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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 5): Getting started — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Book: Thank You for Arguing — (c) 2009 Mark Robinson – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln [...]
• 2009: Personal connection and a trip to the dentist — A personal connection can make going to the dentist a lot of fun. I like going to my dentist. Part of [...]
• 2009: Dinner on the periodic table — Geekiness makes my heart flutter. Last night, we had dinner with W-’s family. Conversation topic? The periodic table, would you believe [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending Sept 28 — Accomplishments: I prepared and gave a presentation on Gen Y and how work is changing to an IBM team that [...]
• 2006: Geek dinners and networking ideas — Kevin McIntosh’s presentation on networking reminded me of Geek Dinner. I’ve been meaning to organize one of these for ages. You [...]
• 2006: The power of sales — Simon just finished a sales call that came in through a referral. He’s got a pretty nifty voice messaging system (for [...]
• 2006: Networking is about being memorable; the art of the deep bump — Kevin McIntosh made a couple of great points at last night’s Newpath Network workshop. One of my favorite ideas from [...]
• 2006: Networking story: Being in the right place at the right time — At last night’s New Path Network workshop, Alex Sirota told us a story about how Fernando Morales networked his way [...]
• 2006: Emacs BBDB: Prioritize exact matches — I often include people’s names in my notes on other people, such as when I’m tracking who introduced me to whom. [...]
• 2006: Notes from KMD2004 meeting — Attendance: Dave Kemp, MJ Suhonos, Sacha Chua Next action Work on individual ANT maps, due Oct 5 Next meeting Oct 5 2:00 PM at [...]
• 2006: Stories from the NY trip — The e-ticket from the bus company said that people should arrive twenty minutes early in order to keep their reservation priority. [...]
• 2006: Stories from New York: Making things happen — I was thrilled when the Greater IBM Initiative invited me to be one of the Core Connectors. Thrilled, yes, and more [...]
• 2006: Networking: Create value with your business cards — Business cards are not only a good way to leave your contact information with people, but they can be a great [...]
• 2006: Hospitality — Someday I want to be able to make people feel as welcome as Luis Suarez felt in Cincinnati: But on [...]
• 2006: Emacs BBDB: Filtering tags with the power of lambda expressions — What do you do when you’re into both Emacs geeks and social networking? Well, you build a really really weird contact [...]
• 2006: Taking the Terror out of Talk — Does the thought of speaking in public make you anxious? Want some tips on how to deal with the butterflies in [...]
• 2005: Synchronicity — Life happens when you open yourself to unexpected things. Today I talked to James, Greenpeace volunteer in front of Graduate House. I [...]
• 2005: Not joining the Rotary Club — Frank Adamo suggested joining the Rotary Club or the Rotaract Club, so I filled out the online application form for the [...]
• 2005: More about lectures — Today’s class in Engineering Psychology and Human Performance was a lot more engaging. Prof. Milgram walked us through a typical problem, and [...]
• 2004: find-buffer-visiting — Now there’s a useful Emacs function. I might be able to use that for planner-tasks-file-behavior…
• 2004: Mysterious font-locking problems — It appears that newly-opened files don’t have buffer-file-names until they’re saved. I may have to do something fancy.
• 2004: Letter for Marcelle — Happy birthday, Marcell! I’ll unencrypt this if the postcard gets lost. -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) hQEOAzQ6c9jHW5SMEAQAvrfUEFGHbeuvc66Zg4isWG+IU3n/ezUJCgPBh3Eoqx0t otsMX+eq7av1bsrLHWkvRPblcb42bEvZjXdCSVUJkgxLoYc6C16r+2UxGaHWnZkL 57XBsKl7sMPtp5V3xPNpevuU5qeqj/Bp14jIq0I63Zyw3YHvag27y6Q7y/f9snwE AJjql9Rs/EESr1ULq9Y5vqsefT1BZfryt4EhFz3cRT1I8yxhODqp1T3Plk6p4k5P MVD+jJY3SQXJdKS0jHJXI3hbz9JAlypy984GPYG8j8dhTQP+ltCzr7Gaxack4U9O +oTGm6PcQeZon46Q/y1rjZdw6zO/c7bWC3b7+2A7xl/o0sC7AU8qiEUHb5oU+dML 79zTUOgCu6Zn4rRCPbeipkY/LRrZay+jd5Hb8J0ATkLPa6LRLjVB+pEN5PIp6Zav /YW2Su9gEeN3V1kMlZauv+vwQfsOC065PJ51koe+C4G1wTzTOlc0Wh/wpwfAlaAS 95Gz8RmupeaHiZcY/zKGKpHZ0Gq0AAy5nRYJTC/wqjlP0lLTFxyb4QjZWATrI3cM Bd8o8oYTfmSYgDdjRgvlyurVLoQlLQ7uknvTGT5J5c74htzdGLPq0msmKFr3f7fz 01yXQFvNOUMQ8ghVjDl5p7Hm5tIDztB+bhbodwomIOAmj4d+uMqIayb9AtV3+e6d Od4xuwOq59Zr9JynGjvQjdQzs6SvTLhJdT5S24rZGsnGwGxusQESbqVdnvd9dCjX /bM1MgT2VaeNBSyD9T5jKwXngg6hpBJNCqyGLb6E81VYja8OP9kCOdncI+nThyVI i0MXOlN/2LuYMMMv4hqE6em56haCpsa6G8ezH8HGTg== =rruK -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
• 2003: SMIT Ed — Review of the minutes Review of the textbooks The group met last Friday. They have decided to look at both the elementary and [...]
• 2003: TagBoard — I should integrate this into the site someday. netscape_support(); Powered by TagBoard Message Board Name URL or Email Messages(smilies) rememberme()
• 2003: Elisp snippet for mailing feedback — (defun sacha/mail-cs21a-feedback (id) (interactive "MID:") (save-excursion (insert "\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n" [...]
• 2003: Upcoming ACM regionals — http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/regionals/UpcomingRegionals.html