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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending March 16, 2012 — One-month anniversary of leaving employment and starting on my own. It was a good week, and I helped out a [...]
• 2011: Decision trees and self-challenges: how my laptop’s recent battery failure is a great excuse to think — The battery on my Lenovo X61 tablet refuses to hold a charge, and there seems to be no way to [...]
• 2010: Book recommendations for new grads — Kim Liu wanted to know which books I’d recommend for people who are starting out in the business world. Here [...]
• 2009: Five favorite Firefox add-ons for virtual assistants — I like helping people become more productive, particularly if that means they’ll get my work done faster or more effectively. [...]
• 2009: Monthly review: February 2009 — The key thing I learned in February 2009 is that delegation is something I can learn and something I can [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending March 15, 2009 — From last week: Finish phase of Transition2 project. Now doing testing and documentation. Prepare and deliver career talk on “Making a Name [...]
• 2009: Still looking for an awesome calendar management system — One of the things I do very badly is manage appointments. I can manage tasks.  I can manage time. But [...]
• 2006: Out early again — One of these days I really should resolve to go to sleep early - 10:00, maybe? – so that I can [...]
• 2006: Much fun chatting with James and Stefan — I had tons of fun chatting with James and Stefan about Romania (Stefan’s from there) and nearby places. One of the [...]
• 2005: FreeBSD ports for planner — From Dryice: I’ve got emacs-wiki, planner, and remember in the FreeBSD ports tree. Now FreeBSD users can install these all by cd /usr/ports/deskutils/remember.el make [...]
• 2004: Partial list of keywords for projects — :after A function to be run after marking up the buffer :before A function to be run before marking up the buffer :footer File to [...]
• 2004: Evangelizing for the Church of Emacs — I just wanted to thank you for your Emacs enthusiasm. It is very infectuous and helps me past some of the [...]
• 2003: tala’s open source interview — Not one of my most coherent responses, but it must be done. How do you/does your organization support and advocate Open [...]
• 2003: emacs-wiki major uhoh — Something is seriously screwing up some of my pages. NOTE: Make backup of correct plans! Must do damage control immediately.
• 2003: initsplit.el — From an emacs-devel message John Wiegley has a tool called initsplit.el on his web-site for breaking customizations into multiple files. The [...]
• 2003: rms citation style — Richard Stallman indents his quoted text. Not that I’m knocking it, but I should figure out how to get Gnus to [...]
• 2003: open source questionnaire — A student doing a research paper on open source asked me if I could be interviewed. I said yes, of [...]
• 2003: on why I do not judge poetry — Despite all the efforts of my English literature teachers (and a number of friends), I refuse to profess any ability to [...]