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On This Day...

• 2013: Rediscovering Emacs features, or what to do after you get carried away installing packages — A kid in a candy store – that’s me with M-x list-packages, EmacsWiki pages, Planet Emacsen, and other sources of [...]
• 2012: Experience report: So much for having a virtual bookstore — As part of my experiments in entrepreneurship, I decided to try out selling used books online. I like books, and [...]
• 2011: Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People — Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging on March 3, 2011 [...]
• 2010: Getting ready for a new adventure — I didn’t think about weddings when I was growing up. I didn’t clip pictures of pretty dresses or fantasize [...]
• 2009: VA Days: Rethinking web search and virtual assistance — While preparing a 6-minute demo of the way I use del.icio.us and Ubiquity to organize my web research, I had [...]
• 2009: VA Days: Refining web research process for virtual assistance — I do a lot of web research, and I’d like to be able to outsource that to a virtual assistant. [...]
• 2007: Wow — Just came back from dinner with Jane Zhang and Wayne Young… Wow! What wonderful conversation! What fun! Who knew she was [...]
• 2006: Finished my tenth speech! — I’m now eligible for the Competent Toastmaster (CTM) award! Hooray, hooray! My tenth speech was named “Cook or Die”, and I [...]
• 2006: Sweet potato and chicken vinaigrette salad — Level up! Purple sweet potato, cubed (1 inch) Chicken breast, cubed: can be leftovers Lettuce Vinaigrette, or balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper Put [...]
• 2006: Good Food Box: Pear Poofery — Here’s what in the Good Food Box for this fortnight: 2 lbs purple sweet potatoes 2.5 lbs yukon gold potatoes 1 broccoli 2 lbs carrots 1 pack mushrooms 1 lb beets 1 head romaine [...]
• 2005: Firedance — You’d expect a show called “Firedance” to have more than ten seconds of fire in it, right? And not just as [...]
• 2004: RSS aggregator — I’m looking for an RSS aggregator (web-based or command-line) that will take a list of feeds and produce an RSS feed. [...]
• 2004: Uh oh. — My pet arch-lich (polytrap) just killed the Oracle. I have a feeling that wasn’t supposed to happen. So far so good. [...]
• 2004: Dudley’s dungeon — http://dudley.nicolaas.net/ Dudley’s dungeon is a daily comic about NetHack and other important things in life, set in the familiar surroundings of the [...]
• 2003: thesis requirements — CS197. Senior Thesis / Project Presentation Schedule of defense will be on March 3. 2003 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM Requirements: Each group [...]
• 2003: cs161f exemptions — The following students can choose not to take the CS161 final exam: - 1. Francisco, Mike – 95.4 (A) - 2. Sy, [...]
• 2003: Mike Chua — “It’s a 16-way processor that allows you to consolidate your data center. I’m going to play with one of these!”