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On This Day...

• 2011: Stories from our trip: Furry caterpillar — From October 7: I skittered across the pool in the opposite direction from the floating divider and the furry caterpillar [...]
• 2010: Emacs, keypresses, and why keyboard combinations aren’t that scary — I came across this comment on Chris Lowis’ blog post about small-screen development in Emacs: Alex: I can’t be [...]
• 2009: Learning from failure — As a foreigner working in Canada, I have to deal with lots of paperwork. The three documents I stress out [...]
• 2009: The “Remote Presentations That Rock” reading list — Here are some of my favourite presentation books: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and DeliveryGarr Reynolds slide:ology: [...]
• 2009: New Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch! — Inspired by Dan Roam’s annotated-in-real-time presentation, I picked up a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch drawing tablet for portable use. [...]
• 2009: What to do during boring teleconference calls — What do you do during boring teleconference calls? Redesign other people’s presentations, if you’re Lesley. That’s how she keeps herself interested [...]
• 2006: Activity ideas, or Spending-time-with-Sacha-HOWTO — A good way to grow friendships (or relationships, for that matter) is to do non-work stuff together. I initially stuck this [...]
• 2006: Stuffed toy! — My mom sent me a penguin stuffed toy! =) And cute cat self-adhesive notes! And a Halloween gift box with a [...]
• 2005: Congratulations to the ACM people! — Ateneo de Manila University hosted an ACM ICPC regional competition for the first time. Notable results: Hong Kong 1st place, 8 problems. Ateneo [...]
• 2005: Daylight savings time — So… hmm… I’ll be thirteen hours away from home, right? “It’s Sunday, October 30th … Do you know what time it [...]
• 2005: Yesterday’s Halloween party — Pictures at http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/wiki/2005.10.30.php . :) It was fun!
• 2004: CRAZED By Patricia Chanco Evangelista — UPDATE: Anyone have any other information? A Web search (even news.google.com) doesn’t turn up any other articles about this Intercontinental Science Quiz [...]
• 2003: Teaching a Java-based CS1 Course in an Academically-Diverse Environment — education — http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/563340.563396 Abstract: The Texas Christian University (TCU) Computer Science Department was established in 1981. From the outset, the Department’s CS1 course has presented [...]
• 2003: Firebird / Mozilla and Gnus for mail — http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/AadityaSood Interesting snippet on how to get Gnus to be your mail client for Firebird or Mozilla. 1. Install mozex [...]
• 2003: Background tabs in Konqueror — Finally figured out how to always open tabs in the background. Uncheck Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Behavior (with the Internet icon) [...]
• 2003: Playing around with planner-search-notes — (defun planner-search-notes (regexp) "Return a buffer with all the notes returned by the query for REGEXP." (interactive "MRegexp: [...]