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On This Day...

• 2008: Weekly report — One week on the ground--that's all I have in between flights. We got back from a two-week vacation in the [...]
• 2007: Collaboration — Now is about the right time for me to step up my job search. I sent my resume to some of [...]
• 2007: Sorting out my schedule — The days are just packed. I need to think of how to balance my time. There'll never be enough time in [...]
• 2006: Friends — My best friend from Japan is in the Philippines, and I'm glad to hear that my mom and my friends are [...]
• 2006: Potluck last night — I had a potluck dinner with Lusine, James and Stefan last night. Tons of fun! We enjoyed chatting about things as [...]
• 2005: Networking — The network tester I bought yesterday was very useful. Celine and Yaya suddenly lost network connection, and the tester quickly showed [...]
• 2004: Sniff, sniff — I was trying to get rid of a stray directory called ~ when I accidentally zapped my home directory instead. Fortunately, [...]
• 2003: [[bbdb://jm.ibanez][JM Ibanez]] tries out Emacs — Looks like UA&P geek JM Ibanez has taken the plunge! =) Welcome to the Emacs world, JM.
• 2003: .htaccess and RedirectMatch — RedirectMatch permanent /~sachac/notebook/wiki/(.*).html /~sachac/notebook/wiki/$1.php is a very funky .htaccess line that helps me deal with the Great Renaming.
• 2003: Gnus and duplicates — emacs — I am very, very glad that Gnus can automatically delete duplicates with (setq nnmail-treat-duplicates 'delete) .
• 2003: Speech Synthesis — Making Computers Talk is a Scientific American article about developing speech synthesizers. You might also be interested in SALT, an XML standard [...]
• 2003: Can IT Still Attract the Best and the Brightest? — From ACM Technews: http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21095.html - "Far from draining the field of the most talented IT workers, there is a distinct possibility that [...]
• 2003: filesets.el — emacs — help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Thomas Link: filesets.el in CVS Emacs, and also at http://members.a1.net/t.link/CompEmacsFilesets.html . "filesets.el makes it easy to open frequently accessed files. In conjunction [...]
• 2003: comp.sys.wearables call for moderators — What, there's a comp.sys.wearables? Must head over to http://groups.google.com ...
• 2003: curriculum review template created. — Cross-reference: CurriculumReview#1
• 2003: completion on name of wiki page — Cross-reference: PlannerMode#9
• 2003: How Software Companies Die - Orson Scott Card — Looks like one of my favorite novelists has some insights on the software industry. http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=DeveloperBees, from Google:orson+scott+card+software+companies, from a Slashdot comment on programmer psychology. The [...]
• 2003: open source courseware links from blogs — Cross-reference: OpenSourceCourseware#1
• 2003: eclipse ide — One of these days I should really try out Eclipse. Rumor has it that it's much like Emacs, but runs on Java.
• 2003: game blog — Again from http://slashdot.org: http://www.corante.com/gotgame/ is a blog about the gaming industry. Eric and some other gamedev geeks might be interested in [...]
• 2003: psychology of programmers — http://slashdot.org links to http://www.devx.com/devx/editorial/11659, an article that talks about "flow" and how to encourage programmer creativity. Pretty good suggestions, like letting developers [...]
• 2003: kitten — Cross-reference: KittenWhoMustNotBeNamed#1

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