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2026-05-26Summer Projects
2026-04-01Current Projects
2026-03-26Classifying Research Software
2025-12-19The Year That Was
2025-12-06Remembrance
2025-09-04If I Retired
2025-03-15A Poem
2025-01-15Charlie Brown
2024-12-29Jimmy Carter
2024-12-01Never Look Back
2024-10-20A Wish List
2024-04-29Where the Time Went
2024-02-25My Last To-Don't List
2023-11-29A Walk in the Park
2023-05-19Paid Off
2023-05-02Closing Time
2023-04-24The Old Guy
2023-03-31Happy Birthday, Maddie
2023-03-04How Long Does It Take Me?
2023-02-04Where the Time Goes
2023-01-25Blackberries
2023-01-07Hey! I Wasn't Done Yet!
2023-01-01Plans for the Year
2022-11-18Still Trying
2022-11-13A Combinatoric Geometry Problem
2022-07-23Side by Side
2022-06-20Dev Ed Book Club
2021-07-22I Hope They Would Have Liked It
2021-06-19A Magic USB Drive
2021-04-19Evening and Morning Routine
2021-04-07Meals
2021-03-15Homework
2021-03-09Books for Africa
2021-01-09Pickled Carrots
2020-10-17Australian Wildlife
2020-08-20Progress
2020-08-16Give It All Away
2020-07-31Moth
2020-07-26Presentable
2020-05-27Marble Race
2020-05-24Sunday Nights
2020-01-13The Doors Are Quiet Now
2020-01-11Half a Century
2020-01-07Goodbye, Mum
2020-01-05Knitting
2019-12-06Remembrance
2019-11-13Gage Park
2019-11-13Night Watch
2019-10-26Family
2019-10-25In Bloom
2019-09-22Ecosystems
2019-09-13Wind Chimes in the Rain
2019-08-20Riding at Night
2019-07-22Third Walls and Eighth Bolts
2019-06-20Typography
2019-05-20Simon Charlie Made This
2019-05-19And Then Another
2019-04-14The People You Have
2019-03-24Occupations
2019-02-20Durations
2019-01-30Why I Teach (Revisited)
2018-12-24Be Grateful for the Present You Got
2018-12-08The Third Wall
2018-11-28My To-Don't List
2018-08-31High and Low, One by One or All Together
2018-08-14Our Last Game
2018-08-13Authoring
2018-03-20Goodbye, Jeff
2018-02-27I'm Missing
2017-12-23All the Other Santas
2017-12-06Remembrance
2017-12-06The New Standard Model
2017-11-28My Favorite Tool - Asking for Help
2017-11-11Remembrance Day
2017-11-02Once Upon a Time
2017-09-21Dad With His Birdhouses
2017-09-13Long Thoughts
2017-01-01Blogging
2016-12-06Remembrance
2016-11-09They Would Both Have Had Things to Say
2016-10-29The Rest Is Yet To Come
2016-08-26Markers
2016-08-08Smooch
2016-06-04Knitting
2016-02-24Books Away
2015-12-06Just Keep Swimming
2015-11-23How I Handle Email
2015-11-16Catch and Release
2015-11-09Daddy, Why Don't You Ever Laugh?
2015-10-23Our Stairs
2015-09-22Goodbye, Dad
2015-06-19Their Names Were
2015-03-12Goodbye, Terry
2015-03-11What's In Your Bag?
2014-11-07Amdahl's Law and Software Carpentry
2014-04-24Hand Made
2014-04-15This Is Why I Don't Write Any More
2013-11-10Three Old Men Drinking Tea
2013-09-24To Tell You the Truth…
2013-07-28Chillin'
2013-03-28That's My Secret, Captain…
2013-01-04Five Things
2012-12-26Why I Didn't Like 'The Dark Knight Rises'
2012-10-31Princess Darth Vader
2012-08-14Cover Stories
2012-06-10Where the Time Goes
2012-05-22She Can Ride Her Bike!
2012-04-11Lives Lived
2012-04-06On Crossing Australia
2012-04-06Greener Grass
2012-02-29Inbound and Outbound for a Day
2012-01-23A Better Solution to the Final Problem
2012-01-21We Have Nothing To Give Them
2011-12-21Well, I Think the Gray Makes Me Look Distinguished
2011-12-06Lest We Forget
2011-11-27Day 27 of Movember 2011
2011-11-08Happy Birthday
2011-11-02The 1970s Called…
2011-10-21What I Like Doing
2011-10-20My Aspect Ratio Seems to Have Changed
2011-10-11Running Partners
2011-09-27A Buddhist For Three Weeks
2011-09-20If Only This Thing Had An Engine!
2011-08-24And We'll Change The World
2011-08-23Jack Layton: 1950-2011
2011-08-21Today Was a Good Day
2011-08-19You're Going to Show This to People When I'm Grown Up, Aren't You?
2011-08-06Muriel (Jo) Campbell: 1930-2011
2011-07-29Cheese!
2011-06-12Daddy, What's Wrong?
2011-04-25Sunday
2011-04-06It's Complicated
2011-03-1812 Days Ago
2011-03-15A Season of Changes
2011-02-20Sweaters
2011-02-09Let's Talk
2011-01-28StreetKnit on Canada AM
2010-12-27You're Never Too Old for Space Camp
2010-10-28An Uncertain Thing
2010-10-27ComputerWorld Canada Educator of the Year
2010-09-27Knitters Needed!
2010-09-05Games I'll Never Make
2010-08-1643% Independent
2010-05-07World Record Knitting Attempt Saturday June 12
2010-04-25…And Thanks For All The Fish
2010-04-07How Do You See Maps?
2010-03-31Happy Birthday, Madeleine
2010-03-18Wise Daughters and Winter's End
2010-03-04This Is How I Want My Daughter To Think
2010-02-28Winter!
2010-02-09Signs of the Times
2010-01-13Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You?
2010-01-05Web Workflows and Public Embarrassment
2009-12-11Reflectus
2009-12-05Twenty Years
2009-09-29Good Day, Knitters
2009-09-08Why I Teach (Part 3)
2009-07-09Goodbye, Pages
2009-06-24Buckaroo Banzai vs. Search & Replace
2009-06-24At Least It's Not Exponential
2009-06-22Off We Go…
2009-06-15Crunch Mode and Burnout
2009-05-01The Week in Review
2009-03-22Why I Read Less Science Fiction Than I Used To
2009-03-10Things I'd Like to Accomplish (Version 2)
2009-02-05A Story's Not Really Over…
2009-01-277 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Me
2009-01-26Where My Time Is Going
2009-01-11Where My Time Goes
2008-12-26Things I'd Like To Finish In the Next 489 Days
2008-12-2440 Years Ago
2008-11-24StreetKnit is Back!
2008-11-15The Family Has Landed
2008-10-05No, It Isn't Photoshopped
2008-09-16Life? Don't Talk to Me About Life…
2008-08-22Married
2008-07-28This Week in Greg
2008-07-21Mail Traffic Over Time
2008-07-19Just Another Saturday
2008-07-14Paraphrase
2008-07-09Portrait of the Author
2008-07-03But Dad…
2008-07-01Midsummer Resolution
2008-06-17New Pics
2008-06-12Where the Time Goes
2008-06-09Directions
2008-06-04A Surprisingly Small Piece of Paper
2008-05-04Summer Indulgences
2008-05-04StreetKnit in the News
2008-04-18Zis Is Cursed, Zat Is Cursed
2008-04-15Pogy Travel Crib
2008-04-09Morning Routine
2008-03-24First Steps
2008-03-21For The Record
2008-03-19StreetKnit in the Press Again
2008-03-15Streetknit + Spins & Needles
2008-03-06Conservation of Happiness
2008-03-04Writing Is a Drug
2008-02-27Making the World a Better Place
2008-01-28First Figure Out What You Want to Change
2008-01-25Recycled Words: knismesis
2008-01-17Where My Life Goes
2008-01-01Bubbles
2007-12-31To Do
2007-12-16Count 'Em
2007-12-13Welcome Caden to the World
2007-12-02Knitting a Home
2007-11-28Great Balls Of…Yarn
2007-11-22StreetKnit in the Star
2007-10-30It's All a Matter of Perspective
2007-10-17More Fun Than Code
2007-08-31Back Yard Beautiful
2007-08-01Daaaahling
2007-07-28To Do for Fall 2007
2007-07-28Let Me See…Is It Control-Shift-J?
2007-07-27Madeleine, Sadie, and Greg
2007-07-25British Columbia
2007-07-16Attacked by Hippos
2007-06-28Today
2007-06-18Three Years Old
2007-06-16IM Groups
2007-06-16Mass Customization
2007-06-12England: the Three of Us, and Four Generations
2007-04-13Streetknit and the Scott Mission
2007-03-31Madeleine Erica Wilson
2006-12-29Eleven Weeks to Go
2006-12-21Galcon for the Holidays
2006-11-01She's a Girl!
2006-10-22And I Thought *I* Worried a Lot…
2006-10-20The Baby Just Kicked!
2006-07-06What I Know About Playing the Bass
2006-04-16Bobet on Tushingham
2006-01-17George Cukor, Hugo Weaving, and Gene Kelly
2005-12-23Procrastination: One of the Few Things in Life Nicer Than Toast
2005-12-07Teaching Computer Science in 2006
2005-10-18Next Steps
2005-06-29True North strong, free, and equal
2004-12-30Why I Teach
2004-09-20Essential Equipment