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On This Day...

• 2011: Tweaking my Windows 7 setup more: Emacs on all virtual desktops! — I’ve been using VirtuaWin to set up four virtual desktops on my computer. This makes it easy to group applications: [...]
• 2010: Cleaning up HTML from Microsoft Word — I often see HTML pasted in from Microsoft Word. It has a lot of non-standard and irrelevant code in it, [...]
• 2009: Find your attention wandering during teleconferences? — Find your attention wandering during teleconferences? The temptation to check your mail or surf the Web is hard to resist [...]
• 2008: It’s a little bit scary — I feel a bit nervous. There’s a lot of shifting around, and lots of things I wonder about, too. I’m [...]
• 2007: Remembering what should go in the book — Writing a book about an open source editor and its extensions is difficult. I want to describe many of the things [...]
• 2005: Who needs a gym when there’s laundry to be done? — Whew. Bushed. I’ve taken all my cold-weather clothes out of vacuum-packed bags and hung them up neatly. I washed all my [...]
• 2005: Hey! I’m in the ACM Digital Library! — ACM Digital Library entry for Taming the TODO Okay, I’ve officially screwed up in terms of names now… All of my research [...]
• 2005: Bookmarking beyond the browser — Bookmarking web pages is a breeze with tag-based bookmarking services like del.icio.us, which reduced the need for up-front organization and [...]
• 2005: More thoughts about Google — My computing dream: universal bookmarking My dream for computing is universal bookmarking. I want to be able to bookmark and link to [...]
• 2004: Typhoon — A typhoon is supposed to hit our area tomorrow, so I’ve taken the precautions of removing my clothes from the balcony. [...]
• 2004: Halloween coming up — Looks like people are gearing up for Halloween. I’m looking forward to seeing the costumes. Fortunately, the 31st is a Sunday. [...]
• 2004: LAZYBONES — The lambanog-soaked farmer snored, lulled to sleep by the carabao’s steady rhythm as it navigated the muddy trail home. The coarse, [...]
• 2004: On obfuscating e-mail messages — Responded to a thread on PLUG with http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2004-October/037001.html: > Unfortunately, there is evidence that spambots have gained in > 'intelligence' (if one [...]
• 2004: More uncharacteristically business-y thoughts — The inner marketing geek resurfaced in an e-mail to Sean. By the way, I’m not recommending being insincere. I’m just recommending looking [...]
• 2003: 10 things about life Hong Kong taught me in 24 hours, from Kathy — According to Kathy, my sister: 10 things about life Hong Kong taught me in 24 hours. 1. It pays to be a [...]
• 2003: Gender confusion again — From someone whom I shall keep anonymous (pfft!): From: "***** *. *****" Subject: RE: Linux Expo To: "'Sacha Chua'" sacha, are you [...]