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On This Day...

• 2012: Capturing my sketchnotes with Camtasia Studio Pro; organizing the digital workflow — People often want to sit beside me to see how I’m drawing my sketchnotes, so I thought I’d record one [...]
• 2011: Learning how to model with Google Sketchup — We’d like to learn more about 3D modeling, so W- checked out Beginning Google SketchUp for 3D Printing (Sandeep Singh, [...]
• 2010: Experimenting with mornings — Here’s my approximate sleep data for the past week, tracked with the free “Sleep on It” app I installed [...]
• 2009: Book: Leading Out Loud — Leading Out Loud: Inspiring Change Through Authentic CommunicationsTerry Pearce, 2003 Excellent advice on being authentic. Good point starting p133 about [...]
• 2006: Quiet days — It turns out that the suite meeting isn’t tonight. Maybe Thursday. The place is so quiet. Perhaps I’m learning to need [...]
• 2006: It’s not just me — My sister once told my boyfriend that if he ever needed to find out how to love me, he could just [...]
• 2005: A day among friends — Yesterday was a day spent among close friends. Not that I knew them particularly well, but the ease at which they [...]
• 2004: New pictures up! — 2004.11.16 – 2004.11.14 – 2004.11.08 – 2004.11.03 – 2004.11.02 – 2004.10.30 – 2004.10.24 – 2004.10.23 Emacs makes all things hackable. I [...]
• 2004: emacs-wiki snippet for getting a list of images from a dired buffer — (defun sacha/emacs-wiki-marked-images-as-kill () "Return a list of images ready to be inserted into a wiki page." (interactive) [...]
• 2004: OpenACS — Work with programmers around the world on OpenACS projects. OpenACS is an open source databased-backed website development tool kit. Projects [...]
• 2004: Celsus Kintanar: 3rd place, development challenge, TopCoder — Congratulations to Celsus Kintanar for winning 3rd place and USD 2500 in the Component Development part of the TopCoder challenge. (Heh, don’t [...]
• 2004: Patrica Chanco Evangelista’s followup to the Faye story — The%20J%20Spot:%20CRAZED%2019%20November%202004%20(from%20Philstar.com) Now *that* is a beautifully written piece. I admire Patricia for her humble apologies and for courageously living through the situation [...]
• 2004: Whoops, am a little clueless about scholarship programs — I missed the deadline for the Fulbright, and have probably missed many of the deadlines for the other scholarships too. Must [...]
• 2003: Recompiling my kernel — <whistles happily>
• 2003: CS21B: Inheritance — Gave a quiz on UML class diagrams. Most people got it, although there is a little bit of confusion regarding navigability [...]
• 2003: planner.el whoops — Referred to old way of favoring future dates. Silly me. Forgot I renamed that. Tsk tsk tsk.
• 2003: Eclipse UML — Eclipse represents interfaces with the «interface» stereotype. Realization is shown with a dashed line ending in a hollow arrow, kinda like inheritance. Eclipse [...]