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On This Day...

• 2011: Piano lesson week 2 — I’m starting to get the hang of the first part of the overture from “Raymond” and this bluesy sort of [...]
• 2010: Electronic ears: Using Performous to learn how to sing — SCHEDULED: 2010-07-28 Wed 08:00 I’ve been singing in the wrong key(s) all my life. Thanks to Brendon Robinson’s [...]
• 2009: Taro — I joined other recent hires for an evening out that ended up at a bubble tea shop. I ordered taro [...]
• 2009: Sewing arghs — I’m temporarily finding sewing frustrating. I should be precise: sewing dresses and blouses is frustrating for me, because the bodice [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Patching simpletest for Drupal 5 to understand the Location header — Automated testing is part of good programmer hygiene. I wanted to write tests for both functions and Web-based interfaces in [...]
• 2008: Kaizen: What would make our Drupal lives better? — Kaizen: relentless improvement. We’re getting ready for the next phase of our Drupal project, and it’s a good time to think [...]
• 2008: Emacs, Remember, and GTD — Charles Cave has written an excellent Remember Mode Tutorial with useful templates for notes, receipts, books read, daily reviews, and [...]
• 2007: Park play; A Midsummer Night’s Dream — More exercise at the park today. I did three sets of five assisted chin-ups and assorted other exercises, although I still [...]
• 2007: I am going to have it all — I have decided to do extraordinarily well, and to live the fullest life I can. That means a rich and fulfilling [...]
• 2005: Custom planner =) — I went to a shop specializing in pens and organizers, but I couldn’t find anything that matched what I had in [...]
• 2005: Competition: Build a PC in the fastest time and be crowned as the Philippines’ FASTEST GEEK! — Thanks to Marcelle for passing on the word! Build a PC in the fastest time and be crowned as the Philippines’ [...]
• 2005: Zero Gravity Circus — I biked over to 1300 Gerrard Street East to join the weekly Zero Gravity Circus practice (7 – 11, Wednesdays). [...]
• 2004: Japanese test! Monday! At 2! — Eeeeeek!
• 2004: And then there were two — Apparently, we’re down to two candidates from the Philippines. I feel like I’m on Survivor.
• 2003: Persons With Disability Waiting to Feel ICT’s Impact — By Nina Somera Posted 18 June 2003 While most segments of the Philippine society has already felt the benefits brought by the advances [...]
• 2003: Interesting mail stats — I ran gnus-stat.el on my mail.misc mailbox and these stats came up: (my name appears because I gcc myself) Total number of [...]
• 2003: Swish-E and Gnus — swish-e -i . -N ~/Mail/index.swish -f ~/Mail/index.incremental -e -v 2 swish-e -M index.swish index.incremental index.tmp mv index.tmp index.swish