2012: Learning how to bring people together — Many people I know are looking for their next opportunity – freelancing, consulting, full-time or part-time jobs. One of my [...]
2008: Week ending Oct 5 — Accomplishments:
Created saved searches/alerts module for Drupal-based project
Prepared Gen Y banking scenarios for an upcoming client workshop
Connected lots of dots
Attended WordCampToronto, [...]
2008: Sewing: Wool jumper, blazer —
(blazer not pictured). This is the jumper I made following Simplicity 4097. I also made a blazer from the pattern. [...]
2008: My blog should be a little bit faster now — I picked up a lot of ideas from this weekend’s WordCampToronto, and I’m looking forward to doing a front-page redesign [...]
2007: Remembering to Org and Planner — Most of my notes are in Emacs Planner. Handy commands like M-x
remember help me quickly take notes and write down [...]
2007: Emacs multi-tty is sweet — The multiple-terminal support in Emacs 23 (CVS) means that I can leave
my main Emacs session running on my laptop, connect [...]
2007: Very odd – caring about the nitty-gritty — While reviewing the volunteer application form for a charity that I’m
thinking of supporting, I grew uncomfortable with the confidentiality
agreement. In [...]
2006: Rotman School of Management: Nexus for non-profits — Ushnish Sengupta told me about
Nexus, the Rotman School of
Management’s initiative for providing low-cost services to non-profit
organizations. Already in its second [...]
2006: Clearing e-mail clutter — I’ve set almost all of my Yahoogroups mailing lists on Special Notice
only to curb my inbox overload. I’ll reenable them [...]
Dave Marquardt Hey, remember how I couldn't see your drawing? It was a Feedly thing, and I can see the drawing just fine on your web site. – May 18, 11:49 AM
Gath Gealaich What exactly means "W-"? It sounds like a manufacturer designation. Or do other parts of this planet have naming and typographic conventions I'm not familiar... – May 18, 11:49 AM
Raymond Zeitler Your blog is refreshingly free of advertisements. So I receive it as a pure form of self-expression and an altruistic willingness to help others --... – May 18, 11:14 AM
sachac Hilarity! =) Glad it helped. You can also find keybindings with C-h f <function-name> Undo-tree is pretty darn cool. =) – May 18, 11:08 AM
Raymond Zeitler Excellent! This 13-year user didn't know about C-h w . I would always invoke M-x and then stare at the mini buffer for the brief... – May 18, 10:53 AM
FreakSQuirreL Really nice! I got here after a friend shared a link to your blog :) I will keep spreading your work to help those who... – May 18, 9:48 AM
vec nice sheet though, maybe that'll help me to get into emacs – May 18, 9:00 AM
vec > “Emacs vs. Vi” holy war (one of the classic battles in computer science) no, not really! computer science deals in way more complex problems. – May 18, 8:59 AM