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On This Day...

• 2012: Analyzing my Lotus Notes sent mail since January 2011 — Today is my penultimate day at IBM! Having successfully turned my projects over to another developer (hooray for the habit [...]
• 2011: Imagine success for social media — I was talking to an independent consultant who wanted to get better at using social media to expand his network. [...]
• 2011: From zero to hero: a newbie’s guide to learning and building a reputation along the way — A friend of mine is a new IBM consultant who wants to learn more about and develop a reputation in [...]
• 2010: Fixing SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 for Karmic wireless on Asus Eee 1008HA — I was having problems with wireless on the netbook-oriented version of Ubuntu Karmic Koala. ifconfig wlan0 up returned SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown [...]
• 2010: Personal blog? Don’t worry about your strategy — Personal branding seems like such a big deal these days. If you’re a beginning blogger, you’re supposed to pick a [...]
• 2008: Trying out virtual assistants — I’ve set aside some of my play money to try out virtual assistants. I want to learn more about delegating [...]
• 2008: BBDB: Filtering by Mail Alias — You can use “a” (bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias) in BBDB buffers to add a mail alias to the current entry, or “* a” [...]
• 2007: The bin-packing problem — Every computer scientist learns, at some point, algorithms for solving the bin-packing problem. That is: given a container of limited size and [...]
• 2007: Matter resolved — After an intense week of conversation, the matter that had been on my mind has been resolved. I think that things [...]
• 2006: No Eclipse for me… — The Lifebook doesn’t want to run Eclipse. <sigh> Oh well. Back to Emacs and life without autocompletion and quick fixes…
• 2006: Blogbridge – nifty! — Hooray for Blogbridge! I was beginning to wonder why I hadn’t heard of something that flexibly let you slice and [...]
• 2006: Information architecture summit: heavy on tagging! — I can’t wait for the proceedings to the Information Architecture Summit to be available online! =) Whee! More scholarly papers to cite! On [...]
• 2005: Managing my mail — I use Gnus, one of the many mail/news clients available for Emacs. The following features help me manage the volume of [...]
• 2004: gnu.emacs.sources/tex-skak.el: a way to typeset chess moves and board diagrams in LaTeX — This is a special mode for editing LaTeX files which use the skak package. \usepackage{skak} is a beautiful way to typeset [...]
• 2004: Picking projects for the open house — http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/cs21b/games.zip contains the final projects from last semester’s CS21A. Try them out – they’re pretty cool! We’re thinking of having a few [...]
• 2004: CS161 Long Test 2 anecdotes — Jino stood up to pass his paper. Miguel Arguelles pounded his desk in annoyance, and everybody laughed. Apparently, he was trying [...]
• 2004: Dilbert comic on dangerous geekettes — http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20040215.html Peppy said: couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the date on that Dilbert strip forwarded to you by Eric. didn’t occur [...]
• 2004: Windows to Linux roadmap — “You’re moving from Windows to Linux. You’ve decided you want the stability, flexibility, and cost savings of Linux, but you have [...]