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On This Day...

• 2012: Sketchnotes: Venus Ventures Town Hall — Click on the image for a larger version. Please feel free to share this under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence. If [...]
• 2011: From the feeds: Development, food, connecting with people, e-books, finance — Drupal / Rails development: John (from john & cailin) posted good interview tips for hiring Drupal developers. A comment in [...]
• 2010: Week beginnings — What day does your week start on? It’s the same seven days, but where you start can influence how you [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending November 22, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Work Facilitate Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston Facilitate tech prep call for training community Support [...]
• 2009: Thinking about my personal learning environment — I was thinking about what I learn and how I learn it.   Experience Blogs Books Communities Mentors Classes Life High Medium Medium Medium Medium   Web 2.0 Medium High High High Medium   Presentation High Medium High Medium Medium   Drupal High Low   Medium     Emacs High Low   Medium     Organizational knowledge Medium Medium   High High   Drawing High Low Medium       Personal finance Medium Medium Medium       Productivity High High High       Sewing High Low Medium     Low Leadership Low Medium High   Medium   Delegation Medium           Looking at this, I can see [...]
• 2008: Stock image series — Peter Bauer wondered where I got the images in my presentation on Blogging Your Way Out of Your Job… and [...]
• 2008: Virtuoso — While I was in Montreal, Michael McGuffin told me about Cecile Licad, a Filipino pianist who’s done some remarkable things. [...]
• 2007: First accumulated snowfall — When I opened the door this morning to freezing rain and accumulated snowfall on the ground, I nearly turned around and [...]
• 2007: Manage from your calendar, not from your task list — While reading other blogs, I came across this nugget: Manage your life from the calendar, not the to-do list. Sally McGhee, [...]
• 2005: Winter — I still owe mom a picture of me all bundled up in winter gear. Wednesday is -5..0 (yikes!), but no snow. [...]
• 2005: Addressing envelopes by hand… — I wonder if I’ll be able to send my Christmas letter on time. If not, well, at least I’ll be following [...]
• 2004: Page rank and thoughts on online popularity — Warning: this entry not expected to be coherent. Following one of my software mantras, I will get this entry out the [...]
• 2004: Draft: Surviving College — I received a note from Fr. Alden, the principal of Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos (San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Philippines). He gives [...]
• 2003: Getting the hang of slides — I’m starting to get the hang of <gasp> lecturing – I can prepare slides and talk. I find I’m much more [...]
• 2003: At last! The jigsaw puzzle’s mounted! — The thing that took 16+ hours of my life is now properly mounted on illustration board – nicely centered, too, as [...]
• 2003: Book notes for programming contest history — - organize by year - mike line number - neil no indententation - curriculum now used, but spread over several months - kicked out [...]
• 2003: Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Neil Ongkingko is looking for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, paper or electronic
• 2003: Standalone trackback — http://www.movabletype.org/docs/tb-standalone.html Must ask Richi very nicely about this.
• 2003: link text handling — deleted
• 2003: link text handling — deleted
• 2003: link text handling — Oh, blast. I think there’s no easy way to handle tasks created from notes, at least not if it’s in the [...]
• 2003: Tasks from notes — On day pages, a task created from a note should contain a reference to the note. However, only one task should [...]
• 2003: Spiffy new website look — Stolen shamelessly from John Wiegley
• 2003: Debian problems — Looks like some Debian machines were cracked. According to forcer: - master (Bug Tracking System) - murphy (mailing lists) - gluck (web, cvs) - klecker [...]
• 2003: Official maintainer — I am now the official maintainer of remember.el, another fine module authored by John Wiegley. I’ve been using it to maintain this wikiblog. [...]
• 2003: More elegantly fixed the whitespace problem — Now allowing planner-annotation-functions to return t which means no annotation.
• 2003: Fixed the whitespace problem with planner links. —
• 2003: I think there’s too much whitespace. — ../../notebook/emacs/remember/remember.el
• 2003: And now, testing the reverse-chronological bloggy nature of it all — For more goodness!
• 2003: Testing the new remember: does it really work? — If it works, I should see a timestamp above. ../../notebook/emacs/remember/remember.el