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On This Day...

• 2013: Identifying my reactions to stress — One of the topics we discussed at last week’s Less Wrong Toronto meetup was the fight-or-flight response and reactions to [...]
• 2013: Hacking my way around networking — I like some events but not others. I like events with interesting presentations, particularly if they’re short; I take notes. [...]
• 2012: Taking up hobbies again: photography and gardening — The stereotype of an entrepreneur is someone who obsesses about business at all hours of the day. It’s good for [...]
• 2011: Cats: 0, toilet paper monster: 1; also, ArtRage and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro — One time when I came home, W- showed me the picture he took of a toilet paper trail going to [...]
• 2010: Welcome to IBM! Advice for other newcomers like me — One of my mentees wanted to know what books I’d recommend for someone new to the business world. I thought [...]
• 2009: Improving my talk management process — Now that I’m reasonably happy with managing my calendar with a combination of virtual assistance and tools like TimeBridge, I’d [...]
• 2007: Steadycam — Yesterday, Wayne helped Quinn build a steadycam for her film projects. They picked up some parts from the hardware store and [...]
• 2007: Tea party — I had my first tea party at 666 today. I really enjoyed having people over for tea and conversation! I served roiboos [...]
• 2007: Mmm… — Homemade shrimp dumplings with chili garlic sauce in wonton noodle soup – chicken broth with leafy vegetables, spring onions, and just [...]
• 2006: Visited a friend — One of my friends is in the hospital. Remembering how bad hospital food is, I brought him a couple of sandwiches [...]
• 2006: Upon reflection — A good day of work at IBM and some time to reflect have left me with a clearer perspective. I think [...]
• 2006: Skule Night — Bill invited me to Skule Night, a comic production that’s become a yearly tradition among engineering students. I thought it was hilarious, [...]
• 2006: End-of-class tango milonga on Monday — Announcement from Emily: This Monday is our end-of-class Milonga! Dress will be semi-formal — so here’s your chance to take a break [...]
• 2005: Tanaga: Siopao — My first tanaga. Please help me fix my Tagalog; I might’ve gotten some of the nuances wrong. The poem below is [...]
• 2005: Kodak Philippines: send pictures through the Net — http://www.kodakexpress.com.ph/ph/ In response to Michael Cheney’s search for a service that’ll let him upload photos and have them printed out by someone [...]
• 2004: Oooh, subvocalization — From Slashdot: alex_guy_CA writes “Yahoo News has a story about technology that comes close to reading thoughts not yet spoken, by analyzing [...]
• 2004: Executive board — Escañan, Ealden Esto (43) II BS MIS Lihan, Marc (40) II BS CS Gonzales, Vanessa (39) II BS CS Sta. Maria, Judd (36) III BS CS Rodriguez, Adrian [...]
• 2004: New Muse keyword: :osuffix — If you derive one file from another produced by Muse (ex: PDF from LaTeX from Muse), then use :suffix to specify [...]
• 2004: More thoughts about my research interest — I _would_ very much like a text-based interface that allowed me to easily navigate through all of the data in my [...]
• 2004: Howm — http://howm.sourceforge.jp/ Funky hyperlinking in all files. See if I can steal ideas from this…
• 2004: Summarization resources by Stephen Wan — http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan/summarization/index.html
• 2004: CompSAt meeting — IT Forum - documentation of what happened - videos of all the sessions - point person for IT forum - hosting third national e-learning [...]
• 2003: twig is wonderful! — I’ll use twig for the webmail interface. We’re almost good to go!
• 2003: horde2 giving me trouble — I have no idea why the login refuses to do anything. It just sits there. Perhaps it’s because it’s trying to [...]
• 2003: consider PlannerMode to XML — Some thoughts have been added to the PlannerMode wikinode on parsing it as a tree, and transforming it to XML.
• 2003: rss feeds — I need to understand precisely what rss feeds are for, and why I should get around to publishing at least [...]
• 2003: ion window manager — Ion’s pretty okay, but you need to tweak the default configuration a bit. More info in the IonWindowManager node
• 2003: imap server correctly installed — but I’m having problems with horde2 – I can’t seem to log in…
• 2003: ack! misquoted! — The article written by Rizal Raoul Reyes in the 2003.03.18 issue of Today is okay, except for one factual error. My [...]
• 2003: emacs-wiki-edit-link-at-point — emacs-wiki-edit-link-at-point works again. It can be found in ../emacs/emacs-wiki-config.el
• 2003: remind.el — zeDek from #emacs needs info on PlannerAndRemind, so I guess it’s time to make a wikinode about it.
• 2003: songs — Started putting together a SongLyrics wiki node for the songs I like singing.
• 2003: imapd howto — http://www.wienand.org/files/debian_imap.html also looks useful.
• 2003: imapd howto — http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/ looks useful. Unfortunately, my aunt wants to get on the Internet so that she can chat, so I can’t [...]
• 2003: uw-imapd and horde — I’m still getting Notice: Certificate failure for localhost: self signed certificate: /C=PH/ST=Metro Manila/L=Makati/O=Adphoto, Inc./CN=192.168.1.41/Email=sacha@localhost (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0 – [...]
• 2003: Evolution of an Emacs user — reflection, linux — Like almost all newbies, I started out with pico, the editor that comes with pine. pico was friendly. pico was easy [...]