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On This Day...

• 2013: Learn Emacs Lisp by reading Emacs Lisp — Learning Emacs Lisp can help you really tweak your Emacs environment to fit you, saving time, smoothening out frustrations, and [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: Dave Ley, Jen Nolan, Leo Marland and me at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information’s career panel — (Click on the image for a larger version) Kelly Lyons and Isidora Petrovic invited Dave Ley (CIBC), Jen Nolan (IBM), Leo [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event — (Click on the image to see the larger version) The Toronto Public Library hosts monthly networking events for people who are [...]
• 2011: Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others — Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging. When I brainstormed some [...]
• 2010: Kitchen kaizen — Wednesday turns out to be the perfect day for catching up and practicing relentless improvement. It breaks up the work [...]
• 2009: Making a Name for Yourself — The key points of my talk “Making a Name for Yourself” at the Toronto College of Technology on March 14, [...]
• 2009: Virtual assistance and a review of TimeSvr, ODesk — I’m starting to get the hang of this delegation thing, and I like it. Jeff Widman pointed me to TimeSvr.com, a [...]
• 2006: Murphy’s Law — Naturally, I found my old ID a few minutes after I got it replaced. Pfft. Turned out that it had an [...]
• 2006: Keeping track of envelopes in Gnucash — I sorted out my checking/savings account today, using Gnucash to keep track of what is where. I’ve set up the transaction [...]
• 2006: Good food box contents — March 8′s Good Food Box contained: 1 head green cabbage 1/2 lbs Yukon Gold potatoes 2 lbs onion 2 lbs carrots 1 pack mushrooms 1 pint cherry tomatoes 1 head romaine lettuce 1 cantaloupe 1 bunch bananas 4 oranges 1 broccoli Help! I [...]
• 2005: In Cebu — I’m in love. I’m in love with the play of light upon the mountains and the glitter on the sea. I’m in [...]
• 2005: Norah Jones — Incidentally, went to the Norah Jones concert last night. I liked how each member of the band had their own time [...]
• 2005: Daring cat rescue! — I was in the living room getting some stuff for my trip to Cebu when I heard plaintive meowing from the [...]
• 2004: Test notes again for dates — Hmmmm
• 2004: Testing xref — ../../notebook/emacs/emacs-wiki/remember-planner.el
• 2004: Free/cheap hosting providers — http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Free_Hosting
• 2004: Microsoft, implicit queries and information retrieval — http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-5110910.html
• 2004: Another book — http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~iain/keith/
• 2004: Survey of resources — http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~weiss/ir.html
• 2004: Information retrieval: online book — http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
• 2003: planner journal linked list — Bah. Perl script to update links. Foo.
• 2003: emacs-wiki fudging — Maybe I can “publish” to an intermediate file format (replace BBDB and Gnus links, for example), and then use PHP’s file-reading [...]
• 2003: emacs-wiki-contents tag — emacs-wiki-contents tag cannot be put in the header, because it gets evaluated after the headers have been expanded.
• 2003: done with website redesign — Well, I’m done with the website redesign, so I’ll go and upload it now.
• 2003: crossroads instructions — HTML http://www.acm.org/crossroads/submit Between 1500 to 6000 words for a feature article, and 800 to 3000 words for an opinion column. In the beginning [...]
• 2003: ACM Crossroads Call for Articles — The Internet: due March 31 Computer Science Education: due April 14. http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/participation.html
• 2003: gnome b0rked — gnome-session majorly locks up my keyboard. Double plus ungood.
• 2003: printfile archival sleeves — orlando, florida 886 3100 style 2×2 20H?
• 2003: [[bbdb://Mely.Tenorio][Mely]] not picking up — I tried calling the office number again. Not picking up. I guess she’ll e-mail or text me details for the [...]
• 2003: destiny down — Destiny down again. Problems with cable signal. Of course, I forgot to take down their number…
• 2003: Fixed EmacsCvsAndDebian — Added some more notes on faking emacs21. Local wiki node EmacsCvsAndDebian, canonical location http://www.emacswiki.org
• 2003: GeekPoetry lives! — I’m resurrecting my GeekPoetry archives as a wiki node.
• 2003: added stuff to OnLove — Fleshed out my wiki node OnLove, adding a guide to going after or making friends with me.
• 2003: subdimension went down — Another free service bites the dust. I will no longer be reachable via sachac@subdimension.com, and I hope whoever sends me [...]