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On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending July 31, 2011 — I thought I’d feel guilty about being on holiday while other people on my team – clients and IBMers in [...]
• 2011: Software and making pots — This is what software feels like. It’s squishy and floppy, and it falls over from time to time while you’re [...]
• 2010: Cool mornings — 2010-07-31 Sat 08:00 Fall doesn’t officially start until late September, but these mornings and evenings are pajama-cool, duvet-cool, [...]
• 2009: Improv 101 class 2: Scenes, objects, and environments — It takes time to build an imaginary world that other people can see, and I’m looking forward to being able [...]
• 2008: Emacs and PHP: On-the-fly syntax checking with Flymake — The dreaded white screen of nothingness usually means that I’ve misplaced a quotation mark or brace somewhere in my PHP [...]
• 2008: Kaizen: Moving time around — I recently (re)discovered that writing is much easier and more enjoyable in the early morning when I’m fresh and focused [...]
• 2006: Planning — Here’s what I need to do: I need to come up with a list of calls for papers for conferences related to [...]
• 2006: Focus — My research manager told me that I’ve been conditionally approved for VPN access, which would allow me to access IBM resources [...]
• 2006: Business development — Stayed up late chatting with Jijo Sevilla of QSR, a Philippine-based Linux solutions company. Simon Rowland had mentioned an interest [...]
• 2005: Being Filipino — Saturday night’s barbecue with Sol Laforteza was _the_ best evening I’ve had in Canada so far, and I owe so very [...]
• 2004: Software Partnership International Japan — Promoting outsourcing to the Philippines in Japan - Common framework and quality - Promoting Japanese language proficiency: Toshiba ASP to introduce employees [...]
• 2003: Mozilla — Pfft. I want all extensions to be installable by normal users. I also wish that Mozilla paid attention to http_proxy and [...]
• 2003: State of OSS in the Philippines — This paper provides an overview of the state of adoption of Open Source software in the Philippines as well as the [...]
• 2003: The Little World of Dan Camillo — Dominique Cimafranca said: Memory is a very funny thing: all of a sudden it occurred to me to look up some web [...]
• 2003: Roden’s MP3 encoder — Roden has designed an MP3 encoder – given a text file, it will convert it into an MP3 or WAV [...]