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Emacs todo mode.el

10:46am JST Monday 5 April 2004

Awesome. I composed an email to Fred asking if he thought an emacs Things To Do mode could be easily enough created to create one. Then I realized it had probably been done already. I found todo-mode.el and downloaded the file. I searched for where to put .el files on my computer... and found that the mode is already installed on my machine. Nice. I just had to tell emacs to load it automatically when editing .todo-do files. emacs rules. Free code rules. The internet rules.

Satoko

4:02pm JST Monday 5 April 2004

Just yammered a ton with Satoko; a student I met for the first time today. She's got quite good comprehension (or fakes it *really* well haha) and ended up asking me a lot of questions about her computer and email and internet and websites and stuff. I told her about gmail.google.com and mail.lycos.com as a more conventional web based email.

She asked about my life in general and for the first time I told a significant bit about my experience in Japan and my two lives before Japan, mentioning no names.

It's quite rare that I yammer far more than my students, but she queried and I dumped. I hope it wasn't too much; my sense is that it's all good. She was quite capable of changing subjects and guiding the conversation if she had chosen.

dad

11:34pm JST Monday 5 April 2004

I called my dad on the way home. Good to talk to him briefly. He said today many square feet of concrete was being poured for a new garage and new driveway at his house. Holy cow wow!! For years there has been only a gravel driveway. What an amazing change. I wonder what other changes are in store for that house. I hope he's enjoying all the changes.

riki

12:32am JST Tuesday 6 April 2004

In Japan, we answer our phones "moshi moshi." It's the polite thing to do.

Riki just answered his phone.

"... ... mosh ... ..."