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On This Day...

• 2011: Decision review: Scheduling posts and using themes — I started using Posts Calendar to plan my blog while preparing for our trip to the Philippines. I wanted to [...]
• 2010: Android: Tracking sleep with Sleep Bot — I recently switched to an early-morning schedule, just for fun. Tracking my sleep helps me motivate myself to go to [...]
• 2009: Learning how to write — Text: I want to write better so that I can learn and share even more. I outsourced editing so that [...]
• 2007: Yay, I got to talk to my dad today — Kathy helped my dad set up Skype and video, so I got to chat with him today too. Happy happy happy! [...]
• 2007: Feedwordpress and Planner blog = awesome — I’ve been thinking about adding public comments and other nifty features to my Planner blog for the longest time. It would [...]
• 2007: Last week — And if you’re wondering what happened last week and why I hadn’t gotten around to writing a weekly review – my [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — I spent Monday to Wednesday at the new hire orientation at IBM. It was a terrific orientation that not only showed [...]
• 2007: Sent the first chapter of Wicked Cool Emacs — Operating on the principle that it’s better to have a terrible first draft than none at all, I’ve sent 21 pages [...]
• 2006: Woohoo! Global organization for technology evangelists! — Kudos to Dean Michael Berris for telling me about a newly-formed organization for technology evangelists! The first conference is on December [...]
• 2006: Musicals — After watching Wicked last Wednesday with Wayne Young, I realized that I’d been missing out on so much by not watching [...]
• 2005: Trend Micro programming contest champions – MSU IIT! — Got the news from a text message posted to the Kagay-anon Linux Users Group. =) Congratulations to MSU-IIT, Grand Champions for [...]
• 2004: Poi/staff club — sakuragicho 6:00 onwards honmatsu shougakkou taikikan. hidarigawa no chiisa na mon.
• 2003: emacs-wiki new versions — When Damien Elmes said he was working on a backlog of emacs-wiki stuff, he wasn’t kidding! <laugh> Well, this probably means I [...]
• 2003: CS21A yesterday (2003.11.24) — Did anonymous feedback. Again, I’m seeing roughly half the class having no problems with it, and half intimidated by their classmates. I [...]
• 2003: CS161 yesterday 2003.11.24 — I told the history of UNIX starting with Space Travel on an obsolete PC and ending with a description of UNIX’s [...]
• 2003: Added notes about my use for remember.el — Described what I used remember.el for, which may help newbies or people wondering what the heck this is anyway. RememberEl