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On This Day...

• 2013: How I read books and do visual book reviews — Bakari wanted to know how I did my visual book reviews. Here’s how! Over the past year, we’ve checked out an [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending April 8, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [-] Finish first phase prototype for client C – lots of good progress! [X] [...]
• 2010: Show your work — In grade school, I got into a lot of trouble with my math teacher because I didn’t show my work. [...]
• 2009: Finding finishers, building a team — “So, what did you tell Steve to convince him to take time out for lunch with me?” I asked Ian [...]
• 2009: Enterprise 2.0: The business value of social networks — Both our internal Social Networks Analysis community and Colleen Haikes (IBM External Relations) tipped me off to some absolutely fascinating [...]
• 2009: My Drupal Makefile — As promised, a scrubbed version of my Drupal Makefile. I customize it for different testing or production environments with .mk files [...]
• 2007: Mens sana in corpore sano — I feel much better now after a terrific book raid and a great workout at krav maga. =)
• 2007: Entertainingly educational books — I raided a few second-hand stores for books and clothes. I found such gems! I’m half-tempted to just keep them at [...]
• 2006: Hooray for mindmaps and checklists — I scribbled down a whole bunch of things earlier. That makes it ridiculously easy to just chew through the bunch, writing [...]
• 2006: Should’ve brought a penguin — A penguin with a tape recorder or speech recog. Right. That way, I could rant about all this brokenness, and that [...]
• 2006: No one gets tags — <sigh> I got too attached to the title “Folksonomies of Folks” for my Metadata Schemas and Applications paper (due tomorrow – [...]
• 2005: Lightning completion and highlight completion — A stray mention in #emacs led me to http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/Emacs/ , which has Emacs Lisp code for lightning completion and highlight completion. Both [...]
• 2004: Emacspeak on windows — Gerhard Stenzel wrote: Some years ago, I wrote a description about how to make emacspeak work with emacs under windows. I have [...]