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On This Day...

• 2013: Less Wrong meetup notes: Goal factoring, fight-or-flight, and comfort zones — This week, I attended my first Less Wrong meetup in Toronto – a meandering conversation about applied rationality over coffee [...]
• 2011: Continuing experiments with Slideshare’s Zipcast web conferences — I did a quick presentation of Six Steps to Sharing on Slideshare’s Zipcast this Saturday. I haven’t done [...]
• 2011: Coconut buns and the economics of home awesomeness — Sometimes making things at home is cheaper than buying them. Sometimes it’s more expensive. For example, the batch lunches [...]
• 2010: Steeped in collaboration — Real World Strategy wrote of me: Here is somebody in their mid twenties who has already spent a decade immersed in [...]
• 2007: My very own place! — I have been unforgivably late with thank-yous to the totally totally totally totally awesome crew who helped me get my new [...]
• 2007: Woke up late — I still have such a blogging backlog. Waah! Work first. Woke up to find that I’d missed a telecon for LG. Good [...]
• 2006: Hot chocolate day — Dominique and Clair both asked if I was okay. I was, you know. The Skype party last Saturday was a fantastic [...]
• 2005: The conference was so much fun! — My laptop wouldn’t talk to the projector, so I did my Knoppix talk without slides. I forgot to give people my [...]
• 2003: planner.php — Nearly done! =D
• 2003: customizing mozilla — I’d like emacsclient as my mail composer in Mozilla. I wonder how to associate it… From http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/ : user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true); user_pref("applications.mailto", "emacsclient");
• 2003: software suspend — To get software suspend under Linux on the Sony Vaio U1, I followed the instructions at http://www.spic.net/u1/linux/dl/ . I also copied the [...]