2013: Quantified Awesome: Time and building mastery —
There’s an often-repeated number in studies on expertise: it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in order to build a [...]
2012: Weekly review: Week ending February 3, 2012 — Two weeks to go before I leave IBM. My current project is in user acceptance testing, and I’ve addressed practically [...]
2009: A thousand ways that didn’t work — I spent the entire afternoon trying to figure out how I can do a live teleconference with screensharing so that [...]
2007: I can afford to raise my rent — Is the experience of being able to live on my own worth the loss of a
little compound interest? I haven’t [...]
2007: They’re just material things… — … and I shouldn’t get attached to them, but it’s frustrating coming
back to find stuff missing: two of my Corelle [...]
2006: Why I like the Emacs editor — Most editors treat everyone the same. Emacs, on the other hand, becomes
uniquely yours – tamed, like the fox in The [...]
2006: Cold and raining outside, warm and fuzzy inside — The weather today was absolutely horrible. As my sister would say, “It
rained little animals.” Well, alternately rained and snowed. I [...]
2004: Eric’s testimonial —
I know a hacker named Eric,
Who is certainly not geek generic
He is better than me
At music and C
And in graphics [...]
2004: coke made a background — coke made a desktop background using one
of my pictures. Here’s the thumbnail:
../pics/sacha_of_borg_thumb.png
If you want to grab the picture, get it [...]
2004: Reading a book in Emacspeak — From Nath on the emacspeak mailing list:
You can try C-e n which will read you the text until you stop [...]
2004: New comic strip — According to fsbot, the bot on #emacs:
reeality is a new dilbertesq/UFesq comic strip: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/reeality
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
Dave Marquardt Hey, remember how I couldn't see your drawing? It was a Feedly thing, and I can see the drawing just fine on your web site. – May 18, 11:49 AM
Gath Gealaich What exactly means "W-"? It sounds like a manufacturer designation. Or do other parts of this planet have naming and typographic conventions I'm not familiar... – May 18, 11:49 AM