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On This Day...

• 2012: Imagining sketchnotes as a business — People tell me that conference/presentation sketchnotes are an amazing service. I’ve been getting paid to cover conferences and events, so [...]
• 2011: Monthly review: November 2011 — Halfway through December, I know, but things got busy with two launches and home improvements. =) From my plans [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending December 18, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Build tough parts of Project M [X] Continue to refine Project S [X] Meet Anna Dreyzin [...]
• 2009: One post a day, or the value of a bottleneck — Why a goal of only a single post a day, when I want to write many more? I started with the [...]
• 2008: Emacs, Org, and BBDB: Hyperlinking names to blogs — Back when I used Planner for Emacs, I coded some shortcuts to make it easier to write about the people [...]
• 2008: Hosting a teleconference call — Last Wednesday, I hosted a teleconference call for the first time. It was the December community call for IBM’s Web [...]
• 2007: The commute up —
• 2006: All my bags are packed — All my bags are packed and I must confess, I’ve still got food and my room’s a mess, I don’t know how [...]
• 2004: Emacs Lisp mentioned in job ad — job --> "SDE, Tech Assessment Team Amazon.com - US-WA-Seattle equivalent, [...]
• 2004: Knitting — I love knitting I love knitting Scarf, bunched up Scarf, bunched up Wearing the scarf Wearing the scarf Wearing the scarf I’m giving this as a gift [...]
• 2003: Dominique won! =) — Very delicate and dangerous endgame. He outwitted me with a clever maneuver. Way cool! Chess is catharsis. After tension, relaxation. =)
• 2003: Thomas Gehrlein wants planner annotation from notes — So I guess people use that feature after all… =) PlannerMode
• 2003: The class is practically running itself — It’s amazing. The class is practically running itself. The time I put into making those exercises was definitely worth it. They’re [...]
• 2003: Proxy problems — Fujitsu’s not letting my MSI download. I should have grabbed it at home. Tomorrow, then – just to show them that [...]
• 2003: Thoughts on training — Yesterday was my first day of corporate training. It was surprisingly draining. On my feet almost the entire day, facing the [...]