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On This Day...

• 2012: Things that I’ve used Emacs for — Emacs can do a ton thanks to the code that people have contributed over the decades. Here’s a list of [...]
• 2011: Kaizen in the little things: The way the door opens — One of my principles is kaizen: continuous improvement. If you can make your life 1% better every day, you’ll double [...]
• 2011: Cook Or Die Season II: Community-Supported Agriculture — My “Cook or Die” project started when I moved into an apartment-style dormitory shortly after university. My room was equipped [...]
• 2010: I want to learn how to draw better — Someday I want to make things as pretty and communicative as Mike Rohde’s sketchnotes, Erica Glasier’s blog posts, [...]
• 2007: Raw book notes: Outside INnovation by Patricia B. Seybold: 15:56 — I borrowed this book from the library and finished it the same day. It’s a great read for customer evangelists and [...]
• 2006: Sugar high — And for the people who think I live life on a perpetual sugar high: During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated [...]
• 2006: Treo on Linux — Sweet. I want one… <laugh> Linux! Random Japanese sentence: 私は犬の方が猫より好きだが、それは前者が後者より忠実だからだ。 I like a dog better than a cat, for the former is [...]
• 2006: Alienware — Check out the keyboard. Interesting… =) From Chris Ball: blog.printf.net Random Japanese sentence: 鬼の居ぬ間に洗濯。 When the cat is away, the mice will play.[Proverb]
• 2006: Looking for GNOME geekettes! — Chris Ball wrote: If you might have any contacts to help get the word out about a project we’ve just launched over [...]
• 2006: Awesome! — The IBM summit is _totally_ awesome! And quite unbloggable, so I’ll just take encrypted notes… Let’s just say that once again, [...]
• 2006: Next slide, please — “Next slide, please.” You know, I really should just buy myself a nice wireless presenter’s mouse. I’ll be totally popular at [...]
• 2004: Prepared for CS21A — Okay, I should be satisfactorily prepared for CS21A now. For Dr. Sarmenta’s class, I can walk through parts of the lab [...]
• 2004: Pasta carbonara out of a package — Finally got around to trying out the packaged carbonara mix. It was okay, although a bit on the salty side. It [...]
• 2004: Reflections on class today — - CS21A-B: **OK:** The mail system simulation mostly worked, although it could still be tweaked slightly. His slides were okay, too. **NI:** [...]