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On This Day...

• 2012: 2012 as a sketch — Here’s how I’d like to remember 2012. =) (See also this quick month-by-month summary) For comparison, here’s the sketch and summary [...]
• 2011: How I used the 5-day holiday — I took Friday off because I had worked the previous weekend, so our Christmas / Boxing Day holiday turned into [...]
• 2010: The great washing machine adventure — There’s this odd little holiday called Boxing Day right after Christmas. In Canada, it seems to be primarily celebrated through [...]
• 2009: Meeting resolutions — I want to participate in and facilitate better meetings. Here are some resolutions I will strive towards: I will make sure [...]
• 2006: Games — I realized today that Nethack isn’t fun for me. I admit, I like some of it, and it’s kinda cool that [...]
• 2006: Starting life on the lecture circuit — My dad gave a day-long seminar on photography to more than fifty photographers from Naga and surrounding areas. He’s been thinking about [...]
• 2004: FreeBSD installation plans — I would like to install FreeBSD, just for kicks. I need a primary partition free, though. That means I’ll need to [...]
• 2004: Waah. Bad day, code-wise — A bit of code thrashing in planner.el as I… err… committed silly mistakes. How embarrassing. I’m so, so sorry. I hope [...]
• 2004: sacha/planner-strip-task-numbers — (defun sacha/planner-strip-task-numbers () (interactive) (while (re-search-forward "^#.\\([0-9]+\\)\\s-+.\\s-+" nil t) (replace-match "" t t nil 1)) [...]
• 2004: Proof-of-concept code for autosensing task information — (defun sacha/planner-create-task-from-buffer () (interactive) (let ((annotation (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'planner-annotation-functions)) (default-text "") [...]
• 2003: Herding cats — Neko batted playfully at the USB drives dangling from my fingers as I chatted on the phone. A little too playfully, [...]
• 2003: Oooh, one of my students is into GTK! — I’m pleasantly surprised to see one of my students exploring GTK by porting his old class projects from Java to C [...]
• 2003: Chat with Jerome about friendship — <sigh> Sorry, encrypted; this is for me to remember, and you probably won’t want to read this anyway.
• 2003: Christmas memories — Before I forget, let me go through a backlog of stories. Dropped by the CompSAt Christmas party and the Trend Micro [...]