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On This Day...

• 2013: Monthly review: February 2013 — Last month, I wrote: In February, I’d like to do a lot more coding and a lot more drawing. We’ll see [...]
• 2012: Visual book notes: The Start-up of You (Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha) — (Click image for a larger version) The Start-up of You is a book about networking and career planning using tips pulled [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending March 4, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Deliver “Remote Presentations That Rock” [X] Work on ECM project [...]
• 2011: Presentation experiment: Shy Connector, Six Steps to Sharing, and other presentations in March! — Slideshare’s new Zipcast feature nudged me to experiment with giving more online presentations externally. I regularly give presentations inside IBM [...]
• 2010: A little less wise, a little more awesome — I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out this morning to avoid complications later on. The anaesthetist (a [...]
• 2010: What I learned from The Art of Marketing — I learned a lot from the Art of Marketing conference even before it started. To take advantage of someone else’s [...]
• 2009: Presentation Zen: Visualization of the credit crisis — Kudos to Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen for finding this animation by Jonathan Jarvis that explains the credit crisis: The Crisis [...]
• 2009: DrupalCon Day 1: Notes and Links from March 4, 2009 — Building APIs that Rock Jeff Eaton More than 400 people packed into the Acquia Room to hear Jeff Eaton talk about APIs, [...]
• 2009: IRC backchannel log for Totally Rocking Your Development Environment, DrupalCon 2009 — IRC chat, thanks to Stephane Corlosquet This was for my Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment talk at DrupalCon 2009. =) bryankennedy my [...]
• 2007: Pot. Kettle. Onyx. — Obsidian. ;) … Random Emacs symbol: scribe-mode – Command: Major mode for editing files of Scribe (a text formatter) source.
• 2007: Sore throat — Also, I’m coming down with a bit of a sore throat, which may or may not mean being antisocial today. But [...]
• 2007: Developing a taste for opera — This weekend was a whirlwind romance with opera. Two operas in two days, and now I’ve fallen in love with it. [...]
• 2007: Downtown today — It turns out that my doctor’s appointment is on Thursday and my facial (whee!) is on the 19th, so I don’t [...]
• 2006: Renaissance dance on Friday — 5:15pm, Old Vic Get into costume, quick run-through of dances 6:30pm, Old Vic Performance From Emily Winerock: As they are expecting about 85 people for [...]
• 2004: RSS-Blog-Furl High School – a vision of the blogging future? — http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2004/03/03#a1475 Rest of the site is pretty cool too.
• 2004: My first LISP snippet! — This parses my blog RDF and returns a sexp. (require :xmls) (with-open-file (stream "../../notebook/wiki/blog.rdf" :direction :input) (xmls::parse stream)) Important things learned: - with-open-file - how [...]
• 2004: Slime – an Emacs interface for Common LISP — http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/ A CVS checkout worked out of the box. _And_ it’s colored, too. Nifty.
• 2004: Using Common Lisp to build web applications — - http://lwn.net/Articles/57590/ - http://homepage.mac.com/nickypeeters/lispification.pdf
• 2004: Microsoft wearable? — - http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040304/microsoft_visual_diary_1.html - http://es.biz.yahoo.com/040303/24/39xv5.html E-Mail from Tony Havelka
• 2004: Programming challenges — Well, it _used_ to be on the New Acquisitions shelf. Now it’s in my cubicle. ;)
• 2004: Programming Challenges — the book was really interesting. The book is currently in the “new acquisitions” section of the library. I learned [...]
• 2004: Personal metadata exchanger — http://pmx.sourceforge.net/ PMX is hybridly distributed chat & messaging server program. It will allow sending messages, receiving them only from trusted whitelisted sources and [...]
• 2004: Pre-final exemptions — B+ - Abrencillo, Gerald Vonn J. - Alvarez, Carlo G. - Cruz, Neil Martin P. - Domingo, Adrian Francis C. - Flores, Melvin S. - Gonzalez, [...]
• 2004: Site that mentions PlannerMode — http://www.vrtprj.com/weblog/pm/0000001654.html
• 2004: What is Chalow? — Working from the Google cache of http://senzai07.poly.kit.jp/~iwata/ChalowForEmacsWiki.html . This looks interesting.
• 2003: martha@the-stock-market.com – channel 21, AN —