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On This Day...

• 2013: Dealing with professional envy — One of the things that both rocks and sucks about the Internet is that it’s easy to find people who [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: Small business network meetup with Kristina Chau at the Toronto Reference Library — (Click on the image for a larger version.) I attended the small business network meetup at the Toronto Reference Library. The [...]
• 2012: Five things I’ve learned from five awesome years at IBM — I was going to write stories from my five years at IBM (one year as a graduate student, four as [...]
• 2011: More about getting 27″ washers and dryers down 26″ hallways — Flora writes: found your blog googling ’27″ washer dryer 26″ hallway’ and am in awe of your story about disassembling and [...]
• 2011: On presenting, anxiety, and moving forward — I have four presentations on my calendar, spread over the next two months. They’re all on topics I’ve written about: [...]
• 2010: How not to propose marriage — More correctly: How to not propose marriage During the formal meeting of the two sets of parents, my mom asked us [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending February 14, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Attend Drupal Camp Toronto organizers’ meeting, figure out task delegation Everyone was happy with the sponsorship letter [...]
• 2008: Software as a service, high tech startup :: Morph Code :: Schedule of Events — Winston Damarillo is an all-around cool guy and a serial tech entrepreneur who wants to help more people start up [...]
• 2008: BBDB: Show a phone list — When I find myself in an airport, I sometimes take a little time to say hi to a bunch of [...]
• 2007: No flights into New York today… — … and flying in tomorrow’s not going to be nearly as much fun, so I’d rather fly some other time. S’okay [...]
• 2007: At the terminal — My 6:30 AM flight to New York got cancelled because of the snow. I’ve been rebooked onto the next available flight [...]
• 2005: Valentine — Sappy overblown commercialized greeting-card holiday that it is, who cares? It’s still fun. Dominique sent me a cryptogram. =) That was cool. On [...]
• 2005: Encryption/decryption code for Dominique’s letters — Emacs Lisp code GPG-encrypted to self so that I can decrypt it just in case I need the encryption/decryption code back. First [...]
• 2005: Letters — 1 88 22 2 14 8 18 25 15 21 13 88 8 2 11 14 25 20 9 20 18 [...]
• 2004: Wonderful day today! — Had a very lazy Saturday afternoon with Diane. Wonderful. =D
• 2004: RSS feed now available! — http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/wiki/blog.rdf Please complain loudly if this doesn’t seem to work, as it’s alpha.
• 2004: Bookmarking — forcer: If I run across an interesting URL, I file it right away with some context clues. forcer: If [...]
• 2004: Hey, RSS blogging seems to work! — And it still validates, which is always a very good thing… ../../notebook/emacs/emacs-wiki/remember.el
• 2004: RSS export — A really hairy hack promises to let me do RSS export of blogged entries. It’s in rss.el right now. Warning – [...]