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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 13): On frequency — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: I just got an Android phone — From Phone Thanks to W’s fine research and comparison shopping, I bought an Android phone off Craigslist. I’ve just installed Tasker [...]
• 2009: Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston — Last week, I facilitated my fourth Innovation Discovery workshop. I learned a lot! Here are a few quick reflections: The account [...]
• 2007: Career statement: Helping companies help people connect — Here’s my first attempt at a career statement which captures why I’m at IBM: Helping companies help people connect What does that [...]
• 2007: Another day, another blog — Starting yet another blog because I want something that I can update and cross-post from anywhere and I haven’t quite [...]
• 2006: Friday night at a cafe — You gotta love this life. Friday night at a cafe, hot chocolate with my best friend, plenty of good books [...]
• 2006: Sweet blog setup — I’ve figured out a terrific way to read IBM blogs. They’re automatically prioritized, too. I read it in Emacs, of [...]
• 2006: Gotta check out wesabe — No one in Web 2.0 can spell. But Wesabe looks interesting. It’s a Web 2.0 budget tracking thing with tips. [...]
• 2006: Live music at the Linux Caffe — There are few things in life that are better than finding out that one of your favorite cafes has live music [...]
• 2006: Oh, wow — Have I mentioned yet how much I *love* the University of Toronto library? Full-text access to the Harvard Business Review, hello… Random [...]
• 2005: National novel-writing month? Try paper-writing week! — I’ve convinced myself that it will actually be possible to write the two major papers due first week of December within [...]
• 2004: Japanese input methods and Emacspeak — prime-el and skk don’t work with Emacspeak. quail’s the only thing that seems to work, but the completion is dodgy. I [...]
• 2004: Orientation — If there are any matters, ask Kondo. 11th onwards, Kojima will come back to YKC. We’re borrowing computers again! This will be [...]
• 2004: Don’t lose remember buffers when closing Emacs — (defun ajk/my-cleanup-then-save-buffers-kill-emacs (&optional arg) "Clean up before saving buffers and killing Emacs." (interactive "P") ;; stop here [...]
• 2003: The potato misadventures — Eric accompanied me shopping today. He was thinking about living on his own, so he was quite curious about my CookOrDie [...]