2010: Sometimes you have to work at being happy — Here’s one of the secrets to happiness: Sometimes you have to work at being happy. This is normal. Preparing [...]
2009: Living in the sweet spot — The sweet spot is the intersection of what you’re good at, what you love doing, and what the world needs. [...]
2008: Weekly review: Week ending November 30, 2008 — Work:
Submitted my business results for the year (Personal Business Commitments)
Participated on a Gen Y and Government 2.0 panel [...]
2007: Wicked Cool Emacs: get in on the action! — Ever since I started on this “Wicked Cool Emacs” project with No Starch Press, I’ve run into all sorts of [...]
2005: Discovering my inner librarian — Just as my friends and I have corrupted
Marcelle and brought out his
inner geek, Clair exposed my inner
librarian. And to think [...]
2004: Emacs for my Mom —
Do you think Emacs is something we can learn?
I think Emacs is something my parents can learn, but something they
currently [...]
2004: Reflections: Random thoughts on presentations — Not in any order.
- Focus on what people want. Whether you’re selling an idea or
teaching first-year students the joys of [...]
2004: The cost of plagiarism and laziness — I am deeply saddened to read the message posted on
http://www.newartisans.com/johnw/ , which I reproduce below:
Recently, one of my essays—originally an [...]
2003: Testing it again — 1 2 3 4 5 6
/usr/src/cvs/emacs-wiki/remember.el
2003: Checking xrefs — If copy-on-xref is nil, then only a cross-reference link should show up on the day page.
/usr/src/cvs/emacs-wiki/remember.el
xpress razor Nice tutorial. Once in a while someone posts about Emacs, and I get tempted again to play with the devil. When two three days passes,... – May 20, 12:01 PM
Pat Thomasson Focus on what you can do and it tempers the helpless, overwhelmed feeling. That's a great piece of advice. – May 20, 6:05 AM
naivnomore Hand drawn one pager is done very nicely. Good work. Succinct intro for beginners. However, It will be nice to have another one pager organized... – May 19, 10:50 AM
Pat Thomasson This is great. As one of your less code savvy followers, this has prompted me to go a step or two back off the page... – May 19, 9:58 AM