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On This Day...

• 2011: Quantified Awesome: Data from waking up 3 hours earlier than normal — I’ve been taking advantage of jetlag to wake up earlier than usual. I go to bed when I’m tired and [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending October 31, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Drupal: Work on Drupal project [X] Idea Labs: Help compile Idea [...]
• 2009: Grocery round-up: Toronto — We shop according to what’s on sale at the supermarket so that we can stock up on staples and fill [...]
• 2009: Flowcharts and drawing — J-’s social studies lesson included two flowcharts. W- asked if the flowcharts had diamonds indicating conditionals. Apparently not, so we [...]
• 2007: Halloween — I enjoyed this year’s Halloween more than the first two I’d spent in Canada. I had spent both previous Halloweens in [...]
• 2006: The programming competitions continue… — Didith Rodrigo’s blog post about Ateneo’s performance in the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition reminded me that the first-years I taught [...]
• 2006: Remembering to breathe — One of the things about always being on, always working on stuff, is that it’s sometimes hard to remember to just [...]
• 2005: Planner Tip #2: Streamline undated tasks — One of the coolest things about Planner is the way you can tweak it to fit the way you think. Customizing [...]
• 2004: Debugging people — Of course I would. If I knew the right way to say it. ::sighs:: I’m a computer geek. <grin> I’m used [...]
• 2004: Open Source Developer Contest – Sponsored by IBM — Hi, I am attempting to let some of the larger US-based Linux User Groups know about a contest we are sponsoring. [...]
• 2004: Great valedictory speech — In Filipino, though. Find a friend who can translate it for you. (Semi-liberal translation follows after. Please don’t laugh.) Probably De La [...]
• 2004: Convenience — A 5-meter LAN cable is just long enough for me to bring my computer into the bathroom. Mwahaha!
• 2004: Stuff to check out — Ken Loach. “He’s got amazing movies.” “You’re showing off.” Land and Freedom. Ladybird, ladybird. (Not sure.) And it’s either one ladybird or two [...]
• 2004: Odd thing — Turned on TV out of impulse. Checked out movies. Japanese subtitles. What’s this? A sidecar? Jeeps? Passersby standing around and looking at the camera? Turned [...]
• 2003: The Lord of the Editors — or One Emacs to Rule Them All by Raffael Cavallaro Knuth’s Tex for the Math-kings of sigma, and pi,     Unix vim for the [...]
• 2003: Reflection on 2003.10.30 — Hacked on planner.el and planner-id.el. Practically rewrote planner-id.el, in fact, as I wanted to use an alist of data instead. Have gotten [...]