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On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending December 2, 2011 — This week was busy because we were getting ready to launch Project O. Launch date for project O is on [...]
• 2010: More thoughts on week beginnings: it’s about being proactive — One of the great things about reflecting out loud is that other people share their own insights and make things [...]
• 2009: Reflections on passion: Don’t let your job get in the way of your career — “We criticize senior management when they focus only on short-term issues, allowing quarterly results to interfere with longer-term developmental needs. [...]
• 2006: Bleah. Never doing that again. — Should definitely have stopped eating when I no longer felt hungry, instead of finishing the entire meal. I could blame the [...]
• 2006: Things are working out — School is winding up nicely. I’m making progress on my research. My personal life has been much too interesting over the [...]
• 2006: Why you should do more research before reserving a spot in a hostel — In San Francisco, having narrowly escaped staying in a very very dodgy hostel. (And believe me, I’ve stayed in pretty dodgy [...]
• 2006: Argh — Fixing tech problems was not the way I imagined spending my Sunday afternoon. Oh, forget this. I’ll worry about my e-mail [...]
• 2006: Checked in — Have checked into decidedly much less dodgy HI-Downtown. Can always, always, always trust Hostelling International. =) Now that my accommodations are [...]
• 2005: Teaching software engineering — Mario Carreon writes: Gosh though, one of the things i lack as a teacher is how software is developed in the “real [...]
• 2005: Conferences and Macs — Picture from Kevin Marks: Bloggercon I’m seeing a _lot_ more Macs at tech conferences. Heck, I’d go for a Mac if they [...]
• 2005: Computer science: universities and technical/vocational schools — One of the things that always gets me on my soapbox is the complaint that universities’ computer science curricula don’t meet [...]
• 2004: Reflections on teaching — It was a joy to teach brilliant and enthusiastic students who learned by leaps and bounds. I hope I had in [...]
• 2004: Awwwwww… — http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2004/11/art-class.html Wasn’t that such a wonderful thing to do? <impish grin> Go and do a good deed today.
• 2004: Update from John Wiegley — In 2004.12.01#note1, I expressed my regret that John Wiegley took his blog down because of plagiarsm. Here’s an update: Hello! to everyone [...]
• 2004: PHP photo galleries — I’m looking for a file- or MySQL-backed PHP photo gallery that allows you to tag photos for later searching (maybe like [...]
• 2003: Bank accounts — I was thinking of opening a checking account at Equitable PCI because the bank branch is closer to Ateneo and having [...]