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On This Day...

• 2011: Batch cooking, community-supported agriculture, and gardening — W- and I are big fans of batch cooking. Making large batches of food and freezing individual portions means that [...]
• 2010: New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode — The new workflow looks like it works better for me. Or rather, it’s an old workflow with new tools. [...]
• 2009: Shifting gears — I woke up with a terrible cough–the same one from last week, but worse–and decided not to inflict it on [...]
• 2008: Bio: “IBM: The Next Generation” — I thought I’d start keeping track of the bios I use in presentations, hiding company-specific information as necessary. =) Sacha Chua [...]
• 2005: More about Spec Ops — Jon_P wrote: Also, don’t forget that most hardcore geeks in the Philippines dabble in Linux. The extent of familiarity with MS technologies [...]
• 2005: Annoyed with self — Update: 2013/01/12: Getting better at this! =) Belt bag + digitizing as much as possible helps a lot. One of my [...]
• 2005: Blog envy — How can Zak make Planner look so cool? I need to develop mad CSS skillz.
• 2004: Whew! — Long list of checked-off TODO items. Planner is good for the heart. Today I bought four more spools of yarn, anticipating [...]
• 2003: Links from the past — First noticed on 2003.02.12 - Redesigning an Introductory Java Course to Bridge the Gender Gap (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~tshih/THESIS/thesisFinal.doc) - Introduction to Programming Using Java [...]
• 2003: CS21a ideas for vectors — (education) I want students to be able to keep track of the elements of vectors. I also want them to become familiar [...]
• 2003: Khaire – literary night for tomorrow — From the announcement: “Khaire: Magsaya!:A Literary Night,” reading by accomplished poets, 6-8:30 p.m., Quad 1. Be alive and rejoice at the medley [...]
• 2003: HTML_Form and passwords — Pfft. HTML_Form from http://pear.php.net is not so nice when it comes to passwords in forms.
• 2003: chora — http://www.horde.org/chora/about/ Chora is a CVS repository viewer that I learned about from #php. I _thought_ I’d blogged about it, but I grepped [...]
• 2003: Flash MX on Linux — Apparently, Flash MX is supposed to work under WINE. I should look into installing it, then. =) http://frankscorner.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=28&page=1 for more information. Update [...]
• 2003: Ethics talk with the philosophy department — Introductions - Sandra Lovenia, introduction to IT for comtech, introduction to MIS. - Ariel Maguyon, seniors and juniors, computer architecture, MIS administration - [...]
• 2003: CS21A today and Monday — (education) The files mentioned can be found at http://sacha.free.net.ph/cs21a/ . Looks like my thinking out loud does have its uses, so I’ll [...]
• 2003: info links from Emacs — ;; ;; The following functions to insert info-links into a buffer were originaly ;; posted on gnu.emacs.gnus by Reiner Steib, August 2003. ;; [...]