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On This Day...

• 2013: Understanding my procrastination — This week’s Less Wrong Toronto rationality challenge was about procrastination: observing how, why, and when you procrastinate, and what you [...]
• 2012: Unstructured time update, now that I have my own business — I like making lists of things I can do to make the most of chunks of time. Lists make it [...]
• 2011: Setting up Ruby on Rails on a Redhat Enterprise Linux Rackspace Cloud Server — 1. Compile Ruby from source. First, install all the libraries you’ll need to compile Ruby. yum install gcc zlib [...]
• 2011: The Busy Person’s Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers) — I promised to put together a talk on learning for an IBM virtual conference for new hires. Here’s a rough [...]
• 2010: Unstructured time update — I’m going to find out if all that cooking we did last weekend will get us through this week and [...]
• 2009: Managing virtual assistants: the surprising benefits of transcription — I frequently give speeches. During some months, practically every week involves a presentation or two. I usually post presentation, recording, [...]
• 2007: I miss my family — The only way to keep sane is to not wish that I was somewhere else, but I really really miss my [...]
• 2006: Grill time! — Toastmasters from 6 to 8 means I usually can’t meet anyone for dinner on Tuesdays, which is why I was surprised [...]
• 2006: Helping people find their voice — One of my friends scoffs at Toastmasters, but moments like this make it definitely worthwhile. Today one of the members brought his [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Lasagna — Shared lasagna and vegetable stew with Mike Tsang last night. This informal potluck dinner thing is working out quite well… Random Japanese [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Lasagna — Shared lasagna and vegetable stew with Mike Tsang last night. This informal potluck dinner thing is working out quite well… Random Japanese [...]
• 2003: Week summary view — Cross-reference: PlannerMode#4
• 2003: NealStephenson uses Emacs! — Alan Shutko on debian-user@lists.debian.org links to http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/nealstephensonOS.html . Coooool. Well, as if the OrdoEmacs reference in Cryptonomicon wasn’t a giveaway… NealStephenson is cool.
• 2003: Emacs tips — EmacsWiki:ProgrammingEffectivelyWithEmacs has a lot of productivity-boosting tips. In particular, it links to a Kuro5hin article about making Emacs stand up [...]
• 2003: Cards — Another cool project can be found at http://cards.sourceforge.net . It was started by Sam Watkins, one of my friends and an [...]
• 2003: Hacking Society — On the compsci mailing list, Migz Paraz mentions the Hacking Society, a pretty cool idea. I’d love a real-life space like this. Currently, [...]
• 2003: Another cat link — - http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/howto10.html
• 2003: Gender stereotypes in CS — Susan Fox (SIGCSE) has a student double-majoring in CS and Psychology. From the message: A part of her project is collecting [...]
• 2003: I hate floppies. — This is the Nth bad sector that I’ve come across. It’s starting to get a little annoying.
• 2003: More puzzles — The anonymous person from 2003.02.26#6 contributes another puzzle link: http://www.claymath.org/Millenium_Prize_Problems/ . This one has heavier problems with big cash prizes.
• 2003: Graduate school deadline — The deadline for applying to the graduate school of education in Ateneo is the second week of May, or 2003.05.05.
• 2003: Yesterday’s CS party — Yesterday I had a thanksgiving party for the computer science faculty and staff. People who went: Dr. Vergara, Dr. Manalastas, Sir [...]