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On This Day...

• 2012: Happy monthsary to me! — One month ago, I submitted the paperwork for my very own company. I talked to mentors, set up my accounts [...]
• 2011: Learning more about Websphere and web service development — So I finally figured out what was wrong with the way I was trying to generate my web services for [...]
• 2011: Pirate kitties — One of the best things about drawing is that you can draw things that don’t exist. Somehow your world splits [...]
• 2010: Learning from interviews — David Ing (one of my mentors) thought it would be a good idea to help me learn not only facilitation [...]
• 2009: Five reasons why I’m experimenting with outsourcing to virtual assistants — My experiments with outsourcing amuse some people and raise questions for others. It’s difficult for most people (including me!) to [...]
• 2006: Sick today — Not enough sleep and not enough water and certain other factors that occur on a semi-regular basis meant I was really, [...]
• 2005: Business book: Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant — I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant, another book in his Rich Dad, Poor Dad series. While I’m generally not [...]
• 2004: Buzzword for the day: named entity extraction — Apparently, it’s an established research problem…
• 2004: University of New South Wales: Concepcion S. Wilson — http://www2.sistm.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=%7BE8874FF7-0000-00F9-7CBA-C81A815EDE12%7D:-1115785899 - Information retrieval: Automatic indexing and classification of full-text documents - http://www.kmrg.unsw.edu.au/
• 2004: Computer science resources — - Computer Science Teaching Center, http://www.cstc.org - Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library, http://www.citidel.org - National Science Digital Library, http://www.nsdl.org
• 2004: Problem with footnote.el and auctex — From Rainer Volz: In case anybody has the same problem, I (probably) found the source and a workaround. The error “Symbol’s function definition [...]
• 2003: scrabble — Well, off to play Scrabble by myself. Or something.
• 2003: PyMacs — On #emacs today: solaries: is it still advantageous to learn elisp? I tried to do it, but if you always compare [...]
• 2003: thoughts for Ateneo — What can I give back to an institution that has supported me, formed me, taught me, and challenged me to realize [...]
• 2003: benefactor — Ateneo Scholarship Foundation Escaler Hall, 3:30 Mass, followed by the program. Semi-formal. Bring a small gift.
• 2003: [[bbdb://eric.vidal][eric]]’s siblings — “Jello’s the jock, Jove’s the lawyer. Joyce does architecture, Jaclyn does psych. And I’m Jay-jay.”
• 2003: [[bbdb://aadisht][aadisht khanna]] — Aadisht, you are for some inexplicable reason the top search query that leads to my site, according to http://richip.dhs.org/usage/usage_200303.html . [...]
• 2003: QuickBooks, cost estimates and job orders — Hmm. I got fairly distracted back there. Started reading up on QuickBooks and trying to figure out how I can work [...]
• 2003: swsusp still not working — Must find out how to debug…
• 2003: nintendo generation — Diane mentions the Nintendo Generation. Should be interesting – teaching tips?
• 2003: lilo.conf and make-kpkg — Note: Do not edit /etc/lilo.conf, make the Linux image something else (/boot/bzImage instead of /vmlinuz) and still expect a kernel-image [...]
• 2003: TrackBack — I should also think about trackbacks or some other way to let people who link to me let me know [...]
• 2003: lazyweb – many eyes make features shallow — “If you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about.” http://iawiki.net/LazyWeb How did I get there? Google:RSS+blog+etiquette (such a [...]
• 2003: RSS publishing with remember.el — - I need to have a “template”, because I’m just going to insert text. - I need to update the timestamp [...]
• 2003: publishing my journal as an RSS feed — chrisb wrote in with a tip about Hugo’s http://larve.net/people/hugo/2003/scratchpad/RssForEmacsWiki.html . emacs-wiki-rss.el makes very nice lists of the wiki pages I have, but I [...]