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On This Day...

• 2013: Dealing with distractions — I have a slightly obsessive personality. Once in a while, something latches onto my consciousness and distracts me. This can [...]
• 2010: Experiments in awesome — The long weekend gave us plenty of opportunities to pursue projects. W- set up his new negative scanner and [...]
• 2008: Weekly report – February 17, 2008 — It’s been a good week for experiments. I gave a presentation on Web 2.0 and the enterprise to a large [...]
• 2008: Geni – Your family tree online — Okay, I did find another social network I wanted to join online.  Geni is a family-oriented application, and you can [...]
• 2007: Permission to be sad, sir! — I went to the Gorey last Friday to visit Quinn and Jed (Leigh’s out of town) and share what’s going on [...]
• 2007: Clarity — Simon and I are no longer in a romantic relationship. And as much as I have the urge to go back [...]
• 2007: Movie seating for geeks — http://xkcd.com/c173.html I’ve totally done this. ‘course, I was a little too obvious about it, but hey… <laugh> E-Mail from Leigh Honeywell Random Emacs [...]
• 2006: New tools for discovering people — When the people in your physical network are as new to a technology as you are, how do you find out [...]
• 2006: Social researchers — One of the most wonderful things about social bookmarking research is, well, how very social it is. We congregate around our [...]
• 2006: Lazy web — Ideas are a dime a dozen, and that’s just the way I like it! It means that a few months after [...]
• 2005: Very useful PIM research blog — http://www.infomuse.net/blog/index.php?cat=12 On Technorati: pim, blogs
• 2004: nethack-el — I have rediscovered the joys of nethack thanks to nethack-el, a package that allows me to play that insanely addictive RPG [...]
• 2004: Thoughts on the CS161 test — I’m halfway done checking the second long test in operating systems, and I have a few thoughts about it. As a [...]
• 2004: Emacs Learning Instruction Program — The beta of ELIP, the Emacs Learning Instruction Program, is now stable enough for wide release. ELIP is “flashcards on steroids” and [...]
• 2004: Emacs Learning Instruction Program — Deleted duplicate
• 2004: back-to-indentation: jump to first non-blank character — To move over the indentation on a line, do `M-m’ (`back-to-indentation’). This command, given anywhere on a line, positions point at the [...]