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On This Day...

• 2012: Networking with notes – and sketchnotes, in particular — Incredibly powerful technique. I don’t know why more people don’t use it. So I’m going to give this “secret” away, [...]
• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 14): Writing for yourself and writing for others — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Sometimes you have to work at being happy — Here’s one of the secrets to happiness: Sometimes you have to work at being happy. This is normal. Preparing [...]
• 2009: Living in the sweet spot — The sweet spot is the intersection of what you’re good at, what you love doing, and what the world needs. [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending November 30, 2008 — Work: Submitted my business results for the year (Personal Business Commitments) Participated on a Gen Y and Government 2.0 panel [...]
• 2007: My convocation; or how my mom’s a much better blogger than I am — Read her blog for the story of what happened during my convocation. =) On Technorati: family, mama Random Emacs symbol: gnus-mark-article-hook – [...]
• 2007: When you’re new to the job and everyone knows more than you do — Do you remember what it was like to be new to the job? I do. I remember it like it was [...]
• 2007: Wicked Cool Emacs: get in on the action! — Ever since I started on this “Wicked Cool Emacs” project with No Starch Press, I’ve run into all sorts of [...]
• 2005: Discovering my inner librarian — Just as my friends and I have corrupted Marcelle and brought out his inner geek, Clair exposed my inner librarian. And to think [...]
• 2004: Emacs for my Mom — Do you think Emacs is something we can learn? I think Emacs is something my parents can learn, but something they currently [...]
• 2004: XF86Config-4: Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook P1110 — Important notes: - Use the ati driver. - Modeline “1024×600″ 51 1024 1040 1216 1328 600 600 606 626 See LinuxLaptop#3 for the [...]
• 2004: Another recruit for the wonderful world of Planner hacking! — Chris Parsons wrote: Well, I was using the excellent new planner-create-note-from-task, and thought, “wouldn’t it be nice to have the note optionally [...]
• 2004: Reflections: Random thoughts on presentations — Not in any order. - Focus on what people want. Whether you’re selling an idea or teaching first-year students the joys of [...]
• 2004: The cost of plagiarism and laziness — I am deeply saddened to read the message posted on http://www.newartisans.com/johnw/ , which I reproduce below: Recently, one of my essays—originally an [...]
• 2003: Testing it again — 1 2 3 4 5 6 /usr/src/cvs/emacs-wiki/remember.el
• 2003: Checking xrefs — If copy-on-xref is nil, then only a cross-reference link should show up on the day page. /usr/src/cvs/emacs-wiki/remember.el
• 2003: Day 10: More ground beef salad —