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On This Day...

• 2012: Things I would like to see fixed — I brainstormed a list of things I would like to see fixed. Of this list, there are probably quite a [...]
• 2011: Starting piano again — J- and I have started piano lessons at a nearby music school. The teacher evaluated her as Grade 3-4, and [...]
• 2010: Technology evangelists: What we do, how to find and hire one, how to become one — I had a great chat with Simon Law yesterday about technology evangelism. A startup approached him looking for a tech [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Weeks ending July 12, 2009 and July 19, 2009 — So behind! Catching up… From the previous week’s plans: travel to Ottawa for planning meeting sort out more Transition2-related bugs July 6-12: Flew to Ottawa [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: week ending July 20, 2008 — Oops. I’m a bit late. =).There wasn’t much else to report besides the GBS Learning Week and my feedback from [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Testing multisite/domain-access Drupal locally and on a testing server — We’re using Domain Access to manage a number of related subdomains on a single server. I prefer to develop and [...]
• 2007: Weekly review: 2007.07.16 – 2007.07.21 — Last week After six revisions this week, my thesis is almost in a defensible form. Yay! Will defend my thesis on August [...]
• 2006: The best birthday gifts — What do you give people on their birthdays? People struggle so much with that question, often giving up and grabbing the [...]
• 2006: Google Trends — Interesting conversation on the plug-misc mailing list. Mark Anthony C. Delfin wrote: On 7/22/06, Daniel Escasa wrote: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols plays with Google [...]
• 2006: Think! Friday — One of the things I like about IBM is the Think! Friday initiative, which encourages people to use their Friday afternoons [...]
• 2006: I’ve got music… – Hosting dinner parties — Apologies to Gershwin: I’ve got music, I’ve got rhythm, I’ve got my plates – who could ask for anything more? Some former [...]
• 2005: Happy days are here again! — I can send and receive text messages! Yay! Yay! Yay! Non-Filipinos may not understand precisely how important text messaging is. Heck, even [...]
• 2004: Talked to Doc V about BlueJ today — Got (mildly) scolded about the use of BlueJ. My class is doing fine (or at least I think so), but other [...]
• 2004: “IBM to Help Train Students for IT Work” — The new IBM Academic Initiative is a program to aid academic institutions that support open-source software and open standards by contributing hardware [...]