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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending August 3, 2012 — Lots of tech changes! Getting the hang of using my tablet. Upgraded to a new cellphone with a data plan. [...]
• 2011: Drupal and JQuery 1.5: Fixing the JSON encoding of ampersands — Drupal 6′s drupal_json method encodes ampersands incorrectly for JQuery 1.5, causing the rather cryptic error: Uncaught Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [...]
• 2010: Success and blogging — What’s success when you’re writing a personal blog–not a niche blog which you want to make money from through [...]
• 2008: Finding something worth talking about — "I don’t know what I’d talk about," people often tell me when I encourage them to think of topics for [...]
• 2008: Emacs and Gnus: zomg, new chapter out the door! — So I _finally_ pulled everything together and got my Gnus chapter out the door. Hooray, hooray, hooray! Reading Mail with Gnus [...]
• 2008: OpenOffice.org: Replacing dingbats — I _really_ should have blogged this when I first wrote it. That would’ve saved me time writing it again! Sub ReplaceDingbats(optional [...]
• 2008: Emacs: Caps lock as M-x — Inspired by Lennart Borgman’s recent post on help.gnu.emacs about binding Caps Lock to M-x on Microsoft Windows, I set my [...]
• 2007: No plans yet — My birthday’s coming up next week and I still don’t have any plans. Somehow, that realization makes me feel lonely. Is this [...]
• 2006: Month in review — Check out my May, June, July, and August indices, too. =)
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: It’s all about choices — (I think about this a fair bit even as a 22-year-old because I want to know my values, and reflecting on [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing: Women in Technology — Today’s Social Tech Brewing event about Women in Technology gave me much to think about. I’ll blog a bit more about [...]
• 2005: Chicken adobo results — I microwaved the chicken adobo for another minute and a half just to feel slightly better about it, and fried it [...]
• 2005: On intelligence and wisdom — On mensaphilopen, Alistair Israel said: The smart ones realize that this it isn’t worth living in this country, and seek their fortune [...]
• 2005: Finally! Internet! — I had been grumbling about it for all of five minutes as I fiddled about with various settings, finding it completely [...]
• 2003: FOAF — Friend-of-a-friend descriptions are up at http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/foaf.rdf
• 2003: Invitations — - Berris, Dean Michael – sent - Carreon, Mario – sent - lastname, Aimee – sent c/o Mario - Cimafranca, Dominique – sent - [...]
• 2003: Women and technical courses — http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/Women+Tech/readings/Margolis.html Link from JM Ibanez
• 2003: Java — Calen is referring to the “Rethinking the Java Curriculum” article: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/21/javaxp.html With some interesting follow-up commentary here: http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/archives/000454.html
• 2003: Enye (n with tilde) — - http://marc.free.net.ph:80/message/19991216.121601.49226c7e.html - http://marc.free.net.ph:80/message/20011213.093356.e7625d7b.html - http://marc.free.net.ph:80/message/20011213.180210.24306ae0.html - http://marc.free.net.ph:80/message/20011214.010850.5f9e91ed.html