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On This Day...

• 2011: Thinking about getting better at decisions — I like analyzing my decisions. Writing about the alternatives I consider helps me think about them more deeply. Reviewing my [...]
• 2010: Getting the WordPress Lifestream plugin to work on my blog — I’ve been thinking about including a digest of Twitter, Delicious bookmarks, Google Reader shared items, and other social activity in [...]
• 2008: Emacs and w3m: Making tabbed browsing easier — If you browse with a lot of open tabs, like I do, w3m will be much easier to use once [...]
• 2007: Woohoo! — My department followed up on my delayed letter of confirmation, and they found someone at SGS who’s willing to do it. [...]
• 2006: Dinner went well — Had a terrific dinner conversation with people named in the second e-mail I sent today. Will blog more tomorrow or Thursday [...]
• 2005: Spending time with my mom — One of the best things about keeping a TODO list is being able to spend time on things that are important [...]
• 2005: Life on a good network — Pulling packages from ftp.ca.debian.org: Total Progress: [ 54% ] (3173kB/s, 1m27s remaining) Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
• 2003: TeachingReflections and BlueJ — “Mr. Dee” wrote in with this: I think BlueJ (www.bluej.org) is a good Java teaching environment. And there’s a simple class [...]
• 2003: Dr. Garcia needs help with Epson stylus c43sx — He’s having problems compiling CVS source of gimp-print.
• 2003: Removing messages from the postfix mail queue — Helped bronaugh with this problem today. postsuper -d queue_id
• 2003: Jops’s thesis is on Filipino text-to-speech — jopsi15@hotmail.com text preprocessing for Filipino text-to-speech synthesis
• 2003: “Reasons to Avoid Microsoft” — http://www.lugod.org/microsoft/ From the author: The little icons across the top act as filters. e.g., click the little school-house icon to see how [...]
• 2003: MimerDesk press release — Espoo, Finland — September 11, 2003 — The new stable release of MimerDesk introduces Type sets for the freedom of choice [...]
• 2003: Eric is trying to memorize pi — Geek power and all of that.
• 2003: Sorting animations — From Christine: This is an interesting site Fanny found that illustrates the sorting algorithms, including a step-by-step animation! It is a java [...]
• 2002: (Thu Sep 12:57 2002, 2002.09.12) — I realize that my system is still mostly unusable. tmm-menu speaks ==>
• 2002: (Thu Sep 12:01 2002, 2002.09.12) — Some confusion about when Roosevelt died. See, it would be so nice to have Google..
• 2002: (Thu Sep 12:07 2002,2002.09.12) — (global-set-key (kbd “<f9> R SPC”) ‘planner-remember-region) w00t. It just works.
• 2002: Checking remember with timestamp (Thu Sep 12:18 2002,2002.09.12) — Hey, I think this actually works.