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On This Day...

• 2012: 524 wontons — We spent the afternoon making a quadruple batch of Jamie Oliver’s shrimp wonton recipe with way more garlic, sesame oil, [...]
• 2012: Tablet adventures: Using my TF700 as a second monitor with AirDisplay — UPDATE 2012-07-29: Hmm, I’m getting some weird mouse behaviour after disconnecting from AirDisplay. I’ll look into this some more tomorrow. Multiple [...]
• 2011: Long weekend ahead — The long-weekend fairy has snuck up on me again. (Don’t you just love it when that happens?) I’m tempted to [...]
• 2010: A philosophy of sharing and a truth about teaching — SCHEDULED: 2010-07-29 Thu 08:00 /Neal Schaffer thanked me for teaching him the zen of Slideshare. He confessed that [...]
• 2009: Laptop hard disk still dead — My laptop hard disk is still dead, but I’m surviving.
• 2009: Unstructured time — The first thread: Paul Graham described the difference between makers’ schedules and managers’ schedules as the difference between needing long [...]
• 2008: Development kaizen: Deployment and testing — I got back yesterday to a still-empty defect list, so I decided to spend the day working on some infrastructure [...]
• 2008: From Eclipse to Emacs: Drupal development with Subversion, tags, templates, and xdebug — Yesterday, I started working on my Drupal project in Emacs. I can’t believe I hadn’t moved to Emacs earlier. =) I [...]
• 2007: GTD in Emacs — credmp has an excellent blog post on GTD with Emacs using Planner and Remember. I’m so happy! =) Random Emacs symbol: [...]
• 2007: Weekly review: July 23 to July 29 — Goals from last week: Goals last week This week Finish and print thesis draft In progress. Up to the tenth revision of my paper. [...]
• 2006: Simon — How can I give you a better sense of the person whom I like? Perhaps by thinking out loud, I’ll be [...]
• 2005: Blast from the past — If you want to know what I’ve been up to all this while, check out 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001. <laugh> planner-notes-index.el does [...]
• 2005: More about credit cards — Chargecards.ca has the goods on credit cards in Canada. Check out the list of student-friendly credit cards for no-fee low-minimum-income [...]
• 2004: Great hackers — A new Paul Graham essay! As always, quite cool. Great Hackers
• 2004: Clair Ching’s blog — http://www.livejournal.com/users/eclair/
• 2004: “While Rome Burns?” — “Code Complete” author Steve McConnell told SD West 2004 attendees that good software relies chiefly on personal discipline rather than technology, and [...]
• 2003: jica — project-type cooperation grant aid donor company will send the experts from universities and private industries technology traansfer, equipment technical cooperation project training center in [...]
• 2002: Cool mom and Linux — Ooh! And I tried walking my mom through the process of getting the Linux box at home on the Net [...]