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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending October 19, 2012 — The Small Business Forum was fun to sketchnote. Did lots of good stuff at my consulting gig. Biked through the [...]
• 2011: Figuring out how to plan for a month — I’ve been doing weekly reviews since October 2006 (210 weekly reviews over ~260 weeks, or about 80% coverage), so I’ve [...]
• 2010: Saving development time through virtual appliances — Photo (c) 2008 JakesDad – Creative Commons Attribution Licence 2.0 I’m beginning to be a big [...]
• 2009: Almost a permanent resident! Decisions, decisions… — It’s a good thing I checked the status of my permanent residency application online, as the request for my passport [...]
• 2007: Eshell redirection — Mike Mattie has this awesome Emacs tip for Eshell: redirecting to buffers and Lisp symbols! To overwrite buffer “foo”: ls > #<buffer foo> To [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — This week, I focused on getting on board at IBM. I’m happy to say that the process was very smooth, and [...]
• 2004: Trackback implementation for Emacs — From http://elisp.info/archive/80614224, posted by Mark A. Hershberger: This will be put into nnrss.el or weblogger.el, but, for now, here is an implementation [...]
• 2004: ARGH! Drying clothes! — I refuse to be held hostage by laundry tags. I’ll hang the suits up to dry, but darn if I’ll let [...]
• 2004: First day — Think technical challenge. Think fun. Don’t think about classrooms and a dorm five minutes away from school. Delphi is fun, although I [...]
• 2004: Training so far — Software installation in a foreign language is difficult. The first time around, I selected “repair” instead of “reinstall”. I realized my mistake [...]