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On This Day...

• 2012: Trying out MindManager 2012 – Almost but not quite the right fit for me — (Click on the image for  larger version.) I love the way that mindmaps let me get lots of information down quickly [...]
• 2010: Monthly review: March 2010 — For the third year in a row, March was a flurry of presentations. I started with “The Shy Presenter” at [...]
• 2009: Passions, Strengths and Goals — I asked Joy Soria (another virtual assistant from the Philippines) to put together some career advice and stories to share [...]
• 2009: Volunteer opportunity for teachers and retired teachers in Ontario — I know Deniz from LifecampTO, and I’m all for helping newcomers with their job search. Know anyone who might be [...]
• 2009: Virtual assistance process: Calendar management with Timebridge — Thanks to Ana Conception-Macatiag for documenting this process and including screenshots! =) Setting up appointments: Log in to http://www.timebridge.com, see Accounts [...]
• 2009: Quick tips for making the most of Sametime Unyte — More and more people are turning to virtual presentations as a way to save on travel and reach a wide [...]
• 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 [...]
• 2005: Playing with fire — Told you we play with fire. Staff in a front circle Staff going around my back 猫の目は非常に光を感じやすい。 Cats’ eyes are very sensitive to [...]
• 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: 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 — Heard a kitten inside the walls between my room and the bathroom. What was that short story that had a [...]