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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 3): Blogging and other social tools — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Towards equity — In one of the sessions of a women’s leadership course at work, we were talking about our reactions on a [...]
• 2009: Brainstorming around Smart Work — IBM’s holding another one of its awesome collaboration jams (72-hour web-based brainstorming/discussion), this time on Smart Work. I’m passionate about helping [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Making our build system better — Hooray! We have running code, and we’re about to make another release after our code exits quality assurance. This means, [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Programmatically installing and enabling modules in the .install file — To make configuration management easier, we decided to make sure that all behavior-related changes are in the source code repository. [...]
• 2006: Domain name — At some point in time, I think I should go for figuring out how to do my mail properly so that [...]
• 2006: Emacs clinic at the Linux Caffe — Quinn Fung needed some help with Muse and RDF so that she could easily generate RSS feeds from Emacs, so [...]
• 2006: Emacs: Changing the font size on the fly — I have a tiny laptop: 8.9″ diagonally. With a 1024×768 pixels screen resolution, things can get *pretty* small. The following functions [...]
• 2006: Getting sound to work again — Things to remember when setting up sound in Ubuntu Linux on a Sony Vaio U1: modprobe trident modprobe snd_trident Be very very thorough [...]
• 2005: Discovering exercise — Today I not only discovered my inner nerd, but I also started down the long and slippery path of cultivating [...]
• 2003: Hyper in Emacs — Apparently, hyper in Emacs is C-x @ h if you haven’t bound a key to it. To wit, C-h c C-x [...]
• 2003: Debian pre-installed laptops — Doh! Debian.org already has a page that lists vendors that will pre-install Debian here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
• 2003: canna-chasendic — a Japanese dictionary for ChaSen derived from Canna dictionary — * Package name : canna-chasendic Version [...]
• 2003: Filipino speech corpus — From Ramil Sagum: the link for http://www.upd.edu.ph/~dsp/speech.html is wrong. =) whoever updated the site preffered .htm’s rather than .html’s. The Filipino speech corpus [...]