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On This Day...

• 2012: Visual book review: Help Your Kids Get Better Grades — I received a review copy of Gary E. Howard’s Help Your Kids Get Better Grades at just the right time. [...]
• 2011: Thinking about improving our freezer use — We have a 5.3 cu. ft. Haier chest freezer in addition to the freezer drawer built into the fridge. We’ve [...]
• 2010: Fit for You: Thinking about my priorities — In a lively mentoring session on Wednesday, Annie English suggested that I fill in the Fit for You assessment, something [...]
• 2008: New presentation: “New media, New generation” — I’ll be in Washington, DC from Monday to Wednesday next week to participate in a panel on new media. It’ll [...]
• 2008: Internet Explorer – hovering on non-link items — Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 don’t support the :hover pseudoclass on anything aside from A link elements, but the site [...]
• 2008: Emacs: Jump to anything — I just came across the Anything extension for Emacs. After you load anything.el, you can type M-x anything RET and [...]
• 2008: If you can, teach; If you can’t teach, do — I’ve never agreed with the adage “If you can, do; if you can’t, teach.” If you’ve ever caught yourself saying [...]
• 2007: Okay, I can solve that — I think I can deal with the temporary resident visa through mail. Now the only thing I need to figure out [...]
• 2007: Paperwork hassles — This is more complicated than I thought. The post-graduate work permit I am getting is most definitely not an entry document, which [...]
• 2006: How to find great developers — Joel Spolsky writes about finding great developers. Internships are a terrific way to scope out a candidate and also get [...]
• 2006: Long stories deserve long responses — I deserved that public finger-wagging for my two-line reply to one of my sister’s long stories. Which reminds me, I still [...]
• 2006: More thoughts on what I want to do with my life — The Labour Day weekend gave me an excellent opportunity to reflect on what I can do with my life, and I [...]
• 2006: Bayan Ko — The song “Bayan Ko” never fails to move me, and it is to this song and other traditional songs that I [...]
• 2006: Sometimes I just get homesick — I sometimes forget that I’ve only been here for a year and that it’s perfectly normal for me to feel homesick [...]
• 2003: Fingering — http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/paper/fkm.htm A really wearable input device “FingeRing” is developed for coming wearable PDAs. By attaching ring shaped sensors on each finger, many commands [...]
• 2003: New news sources — First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/) Social tech articles http://www.wirelesswatchjapan.com/ Gadgets, wireless http://technologyreports.net/nextinnovator/index.html Some wearable news
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