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On This Day...

• 2012: Getting together — I find that I quite enjoy slowing down and spending time with friends, bringing people together for conversation. I still [...]
• 2011: Git bisect and reversing a mistaken patch — 2011/12/09: Updated links Using version control software such as git is like slicing the bread of programming. It lets you deal [...]
• 2010: Speed-reading — Text: Speed-reading People ask me how I can read so quickly. Here are some things that might help you read and [...]
• 2009: Social media changes real-life conversations — Memnon Anon sent me a link to Matt Zimmerman’s post “Social media has made me boring“, which got me thinking [...]
• 2008: Emacs and w3m: Fake your user agent — In an ideal world, you would never need to make your browser pretend to be a different browser. In reality, [...]
• 2008: Running groups of Drupal tests from the command line — I’ve written about using drush to evaluate PHP statements in the Drupal context using the command line before, and it [...]
• 2006: Poem — Mike Fletcher wrote an inspirational poem for my birthday. I spent some time composing a reply that scanned properly in terms of [...]
• 2005: Soaked! — I thought I had escaped typhoons and bad weather. Turns out Toronto’s got them too. Without the ever-so-convenient jeepneys that ply Manila’s [...]
• 2003: juman — Package name : juman Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Sadao [...]
• 2002: Laptop’s death — My laptop died. Again. It’s really not the hard disk – I think it’s the laptop itself. Must definitely find [...]