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On This Day...

• 2011: Decision review: Lenovo X220 tablet PC (with graphs!) — Mel Chua asked about my experience with tablets, so I thought I’d look at the results of getting a Lenovo [...]
• 2010: Smiling —
• 2009: WordPress: Older posts, newer posts — I always get confused by “Previous page” and “Next page” on WordPress blogs. After only a little struggling, I finally [...]
• 2009: Cambridge stories from the past and future — I’m sitting at gate B6 at the Pearson Airport in Toronto, waiting for my flight to Boston. In a few hours, [...]
• 2008: Upcoming webcasts on social networking, Gen Y — Here are some free upcoming webcasts I’m planning to attend: Brazen Careerist: Capturing the Hearts and Minds of Young Talent through [...]
• 2005: You gotta love these teaching assistantship ads — ESC102H1 — Engineering Science Praxis II DO YOU BELIEVE ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING? Active Surplus is the coolest store in [...]
• 2005: Snow — Winter. Argh. Let me say that again. ARGH. On the plus side, I remembered to wear a hat today. I’ll take pictures later, when [...]
• 2004: Google Scholar — http://scholar.google.com – Google for academic papers I love Google.
• 2004: From Rommel Feria: LPI Certification Exam — We will be having the first paper-based LPI Level 1 Certification Exams this December. There will be 30 slots available. The [...]
• 2004: More about English: BBC mp3s — Chris Lowis sent this tip: Maybe radio 4 would interest you : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ They have on-line broadcasts, and of all the BBC radio [...]
• 2004: Rained in — Don’t have an umbrella with me, so I’ll stay at the office for another half-hour or so doing my mail.
• 2004: plug-misc and Gnus scoring — I’ve started automatically scoring down threads and authors in plug-misc, as I’m not really into corny forwarded jokes or me-toos. They’re not [...]
• 2004: Stuff to stop mispronouncing — CATegorize, for one. I keep pronouncing it as caTEgorize. There are probably lots of Filipino English things I have to fix [...]
• 2003: Lessons from work — According to JM Ibanez: 1) Always bring a jacket, or at least wear something warm. I got one of the worst cubicles [...]
• 2003: CS161 yesterday (2003.11.17) — Managed to lecture for the entire hour. Went through slide set 1. Come to think of it, lecture was probably supposed [...]
• 2003: CS21A yesterday (2003.11.17) — Formally explained what we were doing in BlueJ. Defined class, object, attribute, and method. As was asked nicely, also talked about iteration [...]
• 2003: CookOrDie: Day 6 — Brought leftovers from The Barn. Reason that as needed to use microwave in order to reheat (pesto+chicken pasta and mixed kebabs), food [...]
• 2003: Basic UML — Prepared some Rather Nice slides for a basic introduction to UML. Followed the format from Martin’s training kit for the objectives [...]
• 2003: Japanese blog — http://www.sssg.org/blog/koyama/