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On This Day...

• 2012: Blog analysis for 2012: ~133,000 words so far — I reviewed my blog posts in 2012 and rated them on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 indicates [...]
• 2011: Quantified Awesome: Building my own time tracker — I took advantage of the holiday break to build my own time tracker into Quantified Awesome. I wanted a simple [...]
• 2010: Drupal fixes: Modifying the entries in Calendar — The Drupal Calendar module is great. You can show view results in a decent-looking calendar easily. However, if you want [...]
• 2009: How you know your training sessions are working; Remote Presentations That Rock — We facilitated “Remote Presentations That Rock” for the second women’s leadership group a few weeks ago. After watching the video, [...]
• 2007: Emacs: Choosing between Org and Planner — jaaronfarr asked me why I switched from Planner to Org. Both of them are popular personal information managers for Emacs, [...]
• 2007: Bugfix: Time estimation — This is a slightly better version of sacha/org-calculate-free-time that can understand prioritized tasks. Also, if you’re working after midnight, it takes into [...]
• 2006: Back from wakeboarding — We spent the afternoon at the Camsur Watersports Complex. My sisters and I tried wakeboarding. Now I can barely raise my [...]
• 2006: My favorite blog posts — Here are my other favorite blog posts: 2006.01.07#2: Things every geek should know 2006.02.05#2: Why I like the Emacs editor 2006.03.18#3: Upon reflection 2006.03.26#1: [...]
• 2006: Thoughts on life — I’ve thought a fair bit about life this year, and I’m getting a better idea of what I want to do. [...]
• 2006: A year in review: Emacs — Over the last five months, I’ve added all sorts of code to my Emacs to make it a contact relationship management [...]
• 2006: I keep forgetting that I’m on vacation — Me: “So, what are we doing today?” Mom: “Nothing.” <brain implodes> Hmm. Maybe I should meditate a little bit before going to the [...]
• 2006: Ay, my sister — So my sister’s drafting a letter to this guy she really likes, and she ends up explaining her feelings in terms [...]
• 2006: From the Freeciv AI documentation — The code base used to be in a bad shape but it has gotten a lot better. The reason for [...]
• 2006: Slowly but surely making progress — Goal: inbox zero by New Year! This will be somewhat easier if I don’t check mail between now and then, of [...]
• 2005: Fireworks festival — Went to the first day of the international fireworks festival at Manila Bay. Papa wrangled a press pass. =) Took pictures, [...]