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On This Day...

• 2012: Quantified Self: Learning from a year of time data and planning what to tweak in 2013 — Last year, I decided to move from tracking my time using off-the-shelf applications (Time Recording, then Tap Log Record) to [...]
• 2011: Decision review: Decision review — In September, I wrote about how I could get better at making decisions. I switched to organizing my decisions in [...]
• 2010: Reflecting on life as an experiment, gender gaps, and privilege — Is there a gender gap for self-experimentation? Maybe. I’m not sure. But I can tell you about the things I [...]
• 2009: After the tea party — Almost six hours of conversation over tea and assorted goodies. (I made home-baked vegan apple pie and non-vegan biscuits!) Somehow, the [...]
• 2009: Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings — The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More DoneMike Song, Vicki Halsey, and Tim Buress, [...]
• 2008: Emacs: Working with multiple source trees — As a developer, I often find myself working with multiple trees of source code. Sometimes, I’m comparing the trunk and [...]
• 2007: How to talk to execs and clients about social media — “Know the differences between Technology, Features, Benefits, and Value,” Jeremiah Owyang advises in his blog post about effectively talking to executives [...]
• 2006: Ah, found wallet — Yay! Random Emacs symbol: delete-frame – Command: Delete FRAME, permanently eliminating it from use.
• 2006: Not panicking — My wallet exists somewhere in my suite. I know because I had to take my room key out of it in [...]
• 2003: kernel-janitor-discuss — The kernel-janitor-discuss archives on http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2314 seem to be spam-filled. I’m tempted to work on the balancing-functions task, as that doesn’t require too much [...]
• 2003: Open source for school projects — I think the idea of using open source for class projects as suggested by http://www.kegel.com/academy/opensource.html is a good thing. The page also [...]
• 2003: Prompting — Although unconditional prompting requires an extra keystroke, it makes blogging more consistent (no need to think about if you’re on a [...]
• 2003: Mirrored blogs — I’m thinking of making it easier for me to blog to my http://www.advogato.org/diary/ . I should look at the blogging Emacs modules [...]
• 2003: Blogging contests? — As requested by Marcelle, have checked out blog competition as he is in running for Best Philippine Blog – but by very [...]