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On This Day...

• 2012: Business notes: Working with a virtual accountant — My fiscal year-end is September 30, which means I don’t have to compete with all the individuals and sole proprietors [...]
• 2011: Hacking Drupal views and taxonomy: looking for 100% matching of terms — I’m working on a Drupal 6 site that helps match volunteers to speaking opportunities, or sessions. I use Taxonomy to [...]
• 2010: Thoughts on writing and starting again — Rominia asked: I’m one of those people who start on a diary or a blog, so excited about it, but never [...]
• 2008: Might need to spend more time hanging out with Emacs geeks =) — This is dreadful. I’ve made no progress on my book, and I’ve noticed that it has steadily crept down my [...]
• 2008: Configuration management with Drupal – Multiple developers, live site — We’ve moved into the next phase of our development. External users now have access to our testing server, and theylle [...]
• 2008: What do I want to learn? — Inspired by Michele Martin’s post on personal learning environments, I started working on a mindmap and a blog post about [...]
• 2007: Eoin Colfer! — We picked up four volumes in Eoin Colfer’s totally awesome fiction series, Artemis Fowl. I had fallen in love with the [...]
• 2005: GOT MY VISA! Despedida details — The Canadian Embassy approved my student visa! I’m really going to go to Canada on July 15, 2005! Yay! I’ll be holding [...]
• 2005: Scriptaculous! – Javascript wizardry — For the Javascript-challenged among us, myself included, script.aculo.us is a godsend. This is where you can pick up code for drag-and-drop lists [...]
• 2005: Bloglines — If you read a number of blogs that don’t update regularly, take advantage of RSS aggregators like Bloglines. You [...]
• 2004: Learning kanji — Learning kanji – http://www2.gol.com/users/jpc/Japan/Kanji/KanjiLearn/
• 2004: Japanese links — http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.rowley/resources.html
• 2004: Someone into Emacs, Debian GNU/Linux and Japanese — http://www.crasseux.com/linux/ Associate member #4! Nice.
• 2004: Navigating the kill ring — Snippet from bojohan: (defun yank-rpop (arg) (interactive "*p") (yank-pop (- arg))) Map this to M-Y and you’ll be all set.
• 2003: Mind-mapping application — http://freemind.sourceforge.net
• 2003: Game blog — http://www.costik.com/weblog/
• 2003: Linux is an umbrella — I’ve compared Linux to hot chocolate before (see below for anecdote). Apparently, I’m not the only one geek who sees computer [...]