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Weekly review

This week

Send thesis draft to people, really. Done.
Check paperwork requirements for post-graduate work permit and start compiling them. Started
Revise CASCON paper. Done.
Do one week + one advance post for Booksnake. Done. Pretty handy…
Plan birthday event, really. Bah.
Touch IBM blogosphere. Done.
Swim. Done.
Pay rent and balance books. Done.
Learn about sales. Done.

Other accomplishments:

  • Got on Second Life.
  • Tried out scripting: built interview bot.
  • Read five books; three of them were worth it.
  • Attended birthday celebrations for W-.
  • Hung out with Steve.
  • Went to Yoga for Geeks.
  • Drafted blogging presentation.

Next week:

  • Prepare presentation for thesis defense.
  • Defend thesis.
  • Write and mail birthday letter.
  • Choose driving school.
  • Go to Toronto Circus School drop-in trapeze lessons.

Random Emacs symbol: term-how-many-region – Function: Return number of matches for REGEXP from BEG to END.

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/4317

On This Day...

  • 2012: Building MobileOrg for Android — If you want to use your Android device to work with your Org-mode files, there’s MobileOrg and there’s MobileOrg NG. [...]
  • 2011: Drupal, HTML Purifier, and embedding IFRAMES from YouTube — I know, I know. I shouldn’t allow IFRAMEs at all. But the client’s prospective users were really excited about images [...]
  • 2010: Long weekend reflections — Long weekends? We don’t pack our bags and travel, or kick our feet up and chill out at our (non-existent) [...]
  • 2009: In-jokes and shared experiences — W- helped me put together some wire shelves for plants. One of the rods was deformed, so he brought out [...]
  • 2009: Weekly review: Week ending August 2, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Do some Facebook strategy consulting Find ways to recognize the contributions people had made to the idea lab [...]
  • 2008: Drupal shell: quickly evaluating PHP statements in a Drupal context — I often find myself needing to variable_set something temporarily, just to try things out. The drush module provides a command-line [...]
  • 2007: Moving back to PCFinancial — I think I’ll move back to PCFinancial for my banking. I don’t think I’ll need any financial statements for my future [...]
  • 2005: Changing patterns of computing — I managed to leave my laptop at home today! =) That forced me to be productive all day. See how many [...]
  • 2005: On mailing lists — I find it a bit strange that people here like broadcasting their messages by putting everyone in To: or Cc:. I [...]
  • 2004: Philippine comic book blog — http://filipinocomics.blogspot.com E-Mail from Julius Oliveros
  • 2003: Emacs macros — Keyboard macros in Emacs allow me to easily generate the gallery from the pipe-separated values I exported from Gnumeric. Viva open [...]
  • 2003: RSS feed — I think it should be relatively easy to publish an RSS feed of the links from my planner wiki…
  • 2003: Plans — I’m going to try to move my plans up by a year. I suspect I’ll learn more by going to graduate [...]
  • 2003: Experts — I think I’ve a way to deal with my large CS123 class: topic experts. Each group has experts in charge of [...]
  • 2003: Teaching — Holding up. Doing remarkably well, in fact – probably because I’m too busy to do anything else. The sheer magnitude of [...]
  • 2003: Communication — Considering that I tend to text long messages in bursts, it might actually make more sense for me to stay at [...]
  • 2003: Redesign — Using objects in the beginning - graphics right away; bounds and draw promotes object reuse - using objects - implementing methods - expressions - if - loops - [...]
  • 2003: http://www.geocities.com/fanny11sy/featured-projects
  • 2003: JPCS conference — end of august, one way of reviving contact with JPCS. Need a venue for a seminar for the gathering of all [...]
  • 2003: Java patterns — http://www.anupriyo.com/oopfm.shtml

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