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On This Day...

• 2013: Debugging my brain: typos (write-os?) in my sketchnotes — Embarrassing mistakes are excellent ways to find and deal with bugs in your life. A couple of months ago, I [...]
• 2010: How to get people to read your blog post — … is a useful question, but it’s the wrong one. Catchy titles and controversial topics are good at drawing eyes, [...]
• 2009: Tips for managing virtual assistants — There are plenty of tips out there for becoming a virtual assistant, but not that many for managing virtual assistants. [...]
• 2009: The Enchantress of Numbers; Happy Ada Lovelace Day! — Today is the first Ada Lovelace Day, dedicated to the celebration of women in technology. =) It’s interesting to think about [...]
• 2009: Digraphs with Graphviz — And for the geeks, here’s the Graphviz dot file that created the graph in How to do a lot. Posting [...]
• 2009: How to do a lot — People often ask me how I get so much done. It gets almost funny, even: some people seem to think [...]
• 2008: Vision + Value + Voice = Connection — Gary Brown e-mailed me this insightful manifesto from Michael Lee Stallard, an expert on client and employee engagement. In it, [...]
• 2008: Jetlag-assisted wakefulness — I was out like a light last night at maybe 8:00 or so. Jetlag. Today I woke up at 3:30. [...]
• 2008: Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Use nicknames and custom salutations — I like starting my e-mail with a short salutation such as “Hello, Mike!”, “Hello, Michael”, or “Hello, Mikong!”, but it [...]
• 2007: Eclairs — The house smells of eclairs, and stories are baked into those light-brown shells! Random Emacs symbol: ebnf-spool-directory – Command: Generate and spool [...]
• 2006: Level up: Salmon! — I cooked salmon for the first time today. =D I followed the recipe for salmon with avocado with lots of [...]
• 2006: Level up! Steak and potatoes — After giving that cook-or-die speech, I felt like treating myself to something special. So for today: pepper steak and mashed potatoes! This [...]
• 2006: Toastmasters — If I give the universe a chance, it does its best to be absolutely wonderful. =) I had misgivings about the Toastmasters [...]
• 2006: Back in the groove — I had a totally awesome day at IBM today, crunching some data and doing some nifty photocloud visualizations of all the [...]
• 2005: Edwin’s comment on financial literacy — edwin of technobiography said: Hi Sacha, Many of us, like me, have a lot to learn about financial literacy. I’m reading up [...]
• 2005: Difficult choices — UToronto is offering me admission. An interesting startup is recruiting me. Choices are always difficult. I would like to defer my U of [...]
• 2005: MSU-IIT student wins IBM Linux Scholar Challenge — http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=31491 Filipino software developer wins IBM Linux Scholar tilt Posted 00:33am (Mla time) Mar 24, 2005 By Erwin Lemuel Oliva INQ7.net FILIPINO software development talent [...]
• 2004: CS planning meeting — Dr. Sarmenta: research. Thinking of research programs. On the positive side, CS197 this year went particularly well. Lot of good projects. One [...]
• 2004: Free.net.ph scheduled downtime — sacha@free.net.ph will be unreachable from 2004.04.07 to 2004.04.11 as Jijo’ll be working on upgrades. I can be reached… hmmm… through erc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs and [...]
• 2003: eshell extensions — emacs — In a March 6 post to the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, Romain Francoise mentions em-last.el, an eshell module that lets you cycle [...]
• 2003: kana-kanji user dictionary for Japanese LEIM — emacs — Charles Muller figured out how to add to the kana-kanji conversion dictionary – modify ja-dic.el and recompile.
• 2003: substring completion — emacs — Le Wang mentions icomplete and mcomplete in reference to substring completion in a March 4 post on the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list. Hmmmm. [...]
• 2003: Emacs menu accelerators — emacs — Jeffery B. Rancier’s March 12 post on help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org has this useful LISP snippet for Windows Emacs users: (defun jbr-w32-simulate-Alt-tap () (interactive) (w32-send-sys-command 61696)) (global-set-key [C-tab] [...]
• 2003: Info-goto-emacs-command-mode — emacs — Useful Emacs documentation thing. See Info-goto-emacs-command-mode, normally bound to C-h F in CVS Emacs.
• 2003: scroll / wheel mouse in Emacs — emacs — According to fsbot on freenode#emacs, , wheel is - http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ - Put (mwheel-install) in .emacs
• 2003: recentf.el and session.el — emacs — On the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, Hans Larsen says that session.el replaced recentf.el a long time ago. I used to use recentf.el. Maybe [...]
• 2003: Remote X terminals — The link for remote X terminals is http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html
• 2003: Finite-state automata in LaTeX — In a really old post on debian-user@lists.debian.org“>debian-user@lists.debian.org (Jan 27 2003), Mark Zimmerman suggests the use of metapost to generate pretty finite state [...]
• 2003: “Hello, tech designers? This stuff is too small” — ACM TechNews links to http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030304/4914082s.htm, an article about how small things are getting. Americans seem to not like the idea of tiny devices, [...]
• 2003: news.freshmeat.net — Google:gnus+freshmeat leads me to nntp://news.freshmeat.net, an NNTP server that provides Freshmeat news with the right subjects! Yay. I am definitely going to [...]
• 2003: pointless presentation package — http://freshmeat.net/projects/pointless/ is a text-source presentation package that might be worth looking into, although it’s just on its first public release.
• 2003: dasher and jogdial? — I wonder if there’s any way of getting dasher to work with the Sony jogdial. That might be a nice input [...]
• 2003: dvorakng – a dvorak typing tutor — The 2003.03.18 edition of Freshmeat news lists dvorakng, a GPL Dvorak typing tutor based on dvorak7min but with extra features. URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvorakng/
• 2003: Essay about Linux in University CS curricula — On the open-source-now-list@redhat.com, Dan Kegel links to his essay on the industry’s need for graduates with Linux/OSS experience, and how universities can [...]
• 2003: Gnus CVS for Debian — emacs — Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list # For daily Gnus snapshots deb http://people.debian.org/~srivasta ./packages/ Source: EmacsWiki:GnusCvsForDebian
• 2003: Linux accessibility — On the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailing list, Jerome Acks Jr. thinks that http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/index.htm is about the best Linux accessibility resource.
• 2003: disabling plugin requests in mozilla — You can also delete libnullplugin.so in the mozilla plugins directory.
• 2003: mail oops — Apparently, i-manila doesn’t take -k very well. fetchmail kept fetching old mail again and again and again… Ooops, my bad. [...]
• 2003: killing flash plugin requests — In a thread on debian-user@lists.debian.org about disabling the annoying “Download Flash Plugin?” prompt, Karsten M. Self links to http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS, which not only gets [...]
• 2003: Elbert T. Or — Elbert T. Or writes in telling me that Marcelle had been “gushing about” OnLove, of all things. Elbert is into comics. [...]