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On This Day...

• 2011: Emacs, artbollocks-mode.el, and writing more clearly — Analyzing the text of my blog showed me that I use some phrases way too much. Fortunately, Emacs can shame [...]
• 2010: More MobileOrg hacking on the Android — I’ve gotten IBM’s permission to contribute my changes back to the MobileOrg project, yay! (Disclaimer: I’m doing this as myself [...]
• 2009: Conversations with a mentor: chat about plans, mentoring, and knowledge sharing — Conversations with David Singer are usually more laid-back, but I was buzzing with a few things I wanted to pick [...]
• 2008: The Return on Mistakes — I still remember the round-eyed awe on a first-year computer science student’s face when I walked past the monitor set [...]
• 2008: Weekly report: Week ending Dec 14 — Last week’s activities: Work: Site moved into user acceptance testing, hooray! Lots of stuff to work on. Reviewed pictures. Got tablet to [...]
• 2007: Gnus multi-pane tricks, or I heart Planet Emacsen — The tips Joseph Miklojcik shared for reading e-mail in Gnus included this _really_ nifty thing that I hadn’t come across [...]
• 2007: Status report: Dec 16 —
• 2007: Oh, the weather outside is frightful —
• 2007: Outline for task management chapter — Why manage your tasks in Emacs - [ ] What you might be using now - [ ] Your brain [...]
• 2007: Weekly report — The week was full of starts and stops and starts again. I practiced Christmas carols with Mike Tsang last Tuesday because [...]
• 2007: Salmon steak with dill —
• 2007: Sketchblogging with the Nintendo DS Lite —
• 2007: He loves to cook —
• 2007: So close! —
• 2005: Friday night — Ack! I guess I really am an extrovert now. I find it to be _dreadfully_ quiet for a Friday night. The [...]
• 2005: Characters blogged versus bookmarks — My blogging activity is similar to my bookmarking activity, so that means that bookmarking stuff with del.icio.us doesn’t mean I don’t blog [...]
• 2005: The Year in Bookmarks — Top 10 tags for 2005 productivity(104) web2.0(88) digitalpinay(88) social(84) useful(83) business(80) blogs(70) research(69) lifehacks(68) blogging(60) Check out my year in bookmarks for [...]
• 2004: YDC Festival: Puppet shows — I caught the tail end of a puppet show carried out with store-bought dolls: Barbie, Billikin… I was surprised at how [...]
• 2004: Refactoring Planner annotation code — Many planner files just contain code for creating hyperlinks from the current buffer. This does not have anything to do with [...]
• 2004: Factors for idea growth — From ParaMode in ZhurnalWiki : But the history of Para mode does highlight three deep sources of power that, in one form [...]
• 2004: Updating the timelog — I often update my task descriptions. We haven’t found a neat way to do this in-buffer, so I use planner-edit-task-description. However, [...]
• 2004: Kanji for the day — 初めて会う人と話す時、緊張しないで頑張ってきださい。 はじめてあうひととはなすとき、きんじょうしないでがんばってください。 hajimete au hito to hanasu toki, kinjou shinaide ganbatte kudasai. 頑張ってきださい。| Try your best. 緊張しないで頑張ってきださい。| Try your best not to be nervous. 話す時、緊張しないで頑張ってきださい。| [...]
• 2003: Perl for Windows administration — - Keith_M: One that I use quite often is Win32::AdminMisc by Dave Roth. www.roth.net - Keith_M: Win32API::Net - Keith_M: Win32::Lanman
• 2003: Oooh, cool way to split — use Text::ParseWords; @new = quotewords(",", 0, $text);
• 2003: Useful Perl resources — - http://learn.perl.org/ - http://www.perlfect.com/articles/ - http://apprentice.perl.org/ - http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/PerlJournal/ - http://learn.perl.org/library Teaching.Perl
• 2003: More stuff from visiting professor — How do you pronounce your name, Dr. Nievergelt? (Neevergelt) - Let me see if I understand your teaching approach. You develop passive [...]
• 2003: Perl training — Plan: - Day 1 morning: What is Perl? Lay of the land - Day 1 afternoon: Basic syntax, Perl for extracting data - [...]
• 2003: Hey, more thoughts on kara — Finite state machines are perfect for pen and paper, because students can check it manually – and they can enlist their [...]
• 2003: Moving computing into the basics — Mathematics users – elementary mathematics, technicians have more mathematics. So the mathematics teachers could say all we have to teach our students [...]
• 2003: Meeting with Dr. Juerg Nievergelt — - Advocates strong mathematical approach in first year - Upcoming split - Computational science – common math: numeric and symbolic computation (6 [...]
• 2003: More about group reviews — Perhaps setting up this kind of tutoring in-class is a good way to encourage student interaction and close the gap between [...]
• 2003: Recipe from [[bbdb://Aadisht][Aadisht Khanna]] — 1. Set Capsicum, Minced Meat, Sweet Corn, Cheese 2. Slice off capsicum tops. 3. Scoop out capsicum innards. 4. Stuff Capsicum with (Cheese&&(Minced [...]
• 2003: Backlog: Fish – 2003.12.15 — - Find small sections of fish. I haven’t gotten around to eating fish bellies yet, although many people swear by [...]