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On This Day...

• 2012: Making progress on my book of highlights! — I spent the weekend editing, tidying, and formatting the 5-star posts from my blog archives. I’m currently working on a [...]
• 2011: Mindful spending, experiments, and living in line with your values — A friend was thinking about splurging on an event that included an 8-course dinner for $95. He wrote, “I’d like [...]
• 2010: Thank you, David Singer — I remember reading a discussion topic about what it means to be an IBMer, and how people feel an emotional [...]
• 2009: Notes from Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM — When one of my mentors asked me if I could do a session on presentation skills for the new interns [...]
• 2008: Holding my (quality assurance) horses — Okay, I really shouldn’t be making changes to a live system, even if we’re doing the quality assurance testing and [...]
• 2006: More decisions — My recent bicycle accident enforced a somewhat slower pace of life. I found myself restless. I want to think! I want [...]
• 2006: Catching up with my del.icio.us inbox — Thanks to Gabriel Mansour for reminding me about my del.icio.us social bookmarking inbox! This is the first time I’ve checked it, [...]
• 2004: Update on wok — My parents are going to get me a wok! Wheeeeeee! <giggle> Ask and you shall receive, indeed… Can’t wait to do more [...]
• 2004: Kitchen inventory — I won’t copy this to the CookOrDie page because I’ll keep a separate updated copy there. =) - 500g ziti, cooks [...]
• 2004: Beef with Oyster Sauce — (You gain a level!) I was planning to cook the beef mexicana described on page 97 of “The Starving Students’ Cookbook”, but [...]
• 2004: Gmail invite for Eric — I’m perfectly happy with my free.net.ph account (thanks, Jijo!), but Eric Vidal’s suffering from gmail-envy. Will one of you kind souls please [...]