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On This Day...

• 2013: Weekly review: Week ending April 12, 2013 — This was the week of video-processing! I cut the livestream recording into talk segments, spliced in close-ups of the screen [...]
• 2012: Learning how to say no — The most fascinating thing I’m learning about business these days is the art and discipline of saying no. Many people [...]
• 2011: Still cold? Wear a hat to bed — I remember teasing W- about how he wears a toque to bed. (It’s a small, brimless hat also known as [...]
• 2010: For love of numbers — I enjoy thinking about money. I mentally calculate unit prices in the produce section (counter-intuitively, loose garlic was cheaper than [...]
• 2007: Strange wikindx error — Whenever I post a note to wikindx, it pops up a dialog prompting me to save or edit index.php. This [...]
• 2007: Don Marti’s e-mail productivity hack — See http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/387 for inspiration. ;;;_+ Inbox anti-addiction hack ;; ;; The following code implements the inbox productivity hack described ;; by Don Marti in [...]
• 2006: Girl! — I play around with Ruby on Rails, and what do I do? Build one webapp to keep track of what’s in [...]
• 2006: Woooooohooooooo! Congrats, Ateneo! — You go, kids! That’s totally, totally, totally awesome. Kudos to Allan, Punzki and Topher, and to their coaches (Hi Doc Mana! [...]
• 2006: Sacha-sense tingling — This is what it’s like to be loved. =) I was having one of my I-hate-being-an-international-student moments when Dominique turned up online, [...]
• 2006: Limit — A limitless future limits the present. What’s my future? Is this home, is this where I’m supposed to belong? What of [...]
• 2006: Pinged — And to the friend who pointed out that lots of people are probably pinging me to make sure I’m alright: spot [...]
• 2006: Reflections — I haven’t been blogging lately. Things have been a bit confusing, but I’m glad that I’m starting to sort things out. [...]
• 2005: flpsed — flpsed is a WYSIWYG Postscript editor. To edit pdfs, install xpdf, then: ps2pdf, flpsed, pdftops. Interesting… On Technorati: opensource, applications
• 2005: Went to Pisay — I went to Philippine Science High School to register for the national alumni association and designate a proxy for the elections [...]
• 2005: Keeping it Personal — Update 2013-04-28: Fixed Japanese encoding error by re-copying from examples. http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2005/04/09/keeping-personal/ is an insightful blog post on personalizing a planner. It inspires [...]
• 2005: Chat with Ranulf — I had a nice long chat with Ranulf Goss about life, the universe, and everything. I think it’s absolutely wonderful that he [...]
• 2004: Tired! — Went to my first aikido session. Was too late for 5:30 session so attended 7:30 session instead. Diane was late and [...]
• 2004: Thoughts on progress reports — Dean Michael Berris blogged: I personally despise the need to write progress reports in human terms — mainly I want to show [...]
• 2004: Understanding mathematics web talk — From Joe Corneli: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~jcorneli/z/understanding%20mathematics/ E-Mail from Joe Corneli