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On This Day...

• 2012: Emacs Org: Display a subset of tasks by context — I wanted to get a quick preview of my top three tasks by context. Since org-tags-view didn’t seem to have a [...]
• 2011: Figuring out my CSS workflow — Yesterday’s coding session with CSS was fantastic. I used WinWarden to make my browser translucent, and I overlaid it on [...]
• 2010: Thinking about housework — I’ve been thinking about the ideas in the book “168 Hours”, which strongly recommends personal outsourcing as a way of [...]
• 2009: What will you stop doing? — New Year’s Day is just a day, a chronological convention. The long holiday season is a good time to reflect [...]
• 2008: Websites that write websites — “So nat’ralists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey, [...]
• 2006: I give up on WPA and WPC11! — After several days of compiling and recompiling kernels and tracking down HOWTOs and fiddling with configuration files, I officially give up on [...]
• 2005: The five-year journal — Check out Cool Tools: The 5 Year Journal for a journal that promotes seredipitous discovery and reflection. =) Maybe I [...]
• 2005: Fire — There was a big fire right next to our house. We all got out safely, including the pets. Fire In the meantime, [...]
• 2004: More open source work — sachac: you'd be remiss if you don't include pmana's work. ;) and of course, iptraf is by a pinoy.
• 2004: And the rest of the year passed by in a blur — August Turned 21. Threw birthday party/send-off party. Didn’t blog much; was very busy. September, 2004.10.01 Japanese language studies. Lots of lectures blogged. November Training at [...]
• 2004: July — 7/21 Made it to the shortlist of the AOTS program, then 7/28 finally got confirmed. 7/30 Said goodbye. 7/30 Also [...]
• 2004: May — - 5/12: Reflections on the Getting Things Done methodology Boring month. ;)
• 2004: April — - 4/3: Assigned ERC copyright to GNU. Yay! - 4/8: Sand cats - 4/13: Started aikido - 4/14: Posted teaching evaluations - 4/15: 2nd [...]
• 2004: March — Lots of Planner hacking. - 3/7: Techie dinner with William, Miguel and Jijo. Told him about fai. It made his Shopwise [...]
• 2004: More Filipinos into open source development — sachac: there’s also my former work colleague – pol babao III - he’s the author of phpmylibrary.
• 2003: Chickened out — So much for thoughts of a hard disk transplant – I shake too much and am too uncertain about hardware to [...]
• 2003: Refreshing my Linux install — - Download http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/root.bin - Download http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4/linux.bin - Boot grub with the following commands: kernel (hd0,2)/root/root.bin ide0=ata66 initrd=/root/root.bin initrd (hd0,2)/root/root.bin - Gleefully delete the [...]
• 2003: Sleepy cat — Groggily the cat stirs, curled up on the ergonomic chair. She licks herself before settling back into a comfortable position, yellow-green eyes [...]