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On This Day...

• 2011: Tracking and organizing my clothes: substituting mathematics for fashion sense — Inspired by my sister’s photo-assisted organization of her shoes, I decided to tackle my wardrobe. Taking an inventory would make [...]
• 2010: Quick catch-up — Too many things going on. Haven’t been able to sit down and properly write for almost a week, and probably [...]
• 2008: Sometimes you just have to do it — Last Wednesday, I was definitely not a happily sewing kitty. I was halfway through the blazer I was sewing, and [...]
• 2007: Categorizing Contacts — Categorizing your contacts may make it easier for you to purposefully deepen or expand your network. Here are some categories recommended [...]
• 2006: Good things: KMD2004 — Quote for the day: An unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates I come from a technical background, and the almost-sociological analyses [...]
• 2006: October is crazy! — If I disappear from the surface of the earth or blog sporadically, it is because not only do I have a [...]
• 2006: The power of applause — Listening to the Entrepreneurship 101, I find myself struck by the silence of the rooms sometimes. Perhaps it’s Toastmasters training, but I [...]
• 2006: Lazyweb request: dependency grapher? — Would anyone happen to know of something that makes it easy to graph dependencies, preferably interactively? I’d like it to be [...]
• 2006: Misplaced index cards — The strangely solid kerplunk I noticed when I emptied my trash into the garbage chute may have been the sound of [...]
• 2005: Cryptic crosswords — Trevor introduced me to the wonderful world of cryptic crosswords. Any crossword where clues like “Main attraction: second pitch” can result in [...]
• 2004: Lisp code for correct coding — (setq erc-encoding-coding-alist (quote (("#lisp" . utf-8) ("#nihongo" . iso-2022-jp) ("#truelambda" . [...]
• 2004: Kansai Free Software Conference — http://k-of.jp/ Upcoming event, and it’s in Osaka! 関西オープンソース 2004 2004å¹´10月22日（金）〜10月23日（土） 大阪産業創造館 大阪市中央区本町 1-4-5 Friday to Saturday. There’s a Debian BOF on 10月23日 15:00 – 16:00. If I [...]
• 2004: Japanese post — I sent a card and a Bayanihan keychain to Ohashi Akira, the Debian developer who sponsors my packages. =) It was [...]
• 2003: learn.ph —