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On This Day...

• 2011: Monthly reviews: April and May 2011 — Time flies! Travel throws me a little off track when it comes to reviewing, but that’s okay – I’m back [...]
• 2010: Influence map; introspection — My mom asked me to make an influence map. Here’s my first draft: (click for a bigger version) The map is an [...]
• 2009: Gardening — W- and I took the day off to set up our vegetable plot, with lots of great help from Laura [...]
• 2007: High school — Reconnecting with old friends—the sudden, arresting realization of the motion of time. And then of course there’s the update—who’s where [...]
• 2006: BBDB pinging code — I love tweaking Emacs to fit the way I work. Here’s some code to make it easier to keep track [...]
• 2006: Anxiety — Photo by Automatt, licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution) After reading my post about being a girl, one of my closest friends [...]
• 2006: Blackberries and such — John Sullivan said: You’ve really got to get a comment system working on your blog :) There are a lot of new [...]
• 2006: David Crow 2.0 — My experience of Toronto has always been that of a vibrant tech life, but everyone tells me that this really [...]
• 2006: Reading list — Peter Dawson just sent me his knowledge management reading list for the second quarter. What an excellent idea! I should read [...]
• 2004: Operating systems as anime characters — Mario wrote: Something cute i found. Basically, its a short flash movie intro and ending to a hypothetical anime where the characters [...]
• 2003: Teaching journal — I promise to keep a teaching journal on this site. At the very least, it will make me reflect, yes? You [...]
• 2003: Ooooh! =) —   First of all, I want to congratulate you for being 19 and successful in your career. I wish that I can [...]
• 2003: sample popping up — (x-popup-menu `((0 0) ,(get-window-with-predicate (lambda (win) t))) (tmm-get-keybind [menu-bar])) keymap prompt (keymap-prompt (cadr (tmm-get-keybind [menu-bar])))
• 2003: Menu caching — The menu bar does not recalculate which items are enabled every time you look at a menu. This is because the [...]
• 2003: real-binding — If REAL-BINDING is a symbol and has a non-`nil’ `menu-enable’ property, that property is an expression that controls whether the menu item [...]
• 2003: yatm hmms — Hmm, I will need to store the menu somewhere, as it changes when I’m in the yatm buffer.