dishes
Posted Thu Apr 7 12:20:01 2011

Why we use more than math textbooks and general-purpose resources
Posted Wed Apr 6 17:43:37 2011

Helping kids learn algebra
Posted Tue Apr 5 09:05:40 2011

Setting up Ruby on Rails on a Redhat Enterprise Linux Rackspace Cloud Server
Posted Mon Apr 4 11:06:00 2011

The Busy Person’s Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers)
Posted Mon Apr 4 10:04:06 2011

Starting up our garden
Posted Sun Apr 3 08:54:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending April 1, 2011
Posted Sat Apr 2 10:16:45 2011

Running the Selenium IDE testing plugin with Firefox 4
Posted Fri Apr 1 12:21:00 2011

Quid est nōmen tuum? Nōmen meum est “Sacha”
Posted Thu Mar 31 20:35:00 2011

Becoming a faster developer
Posted Thu Mar 31 11:11:18 2011

More thoughts on time analysis: correlations and revealed preferences
Posted Tue Mar 29 21:54:00 2011

Helping kids learn about automation
Posted Tue Mar 29 21:09:00 2011

On typing in Dvorak
Posted Mon Mar 28 21:47:00 2011

Filling in the learning gaps
Posted Sun Mar 27 22:31:15 2011

Weekly review: Week ending March 25, 2011
Posted Sat Mar 26 21:47:43 2011

The three argumenteers
Posted Wed Mar 23 22:07:28 2011

Shanghaippy birthday, John Grimme! Recipe: Lumpiang shanghai
Posted Tue Mar 22 22:03:41 2011

Learning more about Websphere and web service development
Posted Mon Mar 21 20:03:00 2011

Pirate kitties
Posted Mon Mar 21 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending March 18, 2011
Posted Sun Mar 20 19:47:16 2011

Spring!
Posted Sat Mar 19 23:10:50 2011

Cats: 0, toilet paper monster: 1; also, ArtRage and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
Posted Fri Mar 18 21:32:59 2011

Decision trees and self-challenges: how my laptop’s recent battery failure is a great excuse to think
Posted Thu Mar 17 23:14:00 2011

Thinking about a developer setup template
Posted Wed Mar 16 08:00:00 2011

Recipes: Coconut cocktail bun recipe
Posted Tue Mar 15 00:08:00 2011

Continuing experiments with Slideshare’s Zipcast web conferences
Posted Mon Mar 14 23:07:10 2011

Coconut buns and the economics of home awesomeness
Posted Mon Mar 14 08:00:00 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others
Posted Sun Mar 13 09:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending March 11, 2011
Posted Sat Mar 12 10:44:58 2011

Math and energy
Posted Fri Mar 11 20:56:00 2011

Trying MemoLane (social timeline)
Posted Thu Mar 10 21:08:57 2011

Leveling up as a developer!
Posted Wed Mar 9 16:51:00 2011

Quick notes from Emacs Org-mode talk at GTALUG
Posted Tue Mar 8 23:40:00 2011

Can’t see cross-domain images in your Flash file? Make a crossdomain.xml
Posted Tue Mar 8 08:01:00 2011

Monthly review: February 2011
Posted Sun Mar 6 17:54:30 2011

Weekly review: Week ending March 4, 2011
Posted Sat Mar 5 14:50:50 2011

Presentation experiment: Shy Connector, Six Steps to Sharing, and other presentations in March!
Posted Sat Mar 5 10:09:00 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business
Posted Fri Mar 4 10:40:20 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, part V: Communication Matters
Posted Tue Mar 1 19:46:58 2011

Dealing with intimidating projects
Posted Tue Mar 1 16:26:00 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People
Posted Mon Feb 28 13:07:53 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, part III: Sharing Makes the Blog Go ‘Round
Posted Sat Feb 26 19:14:24 2011

Weekly review: Week ending February 25, 2011
Posted Sat Feb 26 16:31:00 2011

Trying out Slideshare’s new Zipcast feature
Posted Fri Feb 25 20:24:14 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, part II: The Compounding Value of an Archive
Posted Fri Feb 25 08:00:00 2011

Get More Value from Blogging, part I: The Immediate Benefits of Thought
Posted Thu Feb 24 09:58:29 2011

Posted revised “Remote Presentations That Rock” presentation
Posted Wed Feb 23 17:54:50 2011

Kaizen: Thinking about presentations
Posted Tue Feb 22 10:23:17 2011

How I spent my Family Day weekend
Posted Tue Feb 22 08:00:00 2011

ITSC guide to conference awesomeness
Posted Mon Feb 21 14:55:00 2011

Waking up: looking at my data
Posted Sun Feb 20 11:48:43 2011

Weekly review: Week ending February 18, 2011
Posted Sat Feb 19 12:53:12 2011

Decision review: Limiting my blog to one post a day
Posted Sat Feb 19 12:13:24 2011

LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL
Posted Fri Feb 18 20:23:00 2011

Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters
Posted Fri Feb 18 18:26:00 2011

On friendship and becoming more social
Posted Fri Feb 18 01:50:00 2011

Imagine success for social media
Posted Wed Feb 16 08:13:54 2011

From zero to hero: a newbie’s guide to learning and building a reputation along the way
Posted Wed Feb 16 08:00:00 2011

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Webinar: Energy, Interaction, and ROI
Posted Tue Feb 15 02:58:00 2011

More about getting 27″ washers and dryers down 26″ hallways
Posted Mon Feb 14 08:40:00 2011

On presenting, anxiety, and moving forward
Posted Mon Feb 14 08:01:00 2011

On friendship and getting better at it
Posted Sun Feb 13 09:46:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending February 11, 2011
Posted Sat Feb 12 15:43:47 2011

Books to write
Posted Fri Feb 11 08:41:00 2011

Hackbuzzbuzzbuzz
Posted Thu Feb 10 19:07:00 2011

Thinking about personal random moment studies
Posted Wed Feb 9 10:58:00 2011

Things to write about: questions for your blogger’s block
Posted Wed Feb 9 06:01:00 2011

Working on estimates
Posted Mon Feb 7 21:52:00 2011

Disagreement and the road to trusting yourself
Posted Sun Feb 6 23:05:00 2011

Monthly review: January 2011
Posted Sun Feb 6 08:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending February 4, 2011
Posted Sat Feb 5 10:50:09 2011

On appearance and bias: thoughts from the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011
Posted Sat Feb 5 08:40:00 2011

A story of pi
Posted Fri Feb 4 22:31:00 2011

Lotusphere 2011 wrap-up
Posted Fri Feb 4 20:02:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending January 28, 2011
Posted Sat Jan 29 17:58:04 2011

Pre-conference networking tips for the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference
Posted Fri Jan 28 10:43:16 2011

A braindump of tips for other new immigrants from the Philippines
Posted Thu Jan 27 22:40:00 2011

Draft Lotusphere BoF on working with the Connections API
Posted Wed Jan 26 21:39:34 2011

Cross-posting between Lotus Connections blogs and a personal blog
Posted Wed Jan 26 08:00:00 2011

Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination
Posted Tue Jan 25 15:45:00 2011

Unbaffled
Posted Mon Jan 24 23:18:08 2011

Sketches: What index cards are teaching me about drawing
Posted Sun Jan 23 22:21:06 2011

Weekly review: Week ending January 21, 2011
Posted Sat Jan 22 01:05:41 2011

Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto meetup #3
Posted Fri Jan 21 10:25:55 2011

Monthly review: December 2010
Posted Thu Jan 20 08:00:39 2011

Fun and rational economic theory: reflections on the book “The Logic of Life”
Posted Wed Jan 19 06:20:00 2011

Of recipes and memories
Posted Tue Jan 18 07:27:27 2011

Sketchnotes: Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project book tour
Posted Mon Jan 17 20:53:07 2011

Batch baking for fun and awesomeness
Posted Mon Jan 17 08:00:00 2011

Switched my Fido plan
Posted Sun Jan 16 20:21:00 2011

Emacs 24 and the package manager
Posted Sat Jan 15 11:00:00 2011

Weekly review: Week ending January 14, 2011
Posted Sat Jan 15 08:00:00 2011

13,705 steps and counting
Posted Fri Jan 14 19:14:00 2011

Book: Let’s Get Real About Money: Profit from the Habits of the Best Personal Finance Managers
Posted Thu Jan 13 16:22:00 2011

Three tips for cheerful chores
Posted Wed Jan 12 19:38:00 2011

Wrapping up projects and preparing for the next one
Posted Tue Jan 11 16:24:58 2011

Work on the business from the outside, not in it – Book: Effortless entrepreneur
Posted Mon Jan 10 14:27:00 2011

Snippets from life
Posted Sun Jan 9 20:52:34 2011

Weekly review: Week ending January 7, 2011
Posted Sat Jan 8 08:00:09 2011

Emacs, BBDB, and getting your contacts on the Android or iPhone
Posted Fri Jan 7 15:59:14 2011

Moving my book notes online
Posted Thu Jan 6 18:49:52 2011

Marking up books
Posted Wed Jan 5 08:00:07 2011

Sketches: If you want to make the most of your next conference, you should blog
Posted Tue Jan 4 19:32:10 2011

Momentum and holidays
Posted Mon Jan 3 19:33:19 2011

Sick days
Posted Sun Jan 2 21:08:47 2011

Weekly review: Week ending December 31, 2010
Posted Sat Jan 1 13:58:36 2011

Thinking about housework
Posted Fri Dec 31 08:26:00 2010

Thinking about time tracking
Posted Thu Dec 30 08:41:05 2010

Blogging and conference networking tips
Posted Wed Dec 29 03:35:08 2010

Ten lessons learned from disassembling and rebuilding our washing machine
Posted Tue Dec 28 08:40:02 2010

The great washing machine adventure
Posted Mon Dec 27 06:21:00 2010

Drupal fixes: Modifying the entries in Calendar
Posted Sun Dec 26 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending December 24, 2010
Posted Sat Dec 25 14:32:00 2010

Reflections on mentoring new developers in Drupal
Posted Fri Dec 24 08:00:00 2010

Using Simpletest and spreadsheets to populate Drupal with data
Posted Thu Dec 23 08:00:00 2010

More reflections on code and consulting
Posted Wed Dec 22 08:00:00 2010

Code and consulting
Posted Tue Dec 21 08:00:00 2010

What’s coming up in Emacs 24
Posted Tue Dec 21 08:00:00 2010

Yearly review: 2010
Posted Mon Dec 20 08:00:00 2010

Reflecting on life as an experiment, gender gaps, and privilege
Posted Sun Dec 19 08:00:46 2010

Weekly review: Week ending December 18, 2010
Posted Sat Dec 18 08:00:17 2010

Test-driven development and happiness
Posted Fri Dec 17 08:00:00 2010

More MobileOrg hacking on the Android
Posted Thu Dec 16 08:00:00 2010

Android Tasker: Setting time limits for Angry Birds and other timesucks
Posted Wed Dec 15 08:00:00 2010

Android life so far
Posted Tue Dec 14 08:00:00 2010

Conference tips: planning your attendance
Posted Mon Dec 13 08:00:00 2010

Happy Holidays, Eh! First edition greeting card giveaway
Posted Sun Dec 12 08:00:00 2010

XKCD, tic-tac-toe, and fractal goodness
Posted Sat Dec 11 15:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending December 10, 2010
Posted Sat Dec 11 08:00:00 2010

Understanding analytics for personal blogs
Posted Fri Dec 10 14:00:00 2010

What if sharing knowledge could make a difference between life and death?
Posted Fri Dec 10 08:00:00 2010

Sketchnotes: The Science of Blogging: Dan Zarrella (Hubspot)
Posted Thu Dec 9 15:30:00 2010

Making the most of the conference hallway track
Posted Thu Dec 9 08:00:00 2010

Writing about lots of different kinds of things
Posted Wed Dec 8 08:00:00 2010

Taho
Posted Tue Dec 7 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: November 2010
Posted Mon Dec 6 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending December 3, 2010
Posted Sun Dec 5 00:00:00 2010

Happy holidays, eh!
Posted Sat Dec 4 11:48:12 2010

More thoughts on week beginnings: it’s about being proactive
Posted Fri Dec 3 08:00:00 2010

Quantified Self Toronto: Second Meetup
Posted Thu Dec 2 08:00:00 2010

Sometimes you have to work at being happy
Posted Wed Dec 1 03:00:00 2010

Limiting flow
Posted Tue Nov 30 08:00:00 2010

Learning Android development by hacking MobileOrg
Posted Mon Nov 29 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending November 26, 2010
Posted Sun Nov 28 08:00:00 2010

Reclaiming
Posted Fri Nov 26 08:00:00 2010

Android: Tracking sleep with Sleep Bot
Posted Thu Nov 25 08:00:00 2010

Work and life
Posted Wed Nov 24 08:00:00 2010

I just got an Android phone
Posted Wed Nov 24 08:00:00 2010

Emacs: Recording ledger entries with org-capture-templates
Posted Tue Nov 23 08:00:00 2010

Week beginnings
Posted Mon Nov 22 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending November 19, 2010
Posted Sun Nov 21 08:00:00 2010

Experimenting with mornings
Posted Sat Nov 20 08:00:00 2010

Conversations: Stian Håklev
Posted Fri Nov 19 08:00:00 2010

Smiling
Posted Thu Nov 18 08:00:00 2010

Sketchnotes: Why I do them, how I do them, and how you can get started
Posted Wed Nov 17 08:00:00 2010

What I’m focusing on
Posted Tue Nov 16 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: October 2010
Posted Mon Nov 15 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending November 14, 2010
Posted Sun Nov 14 08:12:43 2010

Watched Wicked again; thinking about experiences
Posted Sat Nov 13 11:03:00 2010

Sketches: Wicked
Posted Fri Nov 12 08:00:00 2010

Drupal, SimpleTest, and the node access API
Posted Thu Nov 11 08:00:00 2010

Reinvention: virtual storytelling summit Nov 11 – 22, 2010
Posted Thu Nov 11 07:32:00 2010

Getting more drawing into my life
Posted Wed Nov 10 08:00:00 2010

How to use Drush to download and install Drupal modules
Posted Tue Nov 9 08:00:00 2010

The story of the shoes at our wedding; also, wedding pictures
Posted Sun Nov 7 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending November 7, 2010
Posted Sun Nov 7 04:00:00 2010

My reading round-up
Posted Sat Nov 6 08:27:47 2010

Where do you find topics to write about? How to have tons of topics
Posted Thu Nov 4 17:17:07 2010

How much time does it take to blog?
Posted Thu Nov 4 08:00:00 2010

Thoughts on speaking
Posted Wed Nov 3 08:00:00 2010

Book: Choose to be happily married: How everyday decisions can lead to lasting love
Posted Tue Nov 2 08:00:00 2010

Saving team members from RSI
Posted Mon Nov 1 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending October 31, 2010
Posted Sun Oct 31 08:00:00 2010

Emacs, keypresses, and why keyboard combinations aren’t that scary
Posted Sat Oct 30 08:00:00 2010

Speaking: In case of emergency, break glass
Posted Fri Oct 29 00:00:00 2010

Notes from Quantified Self Toronto, October 27, 2010
Posted Thu Oct 28 08:00:00 2010

"But what can I talk about?" Toastmaster tactics for tackling topics
Posted Wed Oct 27 08:00:00 2010

How I got into computer science
Posted Mon Oct 25 21:07:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending October 24, 2010
Posted Mon Oct 25 08:00:00 2010

Thinking about getting better at writing
Posted Sun Oct 24 08:00:00 2010

Drupal Features and Drush: updating our development workflow
Posted Sat Oct 23 08:00:00 2010

Book: Critical inquiry: the process of argument
Posted Fri Oct 22 08:00:53 2010

Saving development time through virtual appliances
Posted Thu Oct 21 08:00:00 2010

Memories of Mandelbrot
Posted Wed Oct 20 08:00:00 2010

Notes from DrupalCampToronto 2010
Posted Tue Oct 19 08:00:00 2010

Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts
Posted Mon Oct 18 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending October 17, 2010
Posted Sun Oct 17 10:47:41 2010

Back on the writing wagon
Posted Sat Oct 16 08:00:00 2010

Toaster’s toasted
Posted Fri Oct 15 08:00:00 2010

Placeholder: The Examined Life: Technology and Experimentation
Posted Thu Oct 14 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: September 2010
Posted Wed Oct 13 08:00:00 2010

Week ending October 10, 2010
Posted Tue Oct 12 13:21:37 2010

Cleaning up HTML from Microsoft Word
Posted Fri Oct 8 08:00:00 2010

Lotus Notes mail practices
Posted Thu Oct 7 08:00:00 2010

Quick catch-up
Posted Sun Oct 3 23:15:06 2010

Married!
Posted Sat Oct 2 10:00:40 2010

The Exploratorium, or playgrounds for the mind
Posted Fri Oct 1 08:00:00 2010

Book: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Posted Thu Sep 30 08:00:00 2010

Book: Thank You for Arguing
Posted Wed Sep 29 08:00:00 2010

Book: Getting to Yes
Posted Tue Sep 28 08:00:00 2010

Systematically eliminating choices
Posted Mon Sep 27 08:00:00 2010

Week ending September 26, 2010
Posted Sun Sep 26 08:00:00 2010

How to be dispensable, and why you should document and automate yourself out of a job
Posted Sat Sep 25 08:00:00 2010

New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode
Posted Fri Sep 24 08:00:00 2010

Old notes on staffing a virtual conference booth
Posted Thu Sep 23 08:00:00 2010

Rhetoric
Posted Wed Sep 22 08:00:00 2010

Tips from remote workers
Posted Tue Sep 21 08:00:00 2010

What can I do to help make the world more equitable?
Posted Mon Sep 20 08:00:00 2010

Week ending September 19, 2010
Posted Sun Sep 19 08:00:00 2010

Getting past generation-based conversations
Posted Sat Sep 18 08:00:00 2010

Welcome, listeners of the Taking Notes podcast!
Posted Fri Sep 17 12:33:14 2010

Tips for entrepreneurs
Posted Fri Sep 17 08:00:00 2010

‘round the bend
Posted Thu Sep 16 08:00:00 2010

Towards equity
Posted Wed Sep 15 08:00:00 2010

Filipiniana
Posted Tue Sep 14 08:00:00 2010

Week ending September 12, 2010
Posted Mon Sep 13 08:00:00 2010

Getting the WordPress Lifestream plugin to work on my blog
Posted Sun Sep 12 08:00:00 2010

Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review
Posted Sat Sep 11 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: August 2010
Posted Fri Sep 10 08:00:00 2010

Stuff is just stuff, and experiences are just experiences
Posted Thu Sep 9 08:00:00 2010

Labour Day painting
Posted Wed Sep 8 08:00:00 2010

Redoing things
Posted Tue Sep 7 08:00:00 2010

Fit for You: Thinking about my priorities
Posted Sun Sep 5 08:00:00 2010

Week ending September 5, 2010
Posted Sun Sep 5 08:00:00 2010

Thinking of autumn
Posted Sat Sep 4 08:00:00 2010

The value of constraints
Posted Fri Sep 3 08:00:00 2010

Book: Leading Outside the Lines
Posted Thu Sep 2 08:00:00 2010

It’s okay if you can’t remember or spell my name; being human
Posted Wed Sep 1 08:00:00 2010

Limiting my options so that I can focus
Posted Tue Aug 31 08:00:00 2010

Week ending August 29, 2010
Posted Mon Aug 30 08:00:00 2010

Setting up my new tablet PC – apps, config, etc.
Posted Sun Aug 29 08:00:00 2010

Drawing with my tablet
Posted Sat Aug 28 08:00:00 2010

On a Lenovo X61
Posted Fri Aug 27 08:00:00 2010

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (40552067-e534-4532-967e-11ddcd9a6edf – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)
Posted Thu Aug 26 15:24:59 2010

Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
Posted Thu Aug 26 08:00:00 2010

Keeping in touch with diffuse networks
Posted Wed Aug 25 08:00:00 2010

Learning storytelling from my parents
Posted Mon Aug 23 08:52:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending August 22, 2010
Posted Mon Aug 23 08:00:00 2010

Six steps to make sharing part of how you work
Posted Sun Aug 22 11:54:00 2010

Backyard trades
Posted Sat Aug 21 10:13:00 2010

Hypercubes, happiness, and serenity
Posted Fri Aug 20 09:19:24 2010

Speed-reading
Posted Thu Aug 19 09:06:45 2010

Diversity and awareness of privilege
Posted Wed Aug 18 08:22:23 2010

Note-taking revisited
Posted Tue Aug 17 10:27:32 2010

Weekly review: Week ending August 15, 2010
Posted Mon Aug 16 08:00:00 2010

Twenty-seven
Posted Sun Aug 15 18:10:37 2010

The delicate dance of status
Posted Sat Aug 14 08:00:00 2010

Reflecting on introductions
Posted Fri Aug 13 08:00:00 2010

Networking events
Posted Thu Aug 12 08:00:00 2010

Television and the push and pull of motivation
Posted Wed Aug 11 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending August 8, 2010
Posted Tue Aug 10 08:00:00 2010

Sample code for allowing drag-and-drop of Notes/Domino documents (including email) to a table in a plugin
Posted Mon Aug 9 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: July 2010
Posted Sun Aug 8 08:00:00 2010

On finding a great job
Posted Sat Aug 7 08:00:00 2010

On passion and luck
Posted Fri Aug 6 08:00:00 2010

Long weekend reflections
Posted Thu Aug 5 08:00:00 2010

Success and blogging
Posted Wed Aug 4 08:00:00 2010

Two days of awesome
Posted Tue Aug 3 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending August 1, 2010
Posted Mon Aug 2 08:00:00 2010

What’s success, anyway?
Posted Sun Aug 1 08:00:00 2010

Cool mornings
Posted Sat Jul 31 07:36:00 2010

Finding opportunities in a big company
Posted Fri Jul 30 08:00:00 2010

A philosophy of sharing and a truth about teaching
Posted Thu Jul 29 08:00:00 2010

Electronic ears: Using Performous to learn how to sing
Posted Wed Jul 28 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending July 26, 2010
Posted Tue Jul 27 08:00:00 2010

Living an awesome life: Not a Greek tragedy
Posted Mon Jul 26 04:00:00 2010

Reflections from a tweetup
Posted Sat Jul 24 08:00:00 2010

Getting the hang of leading small things
Posted Sat Jul 24 08:00:00 2010

Giving myself permission to delegate again
Posted Thu Jul 22 08:22:33 2010

Technology evangelists: What we do, how to find and hire one, how to become one
Posted Thu Jul 22 08:00:00 2010

Troubleshooting my Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Expeditor 6.2, and Eclipse 3.4 setup
Posted Wed Jul 21 08:00:00 2010

Using org2blog to publish Org-mode subtrees
Posted Tue Jul 20 08:00:00 2010

This is a test post from org2blog
Posted Mon Jul 19 08:47:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending July 18, 2010
Posted Sun Jul 18 20:47:39 2010

Garden riches
Posted Sat Jul 17 13:45:38 2010

Keeping track of multiple projects
Posted Fri Jul 16 08:00:00 2010

Playing the long game: writing, raw material, and backups
Posted Thu Jul 15 08:00:00 2010

Delegation and thinking about what I want to do
Posted Wed Jul 14 08:00:00 2010

Love and reaction
Posted Tue Jul 13 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending July 11, 2010
Posted Mon Jul 12 08:00:00 2010

CookOrDie: Passing it on with lemon-rosemary chicken
Posted Sun Jul 11 08:00:00 2010

Sooner or later? Expertise and the new
Posted Sat Jul 10 08:00:00 2010

Yogurt, change, and growing oldness
Posted Fri Jul 9 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: June 2010
Posted Thu Jul 8 08:00:00 2010

Get-together ideas for Toronto
Posted Wed Jul 7 08:00:00 2010

Thoughts on writing and starting again
Posted Tue Jul 6 08:00:00 2010

Career growth in a large company
Posted Mon Jul 5 16:57:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending July 4, 2010
Posted Mon Jul 5 08:00:00 2010

Blueberry jam, apricot syrup, and kiwi jam
Posted Sat Jul 3 23:49:00 2010

Thinking about dinner parties
Posted Fri Jul 2 08:00:00 2010

Tools, big companies, and collaboration
Posted Thu Jul 1 08:00:00 2010

Risks, personal brands, and findability
Posted Wed Jun 30 08:00:00 2010

Book: Making Peace with Your Office Life
Posted Tue Jun 29 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending June 27, 2010
Posted Mon Jun 28 08:00:00 2010

Keeping my name
Posted Sun Jun 27 08:00:00 2010

Growing up
Posted Sat Jun 26 08:00:00 2010

Editing audio and embedding it into a MS Powerpoint file
Posted Fri Jun 25 08:00:00 2010

Thank you, David Singer
Posted Thu Jun 24 08:00:00 2010

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (8d05c7cf-b070-4fbb-83ed-ce8ff5561de8 – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)
Posted Wed Jun 23 20:50:05 2010

Using supervisord for Nginx+FastCGI+PHP
Posted Wed Jun 23 08:00:00 2010

Seven Tips for Short Talks
Posted Tue Jun 22 08:00:00 2010

The fruits and chairs of our labour
Posted Sun Jun 20 21:52:09 2010

Say the steps out loud
Posted Sat Jun 19 08:00:00 2010

Planning ahead
Posted Fri Jun 18 08:00:00 2010

Notes about business communication
Posted Thu Jun 17 08:00:00 2010

Happiness
Posted Wed Jun 16 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending June 13, 2010
Posted Mon Jun 14 09:17:18 2010

I want to learn how to draw better
Posted Mon Jun 14 08:00:00 2010

On libraries at school
Posted Sun Jun 13 08:00:00 2010

Braindump: Automating repetitive tasks using AutoHotkey
Posted Sat Jun 12 08:00:00 2010

Thinking out loud: happiness
Posted Fri Jun 11 08:00:00 2010

LotusScript: Checking another database for categories that do not contain a document of a particular type
Posted Thu Jun 10 08:00:00 2010

The work of self-understanding
Posted Wed Jun 9 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending June 20, 2010
Posted Tue Jun 8 08:00:00 2010

Passion
Posted Tue Jun 8 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending June 7, 2010
Posted Mon Jun 7 08:00:00 2010

Personal finance
Posted Sun Jun 6 08:00:00 2010

Goals
Posted Sat Jun 5 08:00:00 2010

Some of my favourite quotes
Posted Fri Jun 4 08:00:00 2010

Influence map; introspection
Posted Thu Jun 3 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: May 2010
Posted Wed Jun 2 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: week ending May 30, 2010
Posted Tue Jun 1 08:00:00 2010

Travel kaizen and the meaning of life
Posted Mon May 31 08:00:00 2010

Exercising the senses
Posted Sun May 30 08:00:00 2010

Imperfection
Posted Sat May 29 08:00:00 2010

Getting the hang of big companies
Posted Fri May 28 08:00:00 2010

Woodworking
Posted Wed May 26 08:00:31 2010

Weekly review: Week ending May 24, 2010 (Victoria Day long weekend)
Posted Wed May 26 08:00:00 2010

Exponential awesomeness
Posted Tue May 25 08:00:00 2010

Getting the hang of gardening
Posted Mon May 24 08:00:00 2010

Braindump: On face-to-face and online social networking (xpost)
Posted Sun May 23 08:00:00 2010

The garden in May
Posted Sat May 22 08:00:00 2010

Presented Remote Presentations That Rock v2 for the Best of TLE 2009 series
Posted Fri May 21 20:00:00 2010

Thinking about the path ahead
Posted Thu May 20 08:00:00 2010

I want to learn how to make drawings/videos like this
Posted Wed May 19 08:00:00 2010

Custom fields in Lotus Notes / Domino? You may need to set the SUMMARY field flag
Posted Tue May 18 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending May 16, 2010
Posted Mon May 17 08:00:00 2010

Org-toodledo
Posted Sun May 16 08:00:00 2010

Picking hobbies that fit together
Posted Sat May 15 08:00:00 2010

Even more awesome LotusScript mail merge for Lotus Notes + Microsoft Excel
Posted Fri May 14 08:00:00 2010

Quick notes from a conversation about speaking and facilitation
Posted Thu May 13 08:00:00 2010

Dear future Sacha,
Posted Wed May 12 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending May 9, 2010
Posted Tue May 11 08:00:00 2010

Quick guide to domain names
Posted Mon May 10 08:00:00 2010

Remote Presentations That Rock (revised)
Posted Sun May 9 08:00:00 2010

May 2010: Remember and declutter
Posted Sat May 8 08:00:00 2010

A letter to my 8-year-old self
Posted Fri May 7 08:00:00 2010

Holy cow, that was a lot of mail. So sorry!
Posted Thu May 6 20:23:24 2010

Squirrels, shop class and drafting: making my peace with high school
Posted Thu May 6 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: April 2010
Posted Wed May 5 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending May 2, 2010
Posted Tue May 4 08:00:00 2010

Bread of salt and taste of home
Posted Mon May 3 08:00:00 2010

Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation
Posted Sun May 2 08:00:46 2010

Thinking about what people remember
Posted Sat May 1 08:00:00 2010

Paper is the new PowerPoint
Posted Fri Apr 30 08:00:00 2010

On stores and surroundings
Posted Thu Apr 29 08:00:00 2010

Smarter leaders braindump (long, visual)
Posted Wed Apr 28 10:59:54 2010

Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor
Posted Wed Apr 28 08:00:00 2010

What do I hope to inspire people to do and be?
Posted Tue Apr 27 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending April 25, 2010
Posted Mon Apr 26 04:00:00 2010

Women and technical leadership
Posted Sun Apr 25 08:00:00 2010

My cats have been teaching me how to draw
Posted Sat Apr 24 08:00:00 2010

Forgot my keys; automating memory
Posted Fri Apr 23 11:28:21 2010

The problem with personal branding
Posted Fri Apr 23 08:00:00 2010

Thoughts on presenting: I love the backchannel
Posted Thu Apr 22 08:00:00 2010

New hires, ignorance and innovation
Posted Wed Apr 21 08:00:00 2010

Being visible
Posted Tue Apr 20 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending April 18, 2010
Posted Mon Apr 19 14:26:35 2010

SimpleXML and Xpath problems solved
Posted Mon Apr 19 08:00:00 2010

In my dreams of wild success
Posted Sun Apr 18 08:00:00 2010

Tea
Posted Sat Apr 17 08:00:00 2010

Thinking about mentoring
Posted Fri Apr 16 08:00:00 2010

On getting started with collaboration
Posted Thu Apr 15 08:00:00 2010

From the ground up: Helping our organizations work smarter
Posted Wed Apr 14 08:00:00 2010

For love of numbers
Posted Tue Apr 13 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending April 11, 2010
Posted Mon Apr 12 08:00:00 2010

I heart gardening
Posted Sun Apr 11 08:00:00 2010

Show your work
Posted Sat Apr 10 08:00:00 2010

Find your wall
Posted Fri Apr 9 08:00:00 2010

Large team challenges
Posted Thu Apr 8 08:00:00 2010

Technical leadership
Posted Wed Apr 7 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending April 4, 2010
Posted Tue Apr 6 08:00:00 2010

Happiness at work
Posted Mon Apr 5 08:00:00 2010

Unstructured time update
Posted Sun Apr 4 08:00:00 2010

Wordpress admin screen tweaks
Posted Sat Apr 3 09:00:00 2010

On role models
Posted Fri Apr 2 09:00:00 2010

IgniteToronto video: The Shy Presenter
Posted Fri Apr 2 08:00:00 2010

Thinking about travel
Posted Thu Apr 1 08:00:00 2010

Dusting off my Emacs config files
Posted Wed Mar 31 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: March 2010
Posted Tue Mar 30 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending March 28, 2010
Posted Mon Mar 29 08:00:00 2010

From delegation to automation
Posted Sun Mar 28 08:00:00 2010

Automation
Posted Sat Mar 27 09:00:00 2010

Missing something I love about presentations
Posted Fri Mar 26 08:00:00 2010

Reflections on PresentationCampToronto
Posted Thu Mar 25 08:00:00 2010

How to get people to read your blog post
Posted Wed Mar 24 08:00:00 2010

Presentation kaizen: Seven everyday ways to become a better presenter
Posted Tue Mar 23 08:00:11 2010

How to brain-dump what you know
Posted Tue Mar 23 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending March 21, 2010
Posted Mon Mar 22 08:00:00 2010

Learning from interviews
Posted Sun Mar 21 08:00:00 2010

Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud
Posted Sat Mar 20 08:00:00 2010

Braindump: Presentation kaizen
Posted Fri Mar 19 08:00:00 2010

Welcome to IBM! Advice for other newcomers like me
Posted Thu Mar 18 08:00:00 2010

Book recommendations for new grads
Posted Wed Mar 17 08:00:00 2010

Experiment: Shopping for groceries online
Posted Tue Mar 16 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending March 14, 2010
Posted Mon Mar 15 08:00:00 2010

Steeped in collaboration
Posted Sun Mar 14 09:00:00 2010

Kitchen kaizen
Posted Sat Mar 13 08:00:00 2010

What do I want to learn? Making a map
Posted Fri Mar 12 08:00:00 2010

Leadership going virtual: how we can help managers
Posted Thu Mar 11 08:00:00 2010

Thinking about what I want to do with IBM
Posted Wed Mar 10 08:00:00 2010

Experiments as a presenter
Posted Tue Mar 9 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending March 7, 2010
Posted Mon Mar 8 08:00:00 2010

An abundance of opportunities
Posted Sun Mar 7 08:00:00 2010

On circumstances and somebodies
Posted Sat Mar 6 08:00:00 2010

A little less wise, a little more awesome
Posted Fri Mar 5 19:44:00 2010

What I learned from The Art of Marketing
Posted Fri Mar 5 08:00:00 2010

Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice
Posted Thu Mar 4 08:00:00 2010

Change, culture, consensus, and the company we live in
Posted Wed Mar 3 08:57:43 2010

Not just a word
Posted Wed Mar 3 08:00:00 2010

Thoughts on preparing an Ignite-style presentation
Posted Tue Mar 2 08:00:00 2010

Monthly review: February 2010
Posted Mon Mar 1 13:17:43 2010

Weekly review: Week ending February 28, 2010
Posted Mon Mar 1 12:36:56 2010

The Shy Presenter: Why conventional advice on learning public speaking sucks, and how to really get started
Posted Mon Mar 1 08:00:00 2010

Getting ready for a new adventure
Posted Sun Feb 28 08:00:00 2010

On vintage portaits and wedding photography
Posted Sat Feb 27 08:00:00 2010

The Shy Presenter: braindumping an introvert’s guide to public speaking
Posted Fri Feb 26 08:00:00 2010

Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots
Posted Thu Feb 25 08:00:00 2010

Wiki organization challenge – thinking out loud
Posted Wed Feb 24 08:00:00 2010

Winter
Posted Tue Feb 23 08:00:00 2010

Seeds
Posted Mon Feb 22 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending February 21, 2010
Posted Sun Feb 21 20:55:05 2010

Circuses, pots, and cathedrals: three key stories
Posted Sun Feb 21 08:00:00 2010

Patternicity, how things come together, and happiness
Posted Sat Feb 20 08:00:00 2010

The sweet spot at work
Posted Fri Feb 19 08:00:00 2010

It’s not what you can’t write, it’s what you need to share
Posted Thu Feb 18 08:00:00 2010

Experiments in awesome
Posted Wed Feb 17 08:00:00 2010

Fixing SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 for Karmic wireless on Asus Eee 1008HA
Posted Tue Feb 16 15:03:17 2010

Personal blog? Don’t worry about your strategy
Posted Tue Feb 16 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending February 14, 2010
Posted Mon Feb 15 12:40:49 2010

Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector
Posted Mon Feb 15 08:00:00 2010

How not to propose marriage
Posted Sun Feb 14 08:00:00 2010

Visualization of my blog categories
Posted Sat Feb 13 08:00:00 2010

Wiki information architecture thoughts
Posted Fri Feb 12 08:00:00 2010

Writing for love and fun
Posted Thu Feb 11 08:00:00 2010

Harvesting the backchannel bazaar of insights
Posted Wed Feb 10 08:00:00 2010

Notes from WITI: The Shy Connector
Posted Tue Feb 9 17:06:12 2010

Bug-hunting spreadsheets
Posted Tue Feb 9 08:00:00 2010

ACM Hypertext conference in Toronto this June; paper deadline Feb 14
Posted Mon Feb 8 11:09:43 2010

Weekly review: Week ending February 7, 2010
Posted Mon Feb 8 10:39:48 2010

Lessons learned from microblogging talk
Posted Mon Feb 8 08:00:00 2010

Teapot
Posted Sun Feb 7 08:00:00 2010

Moving from testing to development
Posted Sat Feb 6 08:00:00 2010

I’d like to build the post-connector workplace
Posted Fri Feb 5 08:00:00 2010

Monthly highlights: January 2010
Posted Thu Feb 4 08:00:00 2010

Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock
Posted Wed Feb 3 08:00:00 2010

Learning more about interviewing
Posted Tue Feb 2 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending January 31, 2010
Posted Mon Feb 1 11:36:55 2010

Always look on the bright side of life
Posted Mon Feb 1 08:00:00 2010

Agendas
Posted Sun Jan 31 12:23:20 2010

Pamanhikan
Posted Sat Jan 30 23:27:02 2010

From the book bag
Posted Thu Jan 28 09:08:00 2010

Gifts and graphs: visualization and gift-giving
Posted Wed Jan 27 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending January 24, 2010
Posted Tue Jan 26 17:30:00 2010

Dogear and Delicious: Cross-posting your enterprise bookmarks (xpost)
Posted Tue Jan 26 15:38:17 2010

Book: Beyond Booked Solid
Posted Tue Jan 26 08:00:00 2010

Every teachable moment
Posted Mon Jan 25 08:00:00 2010

Around the watercooler
Posted Sun Jan 24 08:00:00 2010

Visual organizers
Posted Sat Jan 23 08:00:00 2010

Batirol, tablea, and tsokolatera – the joys of hot chocolate
Posted Fri Jan 22 08:00:00 2010

Recovering
Posted Thu Jan 21 09:07:00 2010

Free Drupal-IBM-Acquia webinar: Integrating Drupal with Enterprise Back-office Systems – Thu Jan 21 2010 1PM EST
Posted Thu Jan 21 09:03:37 2010

Book: On Becoming a Leader
Posted Thu Jan 21 08:00:00 2010

Recovering from jet lag
Posted Wed Jan 20 09:24:39 2010

Braindump: Social media advice for events
Posted Wed Jan 20 08:00:00 2010

Training wheels for setting goals
Posted Tue Jan 19 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Week ending Jan 17, 2009
Posted Mon Jan 18 13:36:45 2010

What I want to talk about in 2010
Posted Mon Jan 18 08:00:00 2010

Learning assertiveness
Posted Sun Jan 17 08:00:00 2010

Reflecting on introversion and shyness; help me find better words!
Posted Sat Jan 16 08:00:00 2010

Lightweight personas for ideation workshops
Posted Sat Jan 16 08:00:00 2010

Rabbit-holes of awesome
Posted Thu Jan 14 19:00:00 2010

Getting started on your web presence
Posted Thu Jan 14 08:00:00 2010

Upcoming talk: The Shy Connector
Posted Thu Jan 14 03:20:00 2010

I want more colour in my day
Posted Wed Jan 13 20:00:00 2010

Growth through writing
Posted Wed Jan 13 08:00:00 2010

Facilitation: Thinking about the ends and means
Posted Tue Jan 12 08:00:00 2010

A night with the barkada
Posted Tue Jan 12 08:00:00 2010

Cats in high places
Posted Tue Jan 12 07:36:55 2010

Information gardening tasks
Posted Mon Jan 11 08:00:00 2010

La-Z-Boy cinemas, massages, and seafood
Posted Mon Jan 11 00:20:23 2010

Weekly review: Week ending January 10, 2010
Posted Sun Jan 10 09:15:01 2010

Closing my 2009 financial ledger, looking forward to the next year
Posted Sun Jan 10 08:00:00 2010

Sketch: Elephant love
Posted Sun Jan 10 08:00:00 2010

I’ll never buy a Moleskine again
Posted Sat Jan 9 10:28:28 2010

Personal knowledge management, morgue files, capture systems
Posted Sat Jan 9 08:00:00 2010

Learning more about facilitation
Posted Fri Jan 8 08:00:00 2010

Sketch: Getting past the tyranny of the blank page
Posted Fri Jan 8 00:55:00 2010

Monthly highlights: December 2009
Posted Thu Jan 7 08:00:00 2010

On pen and paper
Posted Wed Jan 6 21:29:01 2010

Offline and online conversations
Posted Wed Jan 6 08:00:00 2010

Accessing tacit knowledge and building pathways for two-way learning
Posted Tue Jan 5 08:00:00 2010

Weekly review: Weeks ending December 27, 2009 and January 3, 2010
Posted Mon Jan 4 22:05:27 2010

How I explore my interests
Posted Mon Jan 4 08:00:00 2010

Thinking out loud: Mapping what I know
Posted Sun Jan 3 08:00:00 2010

Book: Rules for Revolutionaries
Posted Sat Jan 2 08:36:00 2010

On the practice of a weekly review
Posted Fri Jan 1 08:00:00 2010

What will you stop doing?
Posted Thu Dec 31 08:00:00 2009

I write because I cannot waste time
Posted Wed Dec 30 08:01:00 2009

I hate flying
Posted Tue Dec 29 08:00:00 2009

What do I delegate, and why?
Posted Mon Dec 28 08:06:00 2009

Meeting resolutions
Posted Sun Dec 27 07:23:00 2009

How you know your training sessions are working; Remote Presentations That Rock
Posted Sat Dec 26 07:35:00 2009

Getting ready for a long trip
Posted Fri Dec 25 20:21:24 2009

Gifts
Posted Fri Dec 25 08:00:00 2009

Happy-do, epiphanies, and relentless improvement
Posted Thu Dec 24 08:02:00 2009

Learning about note-taking
Posted Wed Dec 23 08:00:00 2009

Moments of truth
Posted Tue Dec 22 07:34:00 2009

Weekly review: Weeks ending Dec 13, 2009 and Dec 20, 2009
Posted Mon Dec 21 16:17:46 2009

My week starts with Mondays, and other ways perspective influences life
Posted Mon Dec 21 08:02:00 2009

Copious free time? Carefully protected!
Posted Sun Dec 20 08:37:00 2009

After the tea party
Posted Sat Dec 19 21:23:50 2009

Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
Posted Sat Dec 19 08:04:00 2009

One post a day, or the value of a bottleneck
Posted Fri Dec 18 08:06:00 2009

Learning plan for 2010
Posted Thu Dec 17 08:01:00 2009

Conversations with a mentor: chat about plans, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
Posted Wed Dec 16 08:10:00 2009

What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees
Posted Tue Dec 15 08:34:00 2009

How I find and learn from mentors
Posted Mon Dec 14 08:11:00 2009

Lessons from 2009 and plans for 2010
Posted Sun Dec 13 15:23:48 2009

Informed Judgment, Terrence Hickey
Posted Sun Dec 13 08:30:00 2009

Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101
Posted Sat Dec 12 08:01:00 2009

Fall down intentionally
Posted Fri Dec 11 08:09:47 2009

Book: Making Work Work
Posted Fri Dec 11 07:35:00 2009

Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations
Posted Thu Dec 10 08:24:00 2009

Editing feedback on The Shy Connector
Posted Wed Dec 9 16:29:19 2009

Weekly review: Week ending December 6, 2009
Posted Wed Dec 9 13:44:00 2009

Process: Using Activities to organize workshop-related information
Posted Wed Dec 9 08:23:00 2009

The shy connector’s guide to business travel
Posted Tue Dec 8 08:16:00 2009

Lotus Connections Communities topics+replies feeds to OPML
Posted Mon Dec 7 16:18:07 2009

Behind the scenes: Livin’ la Vida Emacs
Posted Mon Dec 7 08:37:00 2009

Thoughts on the brain drain
Posted Sun Dec 6 07:43:00 2009

Drawing by Seeing, and some reflections on life
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Figuring things out on the fly
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Weekly review: Week ending Nov 29, 2009 (and website redesign!)
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Lotus Notes tweaks: Toolbar buttons to file mail
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Process: How to ask communities for help
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Living in the sweet spot
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Learning about my grandmother
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

Wordpress tweak: Proper navigation for date.php
Posted Sat Dec 5 09:40:05 2009

A toolbox of questions
Posted Sat Dec 5 07:19:18 2009

Scenes from a geek life: Duel
Posted Fri Dec 4 22:31:40 2009

Superpowers and vision security
Posted Fri Dec 4 16:17:17 2009

Of storytellers and pattern-makers; Book: Solitude: A Return to the Self
Posted Fri Dec 4 08:15:00 2009

Reflections on passion: Don’t let your job get in the way of your career
Posted Thu Dec 3 08:13:00 2009

Oh, the library…
Posted Thu Nov 26 08:10:00 2009

Learning how to write
Posted Wed Nov 25 08:32:00 2009

Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston
Posted Tue Nov 24 08:12:00 2009

Trying out visual notetaking at a workshop
Posted Mon Nov 23 08:02:00 2009

Weekly review: Week ending November 22, 2009
Posted Sun Nov 22 22:15:13 2009

Thinking about my personal learning environment
Posted Sun Nov 22 08:41:00 2009

Drawing is about seeing the magic in everyday things
Posted Sat Nov 21 08:23:00 2009

Book: Leading Out Loud
Posted Fri Nov 20 08:41:00 2009

The luxury of making
Posted Thu Nov 19 08:02:00 2009

Wordpress: Older posts, newer posts
Posted Wed Nov 18 08:27:00 2009

Cambridge stories from the past and future
Posted Wed Nov 18 08:26:32 2009

Automating tedious wiki editing tasks with Emacs and w3m
Posted Tue Nov 17 14:24:31 2009

How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 4: Taking the next steps
Posted Tue Nov 17 08:39:00 2009

Fleece blankets and seasons
Posted Mon Nov 16 08:15:00 2009

Made a sofa wrap!
Posted Sun Nov 15 22:40:09 2009

Weekly review: Week ending November 15, 2009
Posted Sun Nov 15 13:11:53 2009

The shy connector’s schedule: making time to breathe
Posted Sun Nov 15 08:02:00 2009

Reflecting on how I can create value
Posted Sat Nov 14 15:30:18 2009

Reflecting on 8 years of blog posts
Posted Sat Nov 14 14:13:32 2009

Lucas
Posted Sat Nov 14 10:05:26 2009

Thinking about how I can make the most of editing; The world is an amazing candy-store of talent
Posted Fri Nov 13 19:12:37 2009

Wild success and social networks
Posted Fri Nov 13 17:51:25 2009

How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 3: Reading the room
Posted Fri Nov 13 11:30:43 2009

My talks in 2009
Posted Thu Nov 12 11:58:51 2009

How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 2: From audience to participants
Posted Thu Nov 12 09:00:06 2009

How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar – Part 1: The best seats in the house
Posted Wed Nov 11 09:38:58 2009

Libraries
Posted Wed Nov 11 08:02:00 2009

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant? Eat like a bee!
Posted Tue Nov 10 10:04:11 2009

Weekly review: Week ending November 8, 2009
Posted Mon Nov 9 09:20:58 2009

Five types of coaching
Posted Sat Nov 7 08:18:00 2009

Garden plans for 2010
Posted Fri Nov 6 07:02:00 2009

My Inkscape settings
Posted Thu Nov 5 09:20:00 2009

How I met Jeff Muzzerall
Posted Thu Nov 5 08:00:06 2009

Grocery round-up: Toronto
Posted Thu Nov 5 08:00:06 2009

Weekly review: Week ending November 1, 2009
Posted Thu Nov 5 08:00:06 2009

Thoughts from “Remote Presentations That Rock”, changing dynamics
Posted Wed Nov 4 10:31:46 2009

Compfight: Search Flickr for CC-licensed images
Posted Wed Nov 4 07:02:00 2009

Vacations and the introvert
Posted Wed Nov 4 06:40:11 2009

Working on not misplacing things
Posted Tue Nov 3 09:08:41 2009

Thinking about Planner/EmacsWiki versus Wordpress
Posted Tue Nov 3 07:08:00 2009

Book: Closing the Innovation Gap
Posted Mon Nov 2 06:57:00 2009

Comedy and self-promotion
Posted Sun Nov 1 09:49:03 2009

Connecting in a large organization
Posted Sun Nov 1 07:39:37 2009

Halloween
Posted Sun Nov 1 07:07:40 2009

Flowcharts and drawing
Posted Sat Oct 31 08:14:51 2009

Learning from failure
Posted Fri Oct 30 19:00:13 2009

The “Remote Presentations That Rock” reading list
Posted Fri Oct 30 15:45:00 2009

New Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch!
Posted Fri Oct 30 08:13:11 2009

What to do during boring teleconference calls
Posted Fri Oct 30 08:10:27 2009

Big dreams and small dreams can coexist
Posted Wed Oct 28 08:37:44 2009

Weekly review: Week ending October 25, 2009
Posted Mon Oct 26 12:02:46 2009

The man who should’ve used Connections
Posted Mon Oct 26 10:17:31 2009

Thinking in terms of decades
Posted Mon Oct 26 10:00:36 2009

Happy Bee-Day to me!
Posted Sat Oct 24 07:12:54 2009

Thinking about conferences
Posted Thu Oct 22 17:49:54 2009

Thinking out loud about my presentation
Posted Thu Oct 22 17:19:14 2009

Almost a permanent resident! Decisions, decisions…
Posted Wed Oct 21 09:45:58 2009

Check out “7 Tips for Remote Presentations That Rock” – notes posted
Posted Tue Oct 20 16:49:09 2009

Speaking of routines: life is cyclic
Posted Tue Oct 20 08:45:36 2009

Routines
Posted Mon Oct 19 21:40:57 2009

Weekly review: Week ending October 18, 2009
Posted Mon Oct 19 19:40:06 2009

Weekly review: Week ending October 11, 2009
Posted Wed Oct 14 21:10:03 2009

7 Tips for Remote Presentations That Rock
Posted Wed Oct 14 15:57:30 2009

A weekend well-spent preparing for winter
Posted Wed Oct 14 00:20:42 2009

Squeezing through a traffic jam
Posted Sat Oct 10 22:08:26 2009

Missed sketchblogging!
Posted Fri Oct 9 21:35:30 2009

Public speaker worried about losing control? Don't have lectures – have conversations
Posted Fri Oct 9 18:38:02 2009

Saving time and money with a chest freezer
Posted Fri Oct 9 08:19:52 2009

Find your attention wandering during teleconferences?
Posted Thu Oct 8 11:57:03 2009

Drupal workflow for small projects
Posted Tue Oct 6 16:40:00 2009

Finding the sweet spot
Posted Mon Oct 5 16:56:17 2009

How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts?
Posted Mon Oct 5 16:30:01 2009

Weekly review: Week ending October 4, 2009
Posted Sun Oct 4 22:01:56 2009

Seeing in three dimensions
Posted Sun Oct 4 21:44:39 2009

Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner
Posted Wed Sep 30 10:47:25 2009

Working around networking weaknesses and playing to strengths
Posted Wed Sep 30 10:22:54 2009

Personal connection and a trip to the dentist
Posted Tue Sep 29 17:05:53 2009

Dinner on the periodic table
Posted Tue Sep 29 10:36:55 2009

Weekly review: Sept 20 and Sept 27, 2009
Posted Mon Sep 28 00:08:11 2009

Riding on my bicycle
Posted Sun Sep 27 23:52:20 2009

Loyalty and love at work
Posted Fri Sep 25 15:38:21 2009

Swarming talent and manpower outsourcing
Posted Fri Sep 25 15:01:03 2009

Thinking about the Smart Work Jam
Posted Fri Sep 25 12:12:00 2009

Shifting gears
Posted Thu Sep 24 00:05:09 2009

Expanding on The Shy Connector: What do you want to see next?
Posted Mon Sep 21 15:17:01 2009

Improv 201, class 2: This is going to be tough
Posted Sun Sep 20 22:56:04 2009

Blog to find out how you think
Posted Sun Sep 20 12:54:54 2009

Quick thoughts
Posted Wed Sep 16 21:08:39 2009

Brainstorming around Smart Work
Posted Tue Sep 15 23:29:28 2009

Weekly review: Week ending September 13, 2009
Posted Mon Sep 14 11:58:29 2009

Made a lunch bag
Posted Fri Sep 11 22:50:41 2009

Deeper insights into private versus public
Posted Wed Sep 9 15:27:37 2009

Pick my brain
Posted Tue Sep 8 19:30:57 2009

Weekly review: Week ending September 6, 2009
Posted Sun Sep 6 10:15:02 2009

Just in case
Posted Fri Sep 4 20:36:32 2009

Process: Update my IBM meeting calendar
Posted Fri Sep 4 15:05:46 2009

Improv 101, class 6 (really #7 in the series): Getting the hang of it!
Posted Thu Sep 3 22:58:04 2009

A teacher's guide to Web 2.0 at school [illustrated]
Posted Tue Sep 1 22:04:37 2009

Weekly review: week ending August 30, 2009
Posted Mon Aug 31 22:33:50 2009

Improv 101: Learning more about characterizations
Posted Thu Aug 27 22:45:41 2009

Improv 101, class 4: Characterizations
Posted Wed Aug 26 21:00:20 2009

Exercising my network
Posted Wed Aug 26 20:00:44 2009

IBM Drupal Drop-in Clinic
Posted Tue Aug 25 14:24:36 2009

Growing as a presenter
Posted Tue Aug 25 08:56:07 2009

Weekly review: Week ending August 23, 2009
Posted Mon Aug 24 21:34:39 2009

Back from staycation
Posted Mon Aug 24 18:10:52 2009

Tea, a drink with jam and bread
Posted Sun Aug 23 21:52:38 2009

Social media changes real-life conversations
Posted Wed Aug 19 11:04:16 2009

New presentation: The Shy Connector!
Posted Tue Aug 18 22:40:20 2009

Teaching energy
Posted Mon Aug 17 22:59:09 2009

Notes from my staycation
Posted Mon Aug 17 21:47:00 2009

Garden updates
Posted Sat Aug 15 19:34:05 2009

Five hats
Posted Sat Aug 15 13:07:36 2009

Weekly review: Weeks ending August 8 and 15, 2009
Posted Sat Aug 15 12:38:31 2009

From presentations to conversations
Posted Fri Aug 14 19:04:22 2009

Reflecting on relationships
Posted Wed Aug 12 09:50:04 2009

The shy connector
Posted Tue Aug 11 09:45:03 2009

Another year of blog posts (PDF, 535 pages)
Posted Mon Aug 10 21:40:18 2009

Life as a 25-year-old
Posted Mon Aug 10 21:37:01 2009

My life as a 25-year-old
Posted Sun Aug 9 21:13:14 2009

Food and shelter, health, love, skill, meaning
Posted Sun Aug 9 10:29:36 2009

Improv: Catch 23's Next Act, people-watching
Posted Sat Aug 8 23:43:09 2009

The sweetness of life
Posted Sat Aug 8 22:15:01 2009

Observational humour and solo improv play
Posted Fri Aug 7 14:32:48 2009

Gardening and cats
Posted Fri Aug 7 09:59:00 2009

Improv 101, class 3: It's not about stuff, it's about relationships
Posted Thu Aug 6 23:16:36 2009

The influence of trees, webs, and clouds
Posted Thu Aug 6 10:10:58 2009

In-jokes and shared experiences
Posted Wed Aug 5 15:05:40 2009

Weekly review: Week ending August 2, 2009
Posted Wed Aug 5 10:25:38 2009

On sewing and improv
Posted Mon Aug 3 00:24:59 2009

Improv 101 class 2: Scenes, objects, and environments
Posted Fri Jul 31 22:47:55 2009

Unstructured time
Posted Wed Jul 29 08:38:33 2009

Taro
Posted Tue Jul 28 23:30:02 2009

Sewing arghs
Posted Tue Jul 28 09:12:09 2009

Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Posted Mon Jul 27 15:59:31 2009

Weekly review: Week ending July 26, 2009
Posted Sun Jul 26 21:15:41 2009

Never get used up
Posted Sun Jul 26 18:15:50 2009

Science 2.0: July 29, 2009 1pm-6pm MaRS
Posted Sun Jul 26 18:07:37 2009

Started my Improv 101 class!
Posted Fri Jul 24 00:15:21 2009

How I got my job at IBM
Posted Thu Jul 23 16:52:06 2009

Weekly review: Weeks ending July 12, 2009 and July 19, 2009
Posted Wed Jul 22 17:29:29 2009

Just got back from the photowalk in High Park
Posted Sat Jul 18 21:15:46 2009

Facilitating workshops: What I learned from doing a trend overview
Posted Thu Jul 16 15:22:48 2009

Notes from the road
Posted Wed Jul 15 17:52:32 2009

Quick travel notes: move through the airport quickly
Posted Mon Jul 13 00:09:43 2009

Weekly review: Week ending July 5, 2009
Posted Thu Jul 9 10:08:06 2009

From here to first frost
Posted Sun Jul 5 13:09:48 2009

Cat portrait session
Posted Sun Jul 5 12:26:21 2009

More strawberries!
Posted Sat Jul 4 18:34:59 2009

Hobbies for life
Posted Sat Jul 4 18:24:35 2009

Reflecting on how to prepare for workshops
Posted Fri Jul 3 16:53:20 2009

The fullness of days
Posted Thu Jul 2 18:15:29 2009

Hobby day holiday
Posted Wed Jul 1 21:26:27 2009

Recent photos
Posted Wed Jul 1 19:14:13 2009

Combining multiple social media services
Posted Wed Jul 1 14:50:46 2009

Thinking of a travel dossier
Posted Wed Jul 1 08:25:46 2009

Making business travel awesome
Posted Tue Jun 30 21:52:27 2009

Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project
Posted Tue Jun 30 11:32:06 2009

Changing hats
Posted Mon Jun 29 18:37:36 2009

Weekly review: Week ending June 28, 2009
Posted Mon Jun 29 16:07:43 2009

The joys of making things
Posted Sun Jun 28 18:24:55 2009