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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending August 24, 2012 — There’s paint in my hair, but that’s okay. It matches the shed. From last week’s plans Business [X] Earn: [...]
• 2011: Re-setting up my computer — (From Wednesday night): With dozens of tabs open in a browser, dozens of buffers open in Emacs, and a virtual [...]
• 2010: Keeping in touch with diffuse networks — Soha wrote: I’m a long time reader of your blog and I must say it’s pretty amazing and inspiring. [...]
• 2009: IBM Drupal Drop-in Clinic — I love this! I’m practically running an IBM Drupal drop-in clinic at 120 Bloor E, helping five developers on two [...]
• 2009: Growing as a presenter — After attending a full-day IBM course on creating effective presentations last Friday, I felt like challenging myself to figure out [...]
• 2005: Argh. Got my own number wrong. — I’ve been writing down “832″ instead of “834″ as the first three digits of my cellphone. Argh.
• 2005: Planner tip: What day is it? — I sometimes forget what day it is, so I changed my planner template to something that fills in the day, too. (defun [...]
• 2005: Wow! Cleared my mail inbox! — Finally unticked everything in mail.misc and mail.planner. All the ticked mails are now represented as tasks in my planner… Yay! =) That [...]
• 2005: Burst of productivity, thoughts on maintenance — It’s 9:17 and I’m looking at a neat list of completed planner tasks, mainly thanks to Sergey Vlasov’s attention to detail [...]
• 2004: Day 1: Orientation — From 9:30 to 12:00, people from AOTS, METI and other organizations talked about the course we are about to take. In [...]
• 2004: Org maintainer ultra-active! ^_^ — The org.el maintainer seems to be as compulsive as I am; probably Googles for org.el just like I check for PlannerMode [...]
• 2003: *** Attendance — Vision The SMIT-Ed Program will become a recognized center for competency, research, and educational policy in math, science and IT education, [...]
• 2003: Bootstrapping Debian onto Bleeding-Edge Hardware — http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg01080.html