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On This Day...

• 2012: Experience report: Renting a business mailbox — If you don’t want to give your home address out to everyone, a private mailbox (say, one from UPS, not [...]
• 2011: ITSC guide to conference awesomeness — Darren Hudgins liked my Shy Connector presentation a lot, so he asked me to put together some quick tips to [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending February 21, 2010 — From last week’s plans: Work [/] Use new training program logo where appropriate [X] Help team members send out Idea Lab [...]
• 2010: Circuses, pots, and cathedrals: three key stories — There are three stories I refer to again and again: taking the first circus, making more pots, and building a [...]
• 2009: What does wild success look like? Kaizen and life; tweaking mornings — “What does wild success look like?” I often ask that question when I want to clarify what we want to [...]
• 2007: Gratitude — If I spend the rest of my life trying to express the immense gratitude I feel, I still don’t think I’ll [...]
• 2005: “Geek Love” — Dominique Cimafranca‘s submitting this entry to an Inquirer contest. Awww, melt melt melt… Geek Love One of the hallmarks of the stereotypical male [...]
• 2005: See, I’m not the only one weirded out by the word “co-ed” — From: rnewtonATkent.edu on a word-a-day mailing list I’m subscribed to: The most egregious example of gender-bias in English is, I think, [...]
• 2004: How to be a good team lead — http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/20/1749224&mode=flat
• 2004: Upcoming CS161 finals — One of my students wrote about the CS161 finals, and I’m posting a public apology. =) I heard that the cs161 final [...]
• 2004: ACM problem idea — Trace through two strings. Forward scanning only. List of words which must all be found in the set of two [...]
• 2003: food — We ate at the taqueria in the Greenbelt 3 food court. Pretty good food. My mom and I both had [...]
• 2003: picked up mom at pricesmart — And she has strawberries! =)
• 2003: integrative project reminder — Dr. Sarmenta reminded me that he’d like to see a draft of our paper before the deadline, and that Jam [...]
• 2003: oops, nearly forgot to leave photocopies — I nearly forgot to leave the photocopies I borrowed. Nicolette Baysa’s planning to pick them up tomorrow. Good thing I [...]
• 2003: organizing philosophy papers — I think I’ve gotten a callus on my right hand from those pullback clips. Marvelous invention, they are. If I’ve [...]
• 2003: byron uy — Ran into Byron Uy again. He’s still looking for a job. Told him Cebu might not be such a bad [...]
• 2003: th151 presentation — Just in case we’re presenting today. Fidelity is something we know from our everyday lives. We cannot separate it from faith. [...]
• 2003: planner day links — I’d like to add planner day links for previous day entry (might not be yesterday) and next day entry (might [...]
• 2003: philo notes — After philosophy class ended, a number of my classmates asked me to send my notes to them. Apparently, the fact that [...]
• 2003: foldback clips — My eternal thanks go to the inventor(s) of foldback clips. They are absolutely wonderful, and have helped me impose some sort [...]
• 2003: kfc promos — KFC has an afternoon treats promo that lets me get regular drink + regular fries for P19 (lemonade: P 15 [...]
• 2003: emacs-wiki — Emacs Wiki index needs a function to say whether a planner page should be indexed or not..
• 2003: the onset of a malady — I seem to be developing a sore throat, having overused my voice today. I hope it will clear up in time [...]
• 2003: locked out of the dorm — Pfft. Got locked out of the dorm. The guard doesn’t seem to be in the lobby, so I guess she’s walking [...]
• 2003: ph104 — We’ve signed up for orals on 2003.03.01 . The citation convention is at the Kostka photocopier.
• 2003: citation — A concise guide to Turabian-style footnotes and other forms of citation can be found at http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/within.htm and is stored in ../learn/citation.html Oh, [...]
• 2003: planner index — It should be easy to modify the WikiIndex so that it splits planner entries off and provides a link to [...]
• 2003: planner bug — Apparently, I definitely need to do a cd in the emacs-wiki-publish…
• 2003: sweet looking laptop — http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm From the site: At just 2.9 lbs, the $799 Lindows Mobile PC is a featherweight, but it weighs in with such features [...]