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On This Day...

• 2012: Paper, Tablet, and Tablet PC: Comparing tools for sketchnoting — After using my Asus Infinity TF700 tablet for a month, I think I’m getting the hang of how this fits [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending September 2, 2011 — It felt like a reasonable week. Looking back, though, I’m surprised by how much I finished! =) From last week’s [...]
• 2010: Thinking of autumn — A former teacher of mine asked me, “If you were a season, what would you be, and why?” I thought [...]
• 2009: Just in case — We’ve been working on our 72-hour survival kits, and we decided to test the food in our kit. Time to [...]
• 2009: Process: Update my IBM meeting calendar — Log on to calendar.sachachua.com and to mail.sachachua.com in two windows. Arrange them so that you can see both windows. Click on [...]
• 2008: Taming the Firefox keyboard with keyconfig — In my Mozilla Firefox, iMacros and ScribeFire were fighting over the F8 keyboard shortcut, and it was driving me crazy. [...]
• 2007: Paperwork progress — Clearance was surprisingly easy to do. My quest for signatures took me to labs I’d never once set foot in, like [...]
• 2005: Developing a system — I’m quite pleased with my household chores whirl. It’s all neatly pipelined. Roughly: Sort clothes into hand-wash and machine wash piles. [...]
• 2005: Being in the moment — There are so many things that my mom and I should do before school starts, before she leaves, before everything else [...]
• 2005: Lifehack from Mom: Drying your drip-dry and dry-flat clothes? No problem! — My mom is _amazing._ I told her about my problems finding a neat and roommate-friendly way to dry clothes that were [...]
• 2003: Teaching reflections — education — May I please drop the pronoun “I” from my entries? Darn thing’s making me feel quite self-conscious. Which is not necessarily [...]
• 2003: Wrote the quiz, too —
• 2003: Just finished the [[CS21AFirst03#Exercises.Aquarium][Aquarium]] exercise — So that’s two lab exercises written today, yay! I’d have settled for 5×5, but Dr. Sarmenta did loop() and I guess [...]
• 2003: Feedback on LightsOnModel.java — cs21a, education — From Miguel Paraz: Yup. It reinforces the idea of attributes and minimizes the problem with same-named parameters and local variables. > (They should know [...]
• 2003: Compare notes with Dr. Sarmenta and Fanny — loop Bouncing ball act method, Actor interface 5 ball version of the pong game args object array and casting? luis: bouncing ball thing, projectile thing, convenience [...]
• 2003: Niff music display applet — http://niffty.sourceforge.net/ From the webpage: Niffty is a Java applet which allows a composer to display NIFF formatted music notation on a web [...]
• 2003: CS faculty meeting over chips — - students who get a low or high score on the first test - intro courses, later courses, and preferences - proctoring
• 2003: using ghostview to be a printer driver for cups — scheduler not responding Doc Gerrald