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On This Day...

• 2012: Thinking about a Quantified Self directory — So we were talking about a directory of people interested in Quantified Self, and I want to think about what [...]
• 2011: IBM Comic: Watson on helpdesk duty; variants — I wasn’t sure which variant would work out best, so I’ll let the intranet editorial team pick their favourite, and [...]
• 2010: Week ending September 19, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [-] Support Classroom to Client: Collect lessons learned and create new material – People are busy [...]
• 2008: Two-week review: 2 weeks ending September 19 — What an eventful two weeks! My presentation on new media and the new generation in Washington was a lot of fun. [...]
• 2005: Hmm. Must hack my breathing. — Breathing has been sub-optimal these past few days. It seems I run out of breath so quickly, and when I do [...]
• 2005: Networking for Geeks: Finding the Bleeding Edge through del.icio.us — Want to plunge into a field? Here’s how to figure out who the early adopters are and what you should be [...]
• 2003: Tracking people’s history — FROM http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html 4.10.9 Hand-made user auditing If you are paranoid you might want to add a system-wide /etc/profile that sets the environment in [...]
• 2003: align-regexp — C-u M-x align-regexp RET \(\s-*\)| RET RET RET y RET will align planner tables beautifully.
• 2003: CS21A today — (education, cs21a) We had a particularly fun CS21A session today. I wanted them to learn how to grow an array and [...]
• 2003: Encouragement =) — (good karma) Date: Wed Sep 17 14:24:33 2003 +0800 Dear Sacha, First of all, thank you for your presentation at PSITE’s first national [...]
• 2003: Automatic UPDATE on INSERT — MySQL 4.1 (in alpha) now supports automatic UPDATE if INSERTing on existing row http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Nutshell_4.1_features.html Whee! That will make coding _way_ simpler.