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On This Day...

• 2013: Getting ready for the Emacs Conference — I’m in London for Emacs Conference 2013 (squee!!), which is tomorrow. John Wiegley and I are starting the day off [...]
• 2012: Visual metaphors: Balance — I’m working on improving my visual vocabulary by collecting metaphors. This turns out to be an interesting challenge. I’ll add [...]
• 2011: More thoughts on time analysis: correlations and revealed preferences — People often ask about the time analyses I do as part of my weekly review. My weekly time tracking reports [...]
• 2011: Helping kids learn about automation — J- shuffled in and out of the living room, listless and bored. As part of a 9-week simulation of real [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending March 28, 2010 — Plans from last week: Work [X] Handle post-engagement tasks for UK workshop [X] Finalize personal business commitments and individual [...]
• 2009: Virtual conferences change the game — One of the reasons why I give presentations at conferences so often is because I submit proposals for presentations so [...]
• 2009: Weekly report: Week ending March 29, 2009 — From last week: Sort out Transition2 bugs Getting ready for release! Finish proposal Get Smart presentation on IBM Web 2.0 tools That rocked! Finish [...]
• 2009: New library reminder script — Gabriel Mansour reminded me to update my old library script. =) Here’s the new one: library-reminder.pl. Serious geekery may be [...]
• 2009: Making the most of opportunities – tips for managing time, energy, and money — Over dinner at Linuxcaffe last night, my friends and I had a great time catching up and sharing our latest [...]
• 2006: Weird job post — I got this on one of the Linux-related mailing lists I’m on. by the way; kinsa naa kaila nga female na [...]
• 2006: Song, by Sara Teasdale — Song > You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the [...]
• 2006: Singing — While studying in the common room, I heard someone singing in the piano room. I knocked on the door and asked [...]
• 2005: Dermatologists — I find it difficult to trust dermatologists. I mean, really. Now there’s a good business opportunity: captive self-selected audience, little real differentiation [...]
• 2005: ACM — I went to Ateneo early this morning, fully intending to just say hi and then go back home to revamp [...]
• 2003: graduation stories — Okay, before I go to sleep, I need to dump all these graduation stories somewhere. =) Let’s try chronological order or [...]