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On This Day...

• 2013: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners — I thought I’d draw some of the things that people often ask me about or that would help people learn [...]
• 2013: Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog — A friend of mine is a big fan of Firepole Marketing and other blog-related marketing sites, so a lot of [...]
• 2012: Drawing studies — Playing around with different ways to draw simple figures. =) Investigating the effects of drawing lines from different directions. I’m [...]
• 2011: Walking outside my comfort zone – bike? push/kick scooter? — This walking-around-a-strange-city has its pluses and minuses. Plus: I got to see Denver’s downtown pedestrian zones and how they’ve set [...]
• 2011: Finding the bright side of business travel — I don’t like travelling. I’d rather be home: husband, cats, garden, library, home-cooked food, regular routines, everything I need where [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending May 16, 2010 — Plans from last week: Work [X] Present social media / collaboration ideas at an executive briefing [X] Set up two simultaneous [...]
• 2009: Cintiq 12WX on Ubuntu Jaunty with ATIconfig — After far too much pain and suffering, I got my tablet to work again. Culprit: the switch to an ATI [...]
• 2008: New workflow for sketching; ooh, batch import! — So here’s my new workflow: figure out the gist of what I want to say write down some titles sketch a couple of [...]
• 2008: How to sketch with a Nintendo DS — As promised, here’s a quick guide to sketching on the Nintendo DS: | View | Upload your own Useful sites: DSTT – [...]
• 2007: Curing Mail Madness with GNU Emacs — My article on managing mail with GNU Emacs is up at http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/051607-linuxworld-mail-madness.html . Yay! Check it out! I think I’ll spend [...]
• 2006: The world is changing — Another thought from that conversation: Andrew pointed out that we’re now less afraid of tangible threats such as lions charging us [...]
• 2006: Genetic engineering and individuality — Andrew Hessel, Tara Hunt, Chris Messina and I were chatting about biotechnology and open source. Andrew mentioned DNA vaccines, which [...]
• 2006: Agile methods for building communities — Chris Messina totally rocks. He’s into building communities through agile methods such as: barcamp, ad-hoc gathering where people can share whatever [...]
• 2006: Tagging places, and the power of stories — When I looked at tag-based applications that didn’t work, I thought geotagging sites like Platial missed the tagging boat. What [...]
• 2006: Can I Crash — From a conversation with Chris Messina, Tara Hunt and Andrew Hessel came this mention of Can I Crash (http://www.canicrash.org). Check [...]
• 2006: Aftermesh — mesh was the best conference that I’ve ever been to. I got so much value out of it! I would have [...]
• 2003: Software archaeology — Software resembles archaelogoy a little bit more… From: Richard Stallman Subject: Re: Various simple.el patches To: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) Date: Fri May 16 [...]