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On This Day...

• 2012: It’s okay to not know — “Congratulations! What’s your new business about?” “What will you be working on?” “So, what do you do?” I don’t [...]
• 2011: Waking up: looking at my data — Whenever I manage to wake up early a few days in a row, I feel great about it. But I [...]
• 2010: Patternicity, how things come together, and happiness — I’m fascinated by how things come together. When we look back, we weave almost-random elements of our lives into a [...]
• 2009: Scaffolds and structures — I often talk about leverage and scale: creating as much value as I can for as many people as I [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2007: At the social media and public relations event — I attended the Social Media and PR meetup at the Bier Market. It was great meeting people from the public [...]
• 2007: Much progress! — I was stressing out about hooking up the back end of my metasearch engine to the front end that I’d prototyped [...]
• 2007: Edgy — I think I left my phone in my room. At least I hope it did – my desk is a far [...]
• 2005: Karaoke with Dave and Tony — Did most of my packing today. The big suitcase is jammed with souvenirs and the little suitcase will contain electronics. I’m shipping [...]
• 2005: Travel plans — TKC to Kita Senju Kita Senju to Nippori (arrive by 7:00) Nippori (Keisei Line Sky Liner, 7:07) to Narita (arrive by 7:59) On [...]
• 2005: Arrange for luggage pick-up by on the 23rd or 22nd — 1950 yen charge for 2nd piece of luggage Pickup from AOTS: 9 – 12 on the 23rd Pickup in airport: 3rd floor, [...]
• 2004: Code for Nethack screenshots in Emacs — (defvar nethack-screenshot-file "~/.nethack-notes" "Filename to store Nethack data in.") (defun sacha/nethack-take-screenshot (caption) (interactive "MCaption: ") (save-window-excursion [...]
• 2004: CS161 announcements — Yes, there are exemptions: 90 and above. This includes the grades from the projects. The list of exempted people will be [...]
• 2004: Stuff Eric should check out — - Alain Chesnais (a-LAHN she-NAY) - YT Lee, head of SEAGRAPH - Barbara, in charge of organizing conferences (sponsored and in cooperation [...]
• 2004: Instructions for wearable chording keyboards — On wear-hard@haven.org, John McKown said: http://chordite.com where you can download free instructions on how to build a wearable, chording keyboard. E-Mail from John McKown
• 2004: eBay service — I keep getting Dear eBay Member, Dear customer, you have been billed for $15.00 recently. Please update your billing information at eBay Billing [...]
• 2004: meetup.com — Jeremy Hogan said on open-source-now-list@redhat.com: Many of you have probably already heard of Meetup.com due to its prominence in the Democratic primaries. [...]
• 2004: CS21A: ArrayList — Quick review: arrays Arrays are a neat way to store a fixed number of items. You can declare and create arrays and [...]
• 2004: CS161: Notes on file systems — I might not be able to give a lecture on filesystems this Friday (or it might whiz past with my mile-a-minute [...]
• 2003: blogging — I’ve been reading up on blogging, since I want to get a firm grip on the kind of software I’d like. [...]