2012: Tweaking my scheduling process for delegation — Scheduling stresses me out. I’ve had several calendar hiccups before: wrong dates, ambiguous locations, no contact information (or incorrect ones!), [...]
2011: Quantified Awesome: Why I track — People often ask me why I measure what I measure. I do it because I’m curious, and measurement lets me [...]
2006: Dinner with a technology evangelist — When Kaleem invited me to dinner with Betsy Weber, chief evangelist at
TechSmith, I immediately cleared my
schedule and accepted. After all, [...]
2005: Back at the beginning — The last class of tango was today. We ended on a strange note,
realizing how much more there is to learn. [...]
2005: Brain Gain Network – Philippines — Get to meet other geeks and tech-savvy business people at the Techie Palooza to be held by Brain Gain Network [...]
2003: Cool elisp hack! — I’ve gotten the bot-like improvements I wanted thanks to these snippets of elisp code:
(require 'hippie-exp)
(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list
[...]
2003: ERC+BBDB —
(add-to-list 'erc-nick-popup-alist '("BBDB" . (bbdb nick nil)))
2003: Automatic encryption of wiki pages — From EmacsWiki#AutoEncryption
;; crypt++ – i use this in conjunction with emacs-wiki
(require ‘crypt++)
(setq crypt-encryption-type ‘mcrypt
crypt-encryption-file-extension “\\(Secure\\)$\\|\\(\\.enc\\)$”)
(setq emacs-wiki-ignored-extensions-regexp “\\.\\(bz2\\|gz\\|[Zz]\\|enc\\)\\’”)
2003: HideShow mode — M-x hs-minor-mode
I think I rather like hs-hide-all…
(defun sacha/hs-minor-mode-hide-all ()
"Turn on `hs-minor-mode' and hide everything."
(hs-minor-mode 1)
[...]
2003: Things to try in class — education — http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Secondtier.html
- One-minute papers: most important point made in the lecture and the single most pressing unanswered question
- Encourage or mandate [...]
2003: Learning styles — http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/LS-1988.pdf
The paper has important insights. I learn inductively – from complex
examples, I try to figure out principles and ideas. However, [...]
2003: No-host trackbacks — http://brutalhugs.com/trackback/
Maybe I can use this to add trackbacks and comments to my semi-static
pages! =) It’ll require Javascript, though…
Oh, but they’re [...]
Charles Cave Terrific presentation Sacha - thank you! I will let you know how I use Evernote. – Jun 19, 5:50 PM
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