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Took the TOEFL

Am still somewhat annoyed that I got one of the listening questions
wrong. Max score 297. We’ll see what my actual score is in two to
three weeks.

Main part of test easy. Plenty of time, really. Finished entire test
in two hours. Took all 30 minutes for the essay part.

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On This Day...

  • 2012: Starting up my delegation experiments again: data entry from receipts — We decided to skip the community-based and culture program this season, and instead buy the vegetables ourselves. I wanted to [...]
  • 2011: Experimenting with standing desks — (From May 12) People in IT tend to spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer. Unfortunately, [...]
  • 2010: Getting the hang of gardening — I’m starting to figure out what works for me in terms of gardening. I start seeds indoors on a seed [...]
  • 2009: More gardening — We spent most of this weekend thinking about and working on our garden. Laura’s going to think of what we [...]
  • 2006: More thoughts about what I want to do with my life — Here’s a sketch of what I want to do: I want to help people connect with people through social software. That’s a [...]
  • 2006: Hooray for people who know how to cook! — How to not burn pancakes, from Mom: use a teflon pan. heat pan. put very very little oil on the pan. [...]
  • 2006: Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship — From: “Santamaria, Samuel” SSantamaria AT aicpa.org Here’s another victory we can be proud of. Tell your friends about it. A team of [...]
  • 2006: Blogly angst — Hands, a sketch by Dominique Cimafranca Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we think it should, but then that could be [...]
  • 2006: Microsoft Word in schools — Didith Rodrigo, the chair of my alma mater’s computer science department, seems to be getting a bit frustrated with people [...]
  • 2006: More thoughts about social computing — Come to think of it, the hardest and most interesting part won’t be figuring out how the technology works. That [...]
  • 2006: Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship — From the Kagay-anon Linux Users’ Group mailing list: sa mga hilig ug web/2 one page lang na guide; gamit kaayo.. http://www.vipedio.com/roman/blog/20culture_full.html sa mga hackers [...]
  • 2006: Aha! — Thanks to a conversation earlier about web development and careers, I think I’ve figured out a little more about what I [...]
  • 2006: Renaissance dance performance — Toronto Coranto – the renaissance dance group that I got drafted into - performed for a class on Love and the [...]
  • 2006: Breakfast — When Steve called me up on my cellphone at around 8:00 and said only “Help!”, I panicked and nearly fell off [...]
  • 2004: Acoustic cryptanalysis for possible cryptographic attacks — Acoustic cryptanalysis – http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ Link sent by Carlos Sia
  • 2004: Research ideas — Blog visualizer It is useful to see how blog entries and other chronologically arranged items like e-mail cluster around certain topics over [...]

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