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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 9): Learning from others — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: "But what can I talk about?" Toastmaster tactics for tackling topics — This is a talk I’m giving to the IBM Toronto Lab Toastmasters today. I should trim a few hundred words [...]
• 2007: Choosing a daily schedule in Emacs — There’s more than one way to plan your day in Emacs, just like there’s more than one way to do everything [...]
• 2007: Tweaking day-specific planner pages — If you set planner-day-page-template to a function. Planner invokes the function when creating a new day page. This means that you [...]
• 2007: Emacs: managing schedule — If you spend a lot of time in Emacs—writing code, reading mail, saving the world—then it makes sense to manage your [...]
• 2006: Don’t sell; help people buy — A book I’m reading right now (151 Quick Ideas to Get New Customers, by Jerry R. Wilson) notes that people hate [...]
• 2006: Heavy stuff nearer floor = good — I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of this earlier. The perfect place for my heavy suitcases is, of course, *on the [...]
• 2006: Keeping track of the age of messages — I can get pretty bad at responding to e-mail. This is an experiment to see whether the negative reinforcement of seeing [...]
• 2006: Livin’ la Vida Emacs — Squee! <bounce, bounce, bounce> Democamp10: Back at Mars Last, and certainly not least was Sacha Chua. If we could harness it I’m [...]
• 2006: Looking for a personal board of advisors — I won’t be going to the Free Software and Open Source Symposium tomorrow because I’m meeting Stephen Perelgut and a possible [...]
• 2005: Argh. Blog comment spam. — I remember why I put off having online blog comments for the longest time. It’s just a lot of work filtering [...]
• 2005: Reading bursts — Now that I’ve given myself permission to buy books I like, my bookshelf is slowly but steadily growing. Here’s a [...]
• 2005: If you throw enough pots, you’ll be a master potter — If you throw enough pots, you’ll be a master potter. I got up this morning at 6:30 to write. The idea [...]
• 2005: Free Penguin — Free penguin sewing instructions! Oooh, cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!
• 2005: Planner tip #1: Overcome inbox insanity the Planner way — (641 words) Overloaded with e-mail? Overcome inbox insanity by using Planner to keep track of what you need to do. If you [...]
• 2004: More realizations — I’m finding it hard to concentrate on my project. I need users. I need to know that what I am doing [...]
• 2004: Met Tomoko and her friend — I had a hard time finding Tomoko at the Shinjuku station because there were so many people. Even with cellphones, it [...]
• 2004: Kitted out — Went out in coat, gloves, scarf, and bonnet. Still felt cold, but didn’t shiver as much. And this is just autumn! [...]
• 2004: Translators EB — Date Saturday, Oct. 30 Time 6:00pm (til about 9, 9:30) Place Oiwake (Taito-ku Nishiasakusa 3-28-11) http://www.oiwake.info/ 3844-6283 Access Iriya on the Hibiya sen or Tawaramachi on the [...]