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On This Day...

• 2013: Towards wonderful new normals — I’ll be doing consulting for around two days a week for the rest of the year. Before I started this [...]
• 2012: Sketches: People-watching at High Park — I’m teaching myself how to draw by cheating. For example, while waiting for friends to come join me in seeing [...]
• 2011: Study group update: negative numbers, exponents, and awesomeness — W- started the kids on a review of positive and negative numbers. They got the hang of those quickly, so [...]
• 2010: Tea — One of my indulgences is hosting tea parties. I love bringing friends together for conversation. There’s something about an [...]
• 2009: Sketches: Do these look like cats to you? =) — This was also fun to make. =)
• 2007: How to use Emacs to keep track of your bibliography and notes: anatomy of an Emacs hack — Keep your records in BibTeX, which is a text-based tool for keeping track of bibliographies. BibTeX really shines when you use [...]
• 2007: Oooh! The banig is so pretty! — My mom sent me a woven mat. It’s so pretty! I’ve set it up by the side of my room. If [...]
• 2007: Book recommendation: The Ten-Minute Trainer — Bowman. 2005. The Ten-Minute Trainer. Pfeiffer. Training shouldn’t be hour-long lectures that bore people who are more used to television’s ten-minute chunks [...]
• 2007: Book recommendation: Light Their Fire — Drake, Gulman and Roberts. 2005. Light Their Fire. Dearborn: Chicago, IL. Light Their Fire shows the importance of internal marketing as a [...]
• 2006: How to wear a malong — Someone came upon my webpages while looking for ways to wear a malong, one of the traditional Filipino costumes. It’s really [...]
• 2006: Rails pub night — I had tons of fun at the Toronto Rails pub night. Met some really cool people. =) Pictures to follow. Finally [...]
• 2006: Dips — The dips Bill brought deserve their own entry. He brought taramosalata, a Greek dip of… umm… carp egg caviar. =) [...]
• 2006: Backlog: I’m feeling potlucky! — Sunday was a very culinary day. ;) After doing my chores and my laundry, I decided that a potluck lunch was [...]
• 2004: Publishing absolute URLs in RSS feeds — - ../../notebook/emacs/emacs-wiki-config.el - ../../notebook/emacs/planner-config.el (defvar sacha/emacs-wiki-use-absolute-url-flag nil "Non-nil means publish absolute URLs.") (defadvice planner-rss-add-note (around sacha/absolute-urls activate) "Publish absolute URLs." [...]
• 2004: Gnus frontend for Dashboard — Hans de Graaff wrote Lisp code to make Gnus send clue packets to Dashboard. Fascinating… I should try that for planner [...]
• 2004: Alternating rows — li:nth-child(5n+3) {font-weight: bold}
• 2004: Socializing — Kathy picked me up from YMCA and said she was doing me a favor by taking me out. I didn’t have [...]
• 2004: Aikido — I’m beginning to enjoy aikido. The moves are just so… graceful. They remind me of ballroom dancing, strangely. I think I’m [...]