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On This Day...

• 2012: Business adventures: Accounting — One of the tough but crucial lessons in growing a business is learning when to part ways. I ended one [...]
• 2011: Decision review: Switching from Rackspace Cloud to Linode — Update from 2013-05-10: Linode doubled what you get in each plan, so now I have a 1.5GB VPS for $30/month. Whee! [...]
• 2010: Notes from Quantified Self Toronto, October 27, 2010 — Bits from the meetup: automated tracking of computer activity, CureTogether.com for aggregated health self-reporting of conditions and treatments, and the [...]
• 2009: Big dreams and small dreams can coexist — On the way home from work yesterday, I realized that big dreams and small dreams can co-exist. I’ve struggled with that [...]
• 2007: Weekly review 2007.10.21 – 2007.10.28 — Summary – In terms of my goals from last week: Organize information Haven’t rearranged our group Activity yet. Plan external blog Brainstormed names. Now [...]
• 2007: Org: Changing the task states — I find it useful to keep track of which tasks I’ve started. Adding the following line to the start of my [...]
• 2007: Clocking work time under Planner — Planner uses timeclock.el, which is part of GNU Emacs. To make sure that all of the relevant libraries are loaded when [...]
• 2007: Clocking work time under Org — Whether you submit detailed timesheets to clients or not, it’s a good idea to estimate and keep track of the time [...]
• 2005: Testing… testing… is the mic on? — If this works, then I’ve successfully gotten planner-rss to work. Like before it is an idiosyncratic mess of duct tape and [...]
• 2004: CRAZED By Patricia Chanco Evangelista — The Philippine STAR 10/22/2004 Interesting article about good causes. (Or interesting exposition of how we’re so used to being able to dig [...]
• 2004: SAY NO TO SOFTWARE PIRACY — http://www.mb.com.ph/SCTY2004102421147.html SAY NO TO SOFTWARE PIRACY By Ethel Timbol Consumers Post Check it out. Nice article. Kudos to Alex Timbol for helping his mom. [...]
• 2003: Notes on conference — Again, let me tell you stories from this one. If you went to the National Conference on IT Education (NCITE 2003), [...]
• 2003: Notes on rest and recreation — Instead of breathlessly enumerating all the different things we saw today, let me tell you a story from our rest and [...]
• 2003: Things to bring for resta nd recreation — Personal effects such as swimsuits, towels, hats, toiletries, medicine, golf clubs if you wish to play golf and tennis/squash rackets/balls for tennis/squash [...]