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On This Day...

• 2011: Sketchnotes from Democamp Toronto 29, June 2011 — UPDATE: 2011-06-10: Made demo notes more visual. =) Highlights from Social Leverage talk by Howard Lindzon. Keep an eye on the [...]
• 2011: Drush, Simpletest, and continuous integration for Drupal using Jenkins (previously Hudson) — One of my development goals is to learn how to set up continuous integration so that I’ll always remember to [...]
• 2010: The work of self-understanding — I’ve been taking advantage of the company’s free e-counseling service to pick a counselor’s brain about marriage. When I told [...]
• 2009: Asus EEE 1008HA and Ubuntu: Keep a USB drive handy — I’d been thinking about getting a netbook for a while, but I’d felt guilty over the two ultraportables languishing in [...]
• 2008: Learning Japanese? Here are some useful resources — One of my friends is planning to learn Japanese, so I thought I’d put together some tips for him and [...]
• 2006: Wisdom teeth — My upper wisdom teeth are coming in. Am slightly cranky. Also, terrified. Apparently, wisdom teeth are routinely removed here, under some kind [...]
• 2005: Automatically scheduling tasks onto TaskPool — (defadvice planner-create-task-from-buffer (before paul activate) "Automatically schedule task onto TaskPool as well as other projects." (if plan-page [...]
• 2003: Richard Klinda’s w3m customizations — (setq ign-rus-format '(case source-type ('article (cond ((string-match "newsletters" [...]
• 2003: pinoyjug pfft — I post a long, well-thought-out message on pinoyjug about helping people and why I prefer guiding students over answering their [...]
• 2003: Cool Emacs snapshots — I want to eventually fix my Emacs to look like Richard Klinda‘s funky w3m customizations. http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ml/msg03995.html has the goods.