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On This Day...

• 2012: It’s okay if you don’t do everything — People often tell me that they feel frustrated because they don’t have the time to explore their interests or build [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending July 16, 2011 — Work is heating up and there’s lots of things to do in life as well. Reasonably fast and steady wins [...]
• 2010: Using org2blog to publish Org-mode subtrees — This patch modifies punchagan’s org2blog to allow you to publish an Org subtree with M-x org2blog-post-subtree. It posts a [...]
• 2008: Emacs: Smarter interactive prompts with Org remember templates — Paul Lussier wanted to know how to interactively prompt for a value and use that value multiple times in org-remember-templates. [...]
• 2008: Emacs: BBDB: Modifying the record creation process — You might want to add fields to the record creation process in M-x bbdb-create. In addition to asking for name, [...]
• 2006: Pimp My Emacs — Along the lines of TV shows like Pimp My Ride, I’m thinking of regularly blogging something along the lines of Pimp [...]
• 2006: Emacs BBDB magic: Greeting people with nicknames — I use Gnus to read my mail within the Emacs text editor. One of the advantages of using a mail client [...]
• 2005: More thoughts about home — ka edong is right. we do what we can. but coming back to the philippines? i dunno. opportunities are not as [...]
• 2005: CiteULike: Social bookmarking for scientists and researchers — Following on the heels of popular social bookmarking services such as del.icio.us and Furl is CiteULike, a service specifically geared toward scientists and [...]
• 2004: “Father of Visual Basic Begs: Stop the Insanity!” — In his book, “The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity,” [...]
• 2004: “IBM Tool Has an Eye for the Blind” — Available for download on IBM’s alphaWorks emerging technologies Web site is aDesigner, a 4.6 MB Java-based application that shows how a [...]