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On This Day...

• 2013: Emacs, drawing, and blogging: Week ending May 17, 2013 — I spent four hours on Friday drawing this beginners’ one-page guide to Emacs, and people really liked it. =) It’ll [...]
• 2012: Taking stock of the way I take notes — One of my friends was surprised that I use both Evernote and Microsoft OneNote. Many people are fervently in love [...]
• 2011: Ordered a Kindle with free 3G — After much consideration (and you know how I analyze my decisions), I ordered the 6″ Kindle with free 3G and [...]
• 2010: Custom fields in Lotus Notes / Domino? You may need to set the SUMMARY field flag — It took me a few hours to figure out that I needed the SUMMARY field flag, so I thought I’d [...]
• 2008: But how do you know what to draw? — But how do you know what to draw? You don’t know until you start drawing.
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending May 18 — Wow. What a week. Every week helps me understand a little more about life and what I love to do, [...]
• 2007: Technical interview — I’m going for a technical interview with IBM Global Business Services later. I’ve written up a technical resume, and I’m relieved [...]
• 2007: Events in the Philippines? — I’m going to be in the Philippines for two weeks starting Monday, and I’d love to find out what events or [...]
• 2006: Video sharing — Now I need to figure out how to get all this data off my system. I should share my videos [...]
• 2006: Finding geeks — I don’t know why people complain about not being able to find talent. ;) I run across so many interesting people [...]
• 2006: Bestest research lab evar — My research supervisor and my labmates are totally awesome. They listened to me freak out about impending doom and told me [...]
• 2006: I am so dead — My mind’s just blanking out. There’s no way I’m going to finish a credible draft of this paper within the next [...]
• 2006: Must not panic — I have a few hours to read tons of papers on innovation diffusion, social network analysis, and other fun stuff. Ack. [...]
• 2006: Working at the lab versus working at home — It’s drizzling and gray outside, which makes staying here and working on my paper more attractive than trekking over to the [...]
• 2006: Research paper cramming — My research supervisor has just strongly hinted that it would be a good idea to get some kind of draft in [...]
• 2006: Why I don’t have to make my website pretty — Feedburner statistics show that out of 225 blog readers in the past 24 hours, only 12 of them actually visit [...]
• 2006: Woohoo! Free Skype to US and Canada! — As part of a research study for Bell Canada, I get free VOIP calls to US and Canada. However, that [...]
• 2006: Web alerts, pubsub, and other cool tools — One of the coolest things about blogs is that they can get indexed almost immediately after they’re posted. Services such as [...]
• 2006: Traditional clothes — I like wearing outfits inspired by traditional Filipino costumes. I love wearing my malongs, for example. I want more Filipina flair! =) On [...]
• 2006: Awww… — =) I’ll hack my T-shirts but not my hair or skin – no bleaching or dyeing or tattooing or whatever. ]] Random Japanese [...]
• 2006: Barcamp explained — Joey de Villa has an excellent blog post explaining BarCamp. Check it out. On Technorati: barcamp Random Japanese sentence: 私は犬の方が猫より好きです。なぜなら、前者の方が後者より忠実ですから。 I like dogs [...]
• 2006: Thunderstorm — Squishing through the thunderstorm in my soaked red sneakers, hearing droplets drum the samba on my umbrella, feeling the humid air [...]
• 2006: Moleskine — I gave away a Moleskine today to Gabriel Mansour, one of the students I’d met at Mesh. He’s been enthusiastically going [...]
• 2005: Task management with Emacs: Text files — With the wealth of code available for Emacs and the ease of customization it provides, you’re certain to find a task [...]
• 2004: Words to review for the GRE — chary cautious wary cloture closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting coeval of the same period coexisting countervail counterbalance desuetude cessation of use disuse edacious voracious devouring encomium warm or [...]
• 2004: My schedule now — M CS21A-B 8:30 9:30 F-227 (lecture) M CS110-A 10:30 |11:30 CTC215 M CS21A-G 11:30 |12:30 F-228 (mis) M CS139.3 1:30 4:30 W CS21A-B 8:30 9:30 F-227 (lecture) W CS110-A 10:30 |11:30 CTC215 W CS21A-G 11:30 |12:30 F-228 (mis) W CS139.3 1:30 2:30 . F CS21A-B 7:30 9:30 F-227 (lab) F CS110-A 10:30 |11:30 CTC215 F CS21A-G 11:30 |12:30 F-228 (mis) F CS139.3 1:30 2:30 . F CS21A-A 2:30 4:30 F-227 (lab for Dr. Sarmenta) T CS110-B 7:30 9:00 F-227 H CS110-B 7:30 9:00 F-227 I’m trying to see [...]
• 2004: Thoughts on natural language processing and possible research — Hmm, needs more thought. Wearable computing application: memory augmentation (personal information management, elderly) problems facing wearable computing (re information extraction/retrieval): - SPEECH-DRIVEN IMPLICIT QUERIES. A [...]
• 2004: Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” — Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. I don’t understand most of this yet. Haraway_CyborgManifesto.html