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On This Day...

• 2012: Thinking about the next mini-experiment — The consulting engagement I’m working on is great. It takes advantage of a hard-to-find combination of different skills and experiences, [...]
• 2011: Learning from Mr. Collins: Practice, conversation, and what to do when someone says something mean — "You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering [...]
• 2010: Travel kaizen and the meaning of life — What do I want to do with my life? Is it worth the trade-offs? How can I make it more [...]
• 2008: Emacs Gnus: Organize Your Mail — People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need [...]
• 2008: Too much time on her hands — “Where do you find the time to do that?” That’s what I often hear from people when I talk about [...]
• 2008: Emacs Gnus: Searching Mail — There are several ways to find messages in Emacs. From the summary buffer, you can use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) to display all [...]
• 2007: Plodding away on my thesis — So I’m transcribing the interviews of the usability study. It’s nice hearing the good things again, but I’m seriously thinking that [...]
• 2006: Another aspect of what I want to do — From netsquared comment: Although I’ve studied the material provided here, what I would really like is to be able to hire [...]
• 2006: Social media for social change — This is one of the reasons I love technology. On Technorati: social, web2.0 Random Japanese sentence: ある日、彼女はペットの猫がほしいと私に知らせました。 One day, she told me that [...]
• 2006: Yesterday was a hot chocolate day — The hot chocolate at Linux Caffe (Grace and Harbord Sts.) never fails to perk me up. Yesterday was no exception even though [...]
• 2006: First baseball game — I watched my very first baseball game last night, thanks to Graduate House Council’s awesomely discounted $5 field-level seats (face price: $34.50, [...]
• 2006: Congrats to Von Totanes! — Von Totanes has just received his Canadian visa, and will be starting his PhD in information studies Really Soon. Hooray [...]
• 2006: Oatmeal hacking — One of the nice things about knowing geeks is that they often have another geek specialty. For example, Paul Lussier [...]
• 2006: My mom reads my blog — My mom reads my blog, and that’s absolutely terrific. =) I love hearing her insights into the things I’m trying to [...]
• 2006: Old friends and familiar strangers — I don’t know why so many people read about the cooking misadventures and existential crises of this 22-year-old girl, but I [...]
• 2006: Downtime — As guilty as I feel about taking another day off, unavoidable personal circumstances have come up, and a little bit of [...]
• 2006: Being a girl — Tara Hunt knows what it’s like to fade into the background if one has a partner in crime. I don’t really have [...]
• 2006: Why blogging is cool — I hear this story again and again, in different words. This is one of the reasons why blogging is so [...]
• 2006: Programming for kids — On the Kagay-anon Linux Users Group mailing list: we will just help kids learn the basics of programming, logic formulation, flowcharting and [...]
• 2004: Double Room: prose poetry and short fiction — Double Room: prose poetry and short fiction — http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/
• 2004: Indexer for planner notes — Just realized that planner-search-notes with a match-all will do perfectly well. I don’t have to do this yet, then. =) WearableMemoryAugmentation
• 2004: dabbrev-hover — dabbrev-hover http://gnufans.net/~deego Tooltip-show the next completion. Hmm, that’s nice. E-Mail from D. Goel
• 2004: Musical letters — Musical letters — http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~jcorneli/a/elisp/musical-letters.el Joe Corneli’s written an interface to fluidsynth driven by Emacs typing. Sounds like the sort of multimedia stuff [...]
• 2004: Japanese for nerds — Japanese for nerds — http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/26/175722/727
• 2004: BlueJ wiki — http://wiki.bluej.org E-Mail from Davin McCall
• 2004: w000t! Got perfect on my general GRE! — Got 800 on both the verbal and quantitative sections of the general GRE test. Whee!
• 2003: Xemacs text menus? — Does XEmacs even have text menu support? I’m looking for something like tmm.
• 2003: message-sent-hook — Strange, the hook is locally set to (gnus-agent-possibly-do-gcc t), but message-to-planner gets called.
• 2003: pda dev class — I need to look into dualbooting iPAQs so that Stanley and I can share the iPAQs. We’ll need high-capacity CompactFlash [...]
• 2003: Message to planner — (defun message-to-planner () "Logs this message to the News and Mail section of today's planner file." (save-window-excursion [...]
• 2003: Logging gnus messages — (defun message-to-diary () (make-diary-entry (concat (calendar-date-string (calendar-current-date) t) (if (message-fetch-field "newsgroups") [...]
• 2003: Constructivism — - problem-based learning - case-based learning - goal-based scenarios CAI: Output should be a constructivist module
• 2003: Stuff I need to take care of — - Mindstorms? Mostly Stanley - Alternative user interfaces: order my keyboards and HMDs, and think of good research projects Oooh! DoubleTalk speech [...]
• 2003: Codestriker debs — Codestriker is a web-based collaborative code review tool. deb http://nthomas.free.fr/debian sid main deb-src http://nthomas.free.fr/debian sid main
• 2003: Need to make a list of things I’d like — - Twiddler - other keyboards - head-mounted device
• 2003: Debian-related HOWTOs — http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/
• 2003: List of UML products — http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byPlatform.html
• 2003: Pen tablet that can run Linux — Someone on PLUG said that the Fujitsu Stylistic 1000 is a “dirt-cheap” pen tablet that can run Linux, and that too [...]
• 2003: CS161 William — CS161 CS becomes 162, which is a combination of CS161 and systems programming. Change of textbook back to Tanenbaum. Lab class. CS162a&b. [...]