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On This Day...

• 2012: “So, what do you do?” — I still have the hardest time with introductions, even more so now that I’m doing something… different. I’m not a [...]
• 2011: Organizing my digital life — W- upgraded our file server to a RAID-1 configuration (mirroring without parity or striping) using two 1.8-terabyte disks. Now we [...]
• 2010: Career growth in a large company — I’m not counting my chickens before they hatch. But there is something really cool about exploring career growth in a large [...]
• 2009: From here to first frost — The typical first frost date in Toronto is October 6, which is 93 days away. If we allow two weeks [...]
• 2009: Cat portrait session — The cats very obligingly sat for a portrait session: From Cats From Cats No treats needed!
• 2006: Faceplant! — Day 3, accident 1. I faceplanted while going down a hill. But it was tons of fun going down that hill! [...]
• 2005: T-Shirt-First Development — Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users writes about T-Shirt First Development: how we just _love_ geek shirts. AMEN! Excuse me while [...]
• 2005: Doing Something Great — Keith over at To-Done wrote an interesting post about doing something great. I want to do Something Great. I’m crazy about helping [...]
• 2004: Ooooh, new toy! — In a fit of generosity, my parents got me a Sony Cybershot digital camera. I can take lots of pictures now! [...]
• 2004: Family bonding in the time of Google — My eldest sister Ching just texted to ask if I wanted a Gmail invite. She had a spare. I thanked her [...]
• 2004: Class reflections — - CS21A: Walked through the GuessingGame and CrystalBall exercises. It looked like everyone’s on track. Mentioned my decision to my MIS class. [...]
• 2004: Lessons learned — - Argentina Beef Loaf tastes more like vienna sausages than like SPAM. Eww. Doesn’t get nice and crisp, either. Vienna sausages [...]
• 2004: Documentary: me using Emacs? ;) — Andy Sy said: Is there a film documentary available somewhere showing you how you use Emacs? God knows I’ve tried and [...]
• 2003: Article on teaching — http://www.mb.com.ph/news.php?art=35438&sect=5&fname=YC03070235438o.txt