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On This Day...

• 2013: Impatient for spring — If you leave a little bit left when chopping green onions, you can grow new ones. The ones on the [...]
• 2012: Visual metaphors: Change — Click on the image for a larger version. Change is a journey. Sometimes you have a map, or a guide, or [...]
• 2011: Making better use of travel time — I’m going to be in the office a lot more as I help with proposals or coach new hours. Time [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending April 18, 2010 — From last week’s plans: Work [-] Map team challenges to examples of groups doing well [-] Install software needed to create [...]
• 2010: SimpleXML and Xpath problems solved — I’ve been working on a tool that looks for a list of people with a given tag and displays their [...]
• 2009: Managing virtual assistants: Imagining more possibilities — When it comes to finding people for my outsourcing team, I’m like a 5-year-old in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. There [...]
• 2007: Steel-cut oats — I have officially graduated to steel-cut oats. It took me a long time to try it out, but now that I [...]
• 2006: Finding a niche — Enterprise social bookmarking. That’s what I’m into. Plenty of interesting questions and opportunities. It’s not going to be my main [...]
• 2006: Happy girl — Did lots of fun things at IBM. Being there more than once a week definitely changes the dynamic. Blogging becomes more [...]
• 2006: Comfort food: SPAM — Here’s incongruity for you: jasmine rice and SPAM. Yes, rice is rice, but jasmine rice is soft and fluffy and sticky [...]
• 2006: Meeting — Ack. I don’t think I’ll stick around for pub night. I’m _starving_, and I have really low energy right now [...]
• 2005: Freenet appreciation day — I am ultra-grateful to Jijo Sevilla (jijo AT free.net.ph) for my mail and DNS. He’s ubercool. He says: You can help by [...]
• 2005: Subic — We went to Subic last weekend. It was tons of fun. =) I’m really glad I had an opportunity to spend [...]
• 2004: New system — I should get around to making a new Courses submission system so that I’ll actually use it. Improvements: - Teachers can create [...]
• 2004: Security comparison between Linux and Windows — https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/library/library-r?S_PKG=dllibrary Registration required. Link from Dominique Cimafranca E-Mail from Dominique Cimafranca