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On This Day...

• 2012: Organizing resources for Quantified Self Toronto — Quantified Self Toronto is a lively meetup around self-tracking and life experimentation. I like the group, and I pick up [...]
• 2011: Get More Value from Blogging, part V: Communication Matters — Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging on March 3, 2011 [...]
• 2011: Dealing with intimidating projects — I’m working on my first big IBM project, something that goes beyond Perl scripts and Drupal websites. My manager thinks [...]
• 2010: Monthly review: February 2010 — My first full month back in Canada this year was packed with goodness. I dove into interesting challenges at work, [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending February 28, 2010 — Plans from last week: Work [X] Conduct IBVA interviews (eep!) [X] Finalize preparations for Idea Lab [/] Create [...]
• 2010: The Shy Presenter: Why conventional advice on learning public speaking sucks, and how to really get started — Want to get started in public speaking? There are thousands of books and blogs and classes with advice. To save you [...]
• 2009: 25 Tips for Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment: pre-session notes — When I beta-tested this talk with an IBM audience, I realized that there was no way in heck I could [...]
• 2009: Cookie recipe: Oatmeal (chocolate chip/raisin) cookies — This recipe is based on the Joy of Cooking Quick Oatmeal Cookies recipe (1st edition), but modified to make chewier [...]
• 2009: Reality check! Things are awesome — Dan Pink shares this reality check from the comedian Louis CK: It’s easy to take progress for granted. Amazing things become [...]
• 2009: Weekly report: week ending March 1, 2009 — From last week: Clean up source code and get it ready for a week’s absence. Passes all the unit tests, hooray! Get [...]
• 2007: Wish my parents were here… — My mom would be so fun company while decorating, and my dad would probably try to buy everything in the shop. [...]
• 2007: Furniture decisions — After much reflection on what I want to do and how I want to go about it, I’ve decided to go [...]
• 2007: OMG, found my sofa — Bean bag sofas that turn into beds! That so rocks. That would be *perfect.* Random Emacs symbol: check-parens – Command: Check for [...]
• 2007: Freezing rain — Freezing rain was forecast for this afternoon. I made it all the way out to IBM, but upon hearing from Quinn [...]
• 2007: All of my books are once again balanced… — After a little bit of a struggle getting my ledger to perfectly match the financial accounts kept by the school, I’ve [...]
• 2006: From PLUG: Open source-oriented courseware launched — Iloilo City — A curriculum which incorporates Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is now available for schools offering Computer Science (CS), [...]
• 2006: Vegetable fritatta — New things: beets, fritatta. Level up! Today I had my first beet. It reminded me of baby corn, which I also like [...]
• 2005: Accomplishment report for 2005.03.01 — Confirmed Globe DSL SMTP server Found webmail.glinesnx.com.ph written on DSL box. Sent and received test e-mail. Confirmed with DSL tech support and Ben. Next [...]
• 2004: Gary Vaughan’s blog — http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk/MyJournal.html#categoryemacs13 He has a nice Slashdot-style blog. To do something like this, I would need to define the following behavior: - remember.el [...]
• 2004: ERC pseudo-AI assisted IRC help — Hmm. That gives me another nifty ERC idea - if we annotate BBDB records with timezones, we should [...]
• 2004: Emacs function of the day: rx — Translate a regular expression REGEXP in sexp form to a regexp string. See also `rx-to-string’ for how to do such a [...]
• 2004: On programming fundamentals — Jino Noel wrote: 2004-01-30 15:42 Programming fundamentals Everytime a programming exercise or project comes up I hear [...]
• 2004: Bit’s blog — 01100010 01101001 01110100