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On This Day...

• 2013: Drawing, blogging, and semi-retirement: Weekly review: Week ending May 31, 2013 — Good week for drawing and writing! I put together a collection of my sketchnotes, drew notes at a workshop [...]
• 2012: The Shy Connector: Thinking about the difficulties people encounter — I want to revise and expand on The Shy Connector, which seems to have become a perennial resource. I was [...]
• 2011: Hungry hungry compost and other garden updates — The compost bin chomps through all the organic material we give it. It’s nowhere near the smooth dark brown of [...]
• 2011: VMWare, Samba, Eclipse, and XDebug: Mixing a virtual Linux environment with a Microsoft Windows development environment — I’m starting the second phase of a Drupal development project, which means I get to write about all sorts of [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: week ending May 30, 2010 — From last week’s plans: Work [X] Talk to people about expertise location and other new tools [X] Talk to [...]
• 2009: Drupal in the trenches: MySQL and DELETE joins; multiple tests — Today was the first time I used a DELETE statement that joined multiple tables. I didn’t even know you could [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Lather, rinse, repeat – Cleaner development with installation profiles and Makefiles — I’m beginning to really like Drupal, a PHP-based content management system. Working with Drupal feels almost like working with Emacs [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending June 1, 2008 — Last week: Gave two presentations in person: I.B.Millennials at the Regional Technical Exchange at Sheraton Parkway, and Top 10 [IBM] Web [...]
• 2007: Global opportunities in software development: talk by Winston Damarillo: 21:37 — I attended Winston Damarillo’s lecture on global opportunities in software development today. The audience included faculty from UP, Ateneo, and DLSU, three [...]
• 2007: Party — We made it back to Manila in time for the party for IT geeks at the Museum Cafe in Greenbelt. The [...]
• 2006: Wow, what a blogger! — Greet this blogger happy 83rd birthday, folks! Way, way cool. Link from Sandy Kemsley, Helen K’s daughter. On Technorati: blogging
• 2006: Impromptu barbecue — James Iveniuk reminded me that we’d planned to have some kind of barbecue tonight. I invited Jed Smith as well because [...]
• 2006: Interesting people, interesting conversations — It is my firm belief that if I mash interesting people together, they’ll most probably have interesting conversations – and if [...]
• 2006: Blog hiccup — Sorry about the blog hiccup. I messed up my template last night. =) Random Japanese sentence: 鬼の居ぬ間に洗濯。 When the cat is away, [...]
• 2005: Wahoo! iPod Photo — So much for not being a gadget freak. =) Dad got me an iPod Photo (30GB). After I formatted it to [...]
• 2004: Testing Japanese — テスト。テスト。私はチュアです。
• 2004: Task lists — If we store all tasks in a plain text file, we can generate task lists based on that text file instead. [...]
• 2003: Funny Linus quote — Seriously, the way I did this was by using a special /sbin/loader binary with debugging hooks that I made (“dd” is [...]
• 2003: More head-mounted displays — Jennifer Pellinen, wear-hard: I found this HMD that looks pretty decent and its a decent price. http://www.vrealities.com/vr1.html
• 2003: Added TeachingReflections — Check out my TeachingReflections – stuff I learned from CS21A.
• 2003: More funky keyboards — - http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1034116,00.asp - http://www.fingerworks.com/touchstream_products.html - http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pdfs/97-148.pdf
• 2003: Funny disclaimers — http://www.they.com/disclaimer/
• 2003: OSS advocacy stats — http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
• 2003: More articles about women — “Making It on Their Merits” The U.S. high-tech sector is still predominantly male, but women have made significant progress in attaining prominence [...]