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On This Day...

• 2013: Got Emacs questions? Let’s try Emacs tutoring / pair programming! — Getting started with Emacs? Need help tweaking your Emacs configuration? Curious about the tools and packages out there? Want to [...]
• 2012: Visual book notes: How to Read a Book — (Click on the image for a larger version of the notes.) Whenever I want to pick up more tips on how [...]
• 2011: Monthly review: February 2011 — February was an interesting month at work. Lots of presentations, for one – that’s the easy part. Lotusphere was quite [...]
• 2010: On circumstances and somebodies — How much of a role does luck play in success? A lot. Malcolm Gladwell goes into this in great detail [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2008: Wow. Physics can be phun. — Props to Michael McGuffin for this awesome find: Phun – 2D physics sandbox. Watch the demo or download it and [...]
• 2008: Wow. Physics can be phun. — Props to Michael McGuffin for this awesome find: Phun – 2D physics sandbox. Watch the demo or download it and [...]
• 2008: Working on the book — Now that I have an idea of what a good Wicked Cool Emacs book chapter looks like, I find it [...]
• 2006: Song for Mary, O Canada — I knew the anthem I heard during a broadcast of the Winter Olympics sounded familiar. In fact, it sounded almost exactly [...]
• 2004: Backlog of blog entries: MOTAS, March 5 — So I was playing Mystery of Time and Space in class, thanks to the students who pointed me to it. I [...]
• 2004: How to get involved in Free Software (the bug method) — http://blog.syntaxpolice.org/isaac/index.cgi/technology/contributingToFS.html Nice observation, and how I got started myself!
• 2004: XML and Emacs Lisp — http://elisp.info/
• 2004: Preliminary VM support for planner — You can create tasks from VM messages and virtual folders, and you can jump to URLs of the form vm:// INBOX [...]
• 2004: Open house — To formally welcome you to the DISCS open house is the Dean of SOSE, Dr. Fabian Dayrit. Objective: - Recruitment activity, been [...]
• 2004: “Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious” — Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs used Intelliseek’s BlogPulse Web crawler to mine numerous Weblogs, after which they mapped out the connections and topics [...]
• 2004: My classes next sem — CS21A B MW 8:30 – 9:30 F-227 CS21A B F 7:30 – 9:30 F-227 CS21A F MWF 10:30 – 11:30 F-228 CS152B A W 1:30 – 4:30 F-228 CS152B B F 1:30 – 4:30 F-228 Oooh, cool, MWF schedule.
• 2004: Smileys — I think I smiley too much. That’s probably because I smile too much, too. All this GoodKarma floating around… Agh! I nearly put [...]
• 2004: Warm and fuzzy feelings — Hi sachac :-) i've been following your planner mode pages for a while, I must say it's [...]
• 2004: Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp — http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html Link from Will Glozer (arete on the emacs channel)
• 2004: Girls just wanna defun — http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00103.html Girls just wanna defun(1) I can’t wake up, in the morning Cause of what I’ve been doing for most of the night. Teacher [...]
• 2003: hey, my rant’s on william yu’s website! — http://cng.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/misc/rants/sacha.php An interesting piece by the PLUG mailing list’s resident Linux .NET winner. Congratulations! This email was taken from the PLUG [...]
• 2003: guerrero@globetel.com.ph — contact re: class and contests
• 2003: application ideas — - School: I would definitely like to have a device that could correlate images and phone numbers while someone is [...]
• 2003: application idea — Ballroom dancing steps?
• 2003: ask about fwd lock and DRM for content that can be freely share —
• 2003: technical difficulties — - I don’t have a CD drive. - I don’t have infrared, either. - Serial port? Parallel port? What are those?