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On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending October 28, 2011 — New work laptop! Awesome. The Lenovo T420 (1600×900 resolution) is even wider than my X220i. Setting it up was relatively [...]
• 2010: Speaking: In case of emergency, break glass — IBM Fellow John Cohn shares a tale of two talks: one that sucked, and another that rocked. [...]
• 2009: How I met Jeff Muzzerall — It’s a small world, particularly for those who work to make it smaller. I helped organize a two-day brainstorming conversation across [...]
• 2008: Week ending Oct 26 — So late! =) I’ve been very busy. What I did last week: Facilitated a session on Gen Y during the IBM Innovation [...]
• 2008: Back on the ground; lessons from Innovation Discovery Tel Aviv and CASCON — It’s good to finally be on the ground. It’s been a crazy two weeks, so I’ve been blogging very little. From [...]
• 2006: Halloween party downstairs, but not in the mood — The Graduate House Halloween bash is still going on downstairs. The loud whoops seem to indicate that people are still having [...]
• 2005: Vision — Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung E-Mail from [...]
• 2004: Oct 22 to Oct 29 — From Oct 22 to Oct 29, I worked on a simple calculator. Naganuma gave us basic specifications and templates for detailed [...]
• 2004: Learning technical Japanese — I’ve figured out what I really like about this situation. It’s an amazing opportunity to rapidly pick up a foreign language, [...]
• 2003: Try Science! — education — http://www.tryscience.org/ Dominique Cimafranca brought this excellent site to my attention. It’s geared more toward K-12, but it has lots of interesting experiments. I wonder [...]
• 2003: Not much happened today — Filed for a change of grade because I should have graded someone on the undergraduate scale instead of the graduate scale. Having [...]
• 2003: Whoa, I got newslogged in Dutch — http://www.osplatform.nl/nieuws/2003/filipijnen/Filipijnen.htm
• 2003: Elisp snippet for sucking data into BBDB — (defun sacha/suck-data-into-bbdb (notes) "Create BBDB data given NOTES. The region should contain data of the form: name | company | e-mail" [...]
• 2003: Migration document from Windows to Linux — http://www.kbst.bund.de/Anlage303777/pdf_datei.pdf
• 2003: Controlled dual-booting — linux — From Slashdot: Set up Lilo with two targets: Linux and Winders. Make Linux the default target to boot to. When you’re inside of [...]
• 2003: Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX with CrossOver Office — http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/28/031219&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=152&tid=163&tid=185 So apparently it works now, but CrossOver Office is still a bit expensive… I hope the straight WINE people get it [...]