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On This Day...

• 2012: Poach my assistants, they’re awesome — Most companies try to be hush-hush about good people. That makes sense. You don’t want to train people and then [...]
• 2011: Geek tidbits: Postfix configuration for development and testing — From November: We got the mail information for our Rails site, so I reconfigured the mail server. We’re doing a lot [...]
• 2010: Taho — From Sunday: When I was growing up, we often had taho for breakfast. Manila had many magtataho who roamed the streets [...]
• 2009: Lotus Connections Communities topics+replies feeds to OPML — Keeping track of discussions in Lotus Connections Communities can be difficult, so I thought I’d use a feed reader to [...]
• 2009: Behind the scenes: Livin’ la Vida Emacs — In October 2006, I gave a short presentation on Livin’ la Vida Emacs (or the Emacs editor as a way [...]
• 2008: Crazy business idea: videoconferencing event/party spaces =) — Yes, videoconferencing should be the kind of thing anyone can get working at home, but technical glitches often come up. I [...]
• 2008: Library shortcuts — Matt Price e-mailed me about this wonderful piece of wizardry he added to YubNub (which is kinda like a command [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending Dec 7 — Last week: Work: Totally rocked with Drupal and Linux. =) Work: Set up next two conference calls for Web 2.0 [...]
• 2008: The benefits of writing — Jeff Muzzerall sent me this paper on the Benefits of Writing: Health and Productivity. The paper summarizes other research showing, [...]
• 2008: Let’s talk about passion — Of all the small-talk questions people usually ask, the one I avoid asking is “What do you do?” I’m not [...]
• 2006: Movies That Motivate — Kevin McIntosh just linked me up with an interesting motivational speaker named Emmanuel Lopez who’s starting a movie / networking series [...]
• 2005: The Power of the Human Spirit — Irine Yu pointed me to the speech delivered by Intel Excellence in Teaching awardee Dr. Josette Biyo: When your job becomes [...]
• 2005: December 6: Ecole Polytechnique massacre — Sixteen years ago, 14 women were massacred by a man who hated feminists. Most were engineering students who had the [...]
• 2005: Ateneo team to compete in ACM ICPC World Finals! — From Didith’s blog: The top Atenean team will compete in the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition World Finals! Way cool. =) Inggit! ;)
• 2004: On being an assembly-line programmer — It’s recruitment time in the Philippines again, and companies in search of fresh programming talent are hitting the colleges to chat [...]
• 2003: Two-minute mysteries — http://www.sd22.bc.ca/silverstar/writing/mysteries/mysteries.html an archive of the sort of thing you’re looking for, http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/schools/olp/2mmclub/solve.htm “The 2-minute mystery writing club” I didn’t browse through the [...]
• 2003: enable1.txt — http://www.puzzlers.org/wordlists/dictinfo.php E-Mail from Pedro Graca
• 2003: Tutorial: Writing a new Emacs mode — http://two-wugs.net/emacs/mode-tutorial.html
• 2003: Went out with Diane =) — Hot chocolate at Seattle’s Best – excellent chocolate, much better than Starbucks. Watched fireworks, too. Perfect date, ‘cept (a) she’s my girl [...]
• 2003: Testing 1 2 3 — 4 5 6 7 8 9 PlannerMode
• 2003: Applying learning style theory to college education — http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Secondtier.html TeachingIdeas
• 2003: Bluepoint road tour — Last Friday (December 5, 2003), I joined the Bluepoint Road Tour to talk about Linux in the academe (SXI). I shared my experiences [...]
• 2003: Note guids — Notes should probably have GUIDs so that I can do update-notes as well. However, note updating does not really make sense [...]
• 2003: Testing remember.el — I seem to have broken something recently.
• 2003: Numbering on a per-page level — I wonder if setting planner-reverse-chronological-notes as a file-local variable makes sense. I can’t think of a reason to use it, though… PlannerMode
• 2003: Gerald Generoso’s comment on ComputerScienceEducationResearch — good karma —