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A Poor-Aunt Story

Posted on May 20th, 2004 by Sacha Chua

Haruki Murakami

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On This Day...

2012: Planning my life — I often think about what I want in life. What do I want to learn? What do I want to [...]
2011: Waiting for my Kindle — I’m waiting for the delivery of my Kindle. Well, I’m not really waiting for it. I’m waiting for my co-worker [...]
2011: Travel updates: GPS, Pearl Street, Vibram toe shoes — From Thursday evening: Success! I spent late afternoon and evening wandering around Pearl Street Mall and thereabouts in Boulder, Colorado. I [...]
2010: Thinking about the path ahead — Yes, I know, I said I wasn’t going to overthink this career thing. During a bike ride to work, [...]
2007: At the airport — The din of the airport fades into the background, the white noise of hushed conversations in a hundred languages and suitcases [...]
2006: Schadenfreude — schadenfreude: pleasure taken from someone else’s misfortune It’s always nice to know that I have friends who read my blog and [...]
2004: Bookpool — Allan T. Moster thinks that Bookpool is cool. Said shipping was free. Not sure if that applies to the Philippines. Head-First Java [...]
2004: Debugging Emacs hangs — Run emacs in gdb, preferably from the src directory where you compiled emacs: $ cd ~/emacs-build/src [...]
2004: Emacs-wiki documentation in Japanese — http://www-aos.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takagi/EmacsWiki.html

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- Nrkkalyan Nice – May 18, 1:31 PM
- 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
- Raymond Zeitler Your blog is refreshingly free of advertisements. So I receive it as a pure form of self-expression and an altruistic willingness to help others --... – May 18, 11:14 AM
- sachac Hilarity! =) Glad it helped. You can also find keybindings with C-h f <function-name> Undo-tree is pretty darn cool. =) – May 18, 11:08 AM
- Raymond Zeitler Excellent! This 13-year user didn't know about C-h w . I would always invoke M-x and then stare at the mini buffer for the brief... – May 18, 10:53 AM
- FreakSQuirreL Really nice! I got here after a friend shared a link to your blog :) I will keep spreading your work to help those who... – May 18, 9:48 AM
- vec nice sheet though, maybe that'll help me to get into emacs – May 18, 9:00 AM
- vec > “Emacs vs. Vi” holy war (one of the classic battles in computer science) no, not really! computer science deals in way more complex problems. – May 18, 8:59 AM
- Adam Awan Thanks Sascha, great sketch. I found it hard to move away from Vim until I found Evil (Extensible Vi Layer) for Emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil This replaces... – May 18, 8:57 AM
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