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On This Day...

• 2011: Decision review: Battery — After several days of accidentally unplugging my battery-dead laptop (knocking away the power cord, unplugging the wrong cable, etc.), I [...]
• 2010: Large team challenges — What collaboration challenges do large teams face? Here are the key problems I often hear from people, organized in a [...]
• 2007: Lasagna — Lasagna for breakfast. Lasagna for lunch! Maybe I can even swing lasagna for dinner… Random Emacs symbol: decrease-left-margin – Command: Make [...]
• 2007: Massages — It’s really nice getting out-of-the-blue massages from W and J. Really, really nice. I could get used to this. Random Emacs symbol: [...]
• 2007: Field trip! — We went to the Ontario Science Centre last Friday. It was fun playing with the different exhibits, particularly the new Mindworks [...]
• 2007: Falling in love with words — How did I come to love words so much? I remember reading everything I could get my hands on, and clambering [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Dinner with Calum, Vanessa and Dave — Calum introduced me to Vanessa and Dave, who will be moving to Indiana this August. I regret that they’re leaving soon. [...]
• 2005: World domination — Zakame said on PLUG: Same here. Personally I was amused at the sight of them: actually, I was more interested on the [...]
• 2005: Philippine Open Source Conference 2005: possible talk on “Linux in Your Pocket”? — I couldn’t help but respond to the Philippine Open Source Conference 2005 thread on PLUG when I saw the posts mentioning [...]
• 2004: 3D modeling with voxels — While my sister surfed, I discovered that I possessed a hidden talent for three-dimensional modelling using silicate voxels. That is, I built [...]
• 2003: Aadisht Khanna and t-shirts — Aadisht Khanna’s recent W-Fillet is right. Plain T-shirts are useful. I can write trendy political messages on them (geek code alert!), advertise [...]
• 2003: Thanks to Thomas Gehrlein — planner — Thomas has been patiently helping me figure out how to become a better maintainer, with loads of useful comments, patches, and [...]
• 2003: Catastrophix updates — cat — Catastrophix the kitten is alive and well, although somewhat fishy-smelling (we’ve been feeding her solid kitten food). She still hasn’t figured out [...]
• 2003: DISCS local number 5660 5661 — The Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (http://discs.ateneo.net) can be reached at +632 426 6001 loc 5660 or 5661.
• 2003: Will I be able to compete in the ACM ICPC? — There’s a fairly large chance that I will be taking a masteral degree in Education at the Ateneo de Manila University. [...]
• 2003: Paper: A Mentor Program in CS1 — education — Amanda Miller, Judy Kay I can’t find a free online URL for this, but it’s in the ACM Digital Library. Maybe it [...]
• 2003: Paper: Laptops in the Classroom — education — Andrea Beth Campbell and Roy P. Pargas http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~pargas/projects/recentPapers/Laptops.pdf This paper is about mandatory laptop use in the classroom, but since our labs are [...]
• 2003: Paper: Engaging Students with Theory through ACM Collegiate Programming Contests — education — Nikolay V. Shilov and Kwangkeun Yi http://ropas.kaist.ac.kr/~kwang/paper/02-cacm-shyi.pdf “Training sessions are good opportunities to present students with challenging programming problems that cannot be solved [...]
• 2003: Open source advocacy in governments — http://www.egovos.org/ has some material for open source advocacy for governments. Link from Thad on penguinista@yahoogroups.com, a Slackware-centric mailing list of Filipino geeks.