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On This Day...

• 2011: Getting a grip on a large database migration — Michael is working on migrating a custom website with hundreds of database tables to Drupal, and he wanted to know [...]
• 2010: Thinking about dinner parties — The Toronto Public Library had “Julie & Julia”, so we watched it. (A movie about cooking! Of course.) I smiled [...]
• 2009: The fullness of days — “How are you?” asked a client after the Canada Day holiday. “Fantastic!” I replied. She was surprised by that. Perhaps she expected [...]
• 2008: Awesome, I’ve been quoted in Portuguese! — Todas as faces da colaboração? O poder do indivíduo já era. Experiências com colaboração e ferramentas sociais em grandes companhias, como [...]
• 2007: Flew a kite today — We enjoyed a long weekend because of Canada Day, so we had enough leisure time to make a kite out of [...]
• 2006: On programming as a career — Raj Shekhar reminded me that software development is a career too, and that there are software companies that use exciting [...]
• 2006: Going from pre-paid to post-paid — I want to keep in touch with enough people now that the limits on my phone are Rather Annoying. I would [...]
• 2006: Goals — I want to be able to spend my days reading, learning, and trying things out. I want to be able to [...]
• 2005: The changing face of Katipunan — My sister had an appointment in the Katipunan area today. She dragged me along because she wanted to do a market [...]
• 2005: Cleverer and cleverer — My mom called me in a panic. “I just got this message from info AT adphoto.com.ph saying that my e-mail account [...]
• 2004: STUDYING FOR THE BAR — 55er — “Could you help me analyze this?” “Give me that.” Pages flipped. “The bar’s tomorrow and you’re still having problems? You’d be so [...]
• 2004: Zaurus accessibility — I know someone who has one, and has been using it. But his immmediate target is people with intellectual disabilities (he’s [...]
• 2003: Questia — http://www.questia.com, “The World’s Largest Online Library” I really want a subscription to this. It’s USD 119.95 per year, so (* 54 119.95), [...]
• 2003: “Hairy Truth About Computer Images” — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Ming C. Lin’s research has helped advance computer graphics technology and facilitate more lifelike [...]