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On This Day...

• 2013: How to make a hand-drawn highlighted web page header — For the longest time, I’d been meaning to make my website look more hand-written and to take advantage of Google [...]
• 2012: Starting up my delegation experiments again: data entry from receipts — We decided to skip the community-based and culture program this season, and instead buy the vegetables ourselves. I wanted to [...]
• 2011: Experimenting with standing desks — (From May 12) People in IT tend to spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer. Unfortunately, [...]
• 2010: Getting the hang of gardening — I’m starting to figure out what works for me in terms of gardening. I start seeds indoors on a seed [...]
• 2009: More gardening — We spent most of this weekend thinking about and working on our garden. Laura’s going to think of what we [...]
• 2006: More thoughts about what I want to do with my life — Here’s a sketch of what I want to do: I want to help people connect with people through social software. That’s a [...]
• 2006: Hooray for people who know how to cook! — How to not burn pancakes, from Mom: use a teflon pan. heat pan. put very very little oil on the pan. [...]
• 2006: Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship — From: “Santamaria, Samuel” SSantamaria AT aicpa.org Here’s another victory we can be proud of. Tell your friends about it. A team of [...]
• 2006: Blogly angst — Hands, a sketch by Dominique Cimafranca Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we think it should, but then that could be [...]
• 2006: Microsoft Word in schools — Didith Rodrigo, the chair of my alma mater’s computer science department, seems to be getting a bit frustrated with people [...]
• 2006: More thoughts about social computing — Come to think of it, the hardest and most interesting part won’t be figuring out how the technology works. That [...]
• 2006: Aha! — Thanks to a conversation earlier about web development and careers, I think I’ve figured out a little more about what I [...]
• 2006: Renaissance dance performance — Toronto Coranto – the renaissance dance group that I got drafted into - performed for a class on Love and the [...]
• 2006: Breakfast — When Steve called me up on my cellphone at around 8:00 and said only “Help!”, I panicked and nearly fell off [...]
• 2004: Acoustic cryptanalysis for possible cryptographic attacks — Acoustic cryptanalysis – http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ Link sent by Carlos Sia
• 2004: Research ideas — Blog visualizer It is useful to see how blog entries and other chronologically arranged items like e-mail cluster around certain topics over [...]
• 2004: Took the TOEFL — Am still somewhat annoyed that I got one of the listening questions wrong. Max score 297. We’ll see what my actual [...]