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On This Day...

• 2013: Dealing with presentation block — Every so often, I have to come up with a presentation topic. This is what happens when you know people [...]
• 2012: Estimating the impact of the Community Toolkit, or how the company got an incredibly good deal when they hired me ;) — Numbers are good to have when you’re thinking about the differences you’ve made. Let’s see if I can estimate the [...]
• 2011: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Webinar: Energy, Interaction, and ROI — I’ve been invited to re-do my Remote Presentations That Rock presentation this February. I can’t resist improving presentations every time [...]
• 2010: Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector — Around 100 people attended the Shy Connector webinar I gave for Women in Technology, International. It was lots of fun! What [...]
• 2009: Luke looking up —
• 2007: Tough decisions — I’m not sad. But I’m not thrilled, either. With all the challenges ahead of me, I need to have net positive [...]
• 2007: Time to be selfish — I can make a difference in people’s lives, yes, but if I direct that energy towards improving my own, I can [...]
• 2006: Research-happy! — I went up to IBM today. I can’t tell you the details as I’ve signed my life away, BUT suffice to [...]
• 2006: Scrabble game results — Name (running total) Name (running total) Name (running total) Name (running total) Rob Steve James Calum 10 9 16 7 13 (23) 24 (33) 20 (36) 13 (20) 34 (57) 13 (46) 28 (64) 29 (15) 30 (87) 24 (70) 18 (82) 15 [...]
• 2006: Darn you, SELinux! — I’m very annoyed with SELinux today. I’ve just figured out that the reason I was getting very mysterious access denied [...]
• 2006: Valentine’s — Yesterday was fantastic! I woke up extra early and chatted with Dominique, who Googled up a few wonderful poems and read [...]
• 2004: Chess site — Just created accounts on http://itsyourturn.com (sachachua) and http://www.stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_ppp.cgi?16686 . Feel free to challenge me to a chess game there – good practice! [...]
• 2004: Cleaned up planner-rss.el — planner-rss.el should now be ready for (almost) general use. You can get it from http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/emacs/emacs-wiki/planner-rss.el . To use it, add (require 'planner-rss) (add-to-list 'remember-append-to-planner-hook [...]
• 2004: ff-find-other-file — ff-find-other-file lets you switch from, say, a .cpp file to an associated .h file. E-Mail from Felix