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On This Day...

• 2011: Thoughts from helping with homework — J-’s schedule is pretty packed these days: homework, high school applications, and the occasional extracurricular (karate or yearbook). We compensate [...]
• 2010: Work and life — Work and life. I want to write about this in the context of family, because two of my friends [...]
• 2009: Drawing by Seeing, and some reflections on life — Text: Drawing by Seeing (John Torreano) made me think about drawing in a completely different way. Instead of starting with [...]
• 2007: Okay, we’re in business – 5 years of my life in WordPress — After a fair bit of Emacs hacking to export all my blog entries from Planner into RSS and then import [...]
• 2006: Of independent bookstores — I read on Metroblogging Manila that Libreria is closing. Was that one of the places my mother and I visited [...]
• 2005: Quarter-life crisis update: Let’s do that virtually — Come to think of it, there’s no particular reason why the QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS sessions can’t be virtual. We’ll hold that on [...]
• 2005: Quarter-life crisis — I would like to run a series of roundtable discussions about things I and a lot of other people are figuring [...]
• 2005: Ouch. Time to reflect. — From Zen Archery, by way of another blog I read that Bloglines can’t turn up (grr…): Meanwhile, most of the people [...]
• 2005: Team IITians bags the 2005 Trend Micro P1M Tech Challenge — http://ibalita.msuiit.edu.ph/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=114 Totally awesome. =)
• 2005: Refined list of get-togethers — I will be home from Dec 19 to Jan 19. I don’t have much time. January 7 and 14 are the [...]
• 2005: Get-togethers I would like to have — Geekettes speak. Exclusively for women, all forms of geekiness accepted. What can we do to encourage extraordinary learning and success in girls? [...]
• 2004: Soloflite — One of Dominique’s friends. Good writing, nice insights. http://soloflite.blogspot.com/
• 2003: New remember.el coolness: dwim — Xref: RememberEl#3
• 2003: And of course this should let me check if I’m on the right page… — Hmmm. Am I? RememberEl
• 2003: DWIM does better thing — Now defaults to current daily page (in which case, does nothing) if not on plan page. Xrefs to plan page if [...]
• 2003: CS21B today — Frantic as had not thought of cool creative exercise before class. Settled for introduction to Eclipse and individual implementation of UML quiz [...]
• 2003: DWIM seems to work — Xref: RememberEl#2
• 2003: ARGH! — Xref: LabSetup#3
• 2003: Finding out which files are shadowing Debian emacs packages — ls *.el*|sed 's@^@/@;s/\.elc$/.el/'|xargs dlocate E-Mail from Dan Jacobson
• 2003: Watched Looney Tunes: Back in Action — Watched the movie at Rockwell with Dominique, Jerome, and Martin. Hilarious movie – little plot, but lots of references.