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On This Day...

• 2010: Reflections on PresentationCampToronto — At Tuesday’s PresentationCampToronto organized by Chris Gurney, I gave an eight-minute talk on relentlessly improving your presentation skills. This was [...]
• 2009: Drupal in the Trenches: Fighting with Views — The other developers have bought into the idea that all behavior-related changes should be in the source code. It’s the [...]
• 2009: Drupal gotchas: Never ever ever use anything less than module AND delta to specify blocks — One of the common mistakes I run into is people not specifying enough information when deleting or updating entries in [...]
• 2009: Upcoming Web 2.0 Conferences — Web 2.0 Expo – SF March 31 to April 3, 2009 (Schedule) San Francisco, CA Conference plus workshops: $1745 before March 30, $1945 [...]
• 2009: Ada Lovelace Day linkfest and wrapup — Here’s a quick wrap-up of some posts from Ada Lovelace Day: Linda Rodriguez wrote about how Ada Lovelace Day came to [...]
• 2009: Helping my parents learn more about Internet and business; any tips? — Last Sunday, my mom and I were talking about other businesses that she and my dad could explore. She’d recently [...]
• 2009: Looking for female IT role models in Toronto? — Joey de Villa (Accordion Guy) has put together a great list of some awesome Toronto women in technology. I know [...]
• 2008: Optimizing my day — Maybe there’s some truth to the advice, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and [...]
• 2007: Sunday tea and developing my personal style — You discover yourself through your choices. One of the things I like about having my own place is learning more about [...]
• 2007: Tea — I picked up another teapot and a wooden box of assorted teas at Winners this afternoon in preparation for my second [...]
• 2006: Speaking of The Miniskirt… — Lusine was surprised to find out that I’m taking my master’s in mechanical and industrial engineering. (I really should drop the “mechanical [...]
• 2006: Noodle night — One of the wonderful things about Graduate House is that the Graduate House Council organizes a lot of social events. Tonight [...]
• 2006: Where do network cards go to die? — I’ve rummaged through all of my things, and I’m certain I left my wireless network card in the Philippines. Mumble. That’s [...]
• 2004: ACM Technews: “Search Beyond Google” — From ACM Technews: Google’s enormous success with its search engine—and its apparent inability to develop a follow-up innovation momentous enough to sustain [...]
• 2004: Paolo’s first webcomic — Looks like Paolo Venegas is starting a webcomic!
• 2004: Remembering — A friend and I were thinking of papers to submit to the Loyola Schools Review. I joked, “What could I write [...]
• 2003: killer examples for computer science education — http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~alphonce/OOPSLA2002/KillerExamples/
• 2003: Computer Braille Code Reference Card — nabs-l@nfbnet.org, Wade Hemmelrick: This is a free listing of all the computer braille code symbols. Computer Braille Code Card in Grade 2 [...]
• 2003: python web solutions — python@lists.free.net.ph, Andy Sy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/WebProgramming
• 2003: Emacs test suite — Robert Anderson has some testing scripts at http://rwa.homelinux.net/emacs
• 2003: Chinese Python? — Miguel Paraz, python@lists.free.net.ph: http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/english/english.html The author claims that Python is easy to translate to Chinese. This could be useful to the Chinese-literate people [...]
• 2003: Summary of G. Polya’s “How to Solve It” — education — http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/polya.html Local copy: PolyaHowToSolveIt
• 2003: Free mailing lists — Tech mailing lists without a home might want to check out http://www.freelists.org .
• 2003: Nemeth mathematics — On the blindprogramming@yahoogroups.com mailing list, Yvon Provencher mentions the useful tutorial at http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/notenemeth.asp .
• 2003: emacs-wiki-markup-word — I use (defun emacs-wiki-markup-word ()) to squelch all the bad markup I’m getting lately.
• 2003: equals in URLs and emacs-wiki.el — I suspect that URLs need to be verbatim; stray equal signs and underscores can be their undoing! Maybe I should just [...]
• 2003: solition paper — Cross-reference: CoastLog#1
• 2003: magicpoint — Chris Beggy writes in with another tip (thanks!). Chris thinks that Magicpoint is an excellent PowerPoint replacement. I like Magicpoint’s text-based presentation files [...]
• 2003: pdf presentations — On debian-user@lists.debian.org, David Z Maze thinks Prosper is great for making PDF presentations from LaTeX. xpdf -fullscreen -papercolor black to actually run [...]