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On This Day...

• 2012: Quantified Awesome: Squishing my excuses — I’ve been fiddling with Quantified Awesome, this personal dashboard that I’m building so that I can keep track of what’s [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Weeks ending December 27, 2009 and January 3, 2010 — Busy, busy, busy! From the previous week’s plans for the week ending December 27, 2009: Work Set up Idea Lab needed for January [...]
• 2010: How I explore my interests — Looking for your passions? You might be starting with the wrong question. Except in rare circumstances, passion doesn’t hit people [...]
• 2009: Hooray! Tax-free savings account! — To encourage people to save, the Canadian government created a tax-free savings account. You put after-tax dollars into it, and [...]
• 2009: Ideas for making my work more effective and efficient, creating value, and rocking my work — Change to Ubuntu Set up virtual machine for my Windows partition Use Emacs to handle my mail? Hard to do calendar acceptance Set [...]
• 2008: Working two jobs — “Next time I do this, I’m going to have to find a day job that isn’t this similar to my [...]
• 2008: Tagging in Org – plus bonus code for timeclocks and tags! — The section on projects introduced tags as a way to differentiate active and inactive projects. In this section, you’ll learn more [...]
• 2007: Deja vu — The Internet is still crawling. Takes me back to the days of BBSing, when you could type faster than the modem [...]
• 2007: Hate is as useful as love — … sometimes even more so. I’m beginning to hate the stress I feel about this thesis. The best way to deal with [...]
• 2007: Working through the funk — I felt tired this morning. Things weren’t working smoothly. It turns out that the Philippines is probably not part of the [...]
• 2007: Whatever gets the job done — I should’ve tried dialing into the IBM conference center last night to confirm that our landline could connect to it. Had [...]
• 2007: It’s nice to be missed! — Bryce Johnson e-mailed me to ask me why I hadn’t signed up for Enterprise Camp. I sent my regrets and explained that [...]
• 2006: It’s official – I’ll be working on social search! — I’m thrilled to report that a large company has given the go signal for research on social computing. Social search, in [...]
• 2005: Emacs channel chat logs — Also, if someone can help me set up logging (split into text files by day, please) for irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs, I volunteer to summarize [...]
• 2005: Looking for Emacs blogs — I’d love to read more about the wonderful editor/way-of-life that is Emacs. Know of any Emacs-related blogs? (Occasional off-topics are fine.) Please [...]
• 2005: debian-installer Tagalog translation complete! — ([[OpenSourceInThePhilippines#note4][OpenSourceInThePhilippines:4]]”[[oss]]”[[l10n]]”[[Localization]]) Eric Pareja and other volunteer translators have finished the translating level 1 of the debian-installer into Tagalog. Please check out the [...]
• 2005: A question of scale — ([[OpenSource#note2][OpenSource:2]]”[[oss]]”[[OpenSourceIssues#note2][OpenSourceIssues:2]]”[[ToBlog#note2][ToBlog:2]]) Open source allows people to work on an individual basis. Developers can jumpstart their projects by using existing code, creating [...]
• 2005: xtla goodness ([[EmacsTips#note19][EmacsTips:19]]”[[emacs]]) — I used xtla to browse my TLA archives today. xtla’s bookmarks and missing patch summary made merging missing patches much easier. [...]
• 2005: Planner cited as a reason to defect to Emacs — (PlannerModeMaintenance”[[GoodKarma#note2][GoodKarma:2]]) You point is well taken. I find myself living in an application more and more. At work, it’s my [...]
• 2005: Ethical issues in open source — ([[OpenSource#note1][OpenSource:1]]”[[oss]]”[[OpenSourceIssues#note1][OpenSourceIssues:1]]”[[ToBlog#note1][ToBlog:1]]) One of my students e-mailed me asking for help finding interesting ethical issues in open source. Here’s the partial list [...]
• 2004: Cat collar — That hated bell! Although it provided music for her every move, it stopped her from being sneaky – and being sneaky [...]
• 2004: Counting in Dutch — - een kus, twee kussen - ik kus, jij kust, hij kust, wij kussen, jullie kussen, zij kussen
• 2004: Factoid surprise — Looks like my bot implants are working. Remember that hack I added to ../emacs/bbdb-config.el to let me hippie-expand factoids? Earlier in #linuxhelp, [...]