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On This Day...

• 2011: Thinking about our development practices — We’re gearing up for another Drupal project. This one is going to be interesting in terms of workflow. I’m working [...]
• 2010: Passion — (click for a bigger version) My dad: As far as I can remember, I’ve always been surrounded by examples of passion. [...]
• 2008: Weekly review — It seems that all I did at work this week was struggle with CSS and HTML. (Darn you, IE6!) And [...]
• 2008: A geek’s guide to Toronto — Toronto Reference Library Royal Ontario Museum Active Surplus Linux Caffe Ontario Science Centre Gino Ledesma (one of my friends from university) is in Toronto for [...]
• 2006: Camels — Here’s a tidbit from “Communication of Innovations” by Everett Rogers: “For instance, there are 6,000 Arabic words dealing with camels, including ninety [...]
• 2006: My family’s moving — My sister’s having her next Carnivore Night party at the new house. It boggles the mind, actually. I’d lived all my [...]
• 2006: Carnivore Night XXXVII: Magdalo at Magdiwang — My sister just sent me another great invitation to another great party. =) She’s an awesome cook and entertainer. Way [...]
• 2006: Ruby — Somewhere along the way, I seem to have turned into a Ruby geek. I spent the day converting most of my [...]
• 2004: Moonlight — The smog-choked and world-weary sky shrouded the moon and she was glad of that, glad of the blurred shadows she faded [...]
• 2004: “After Life” — The funeral procession slowly winds its way through the rain, oblivious to the struggling man desperately trying to claw his way [...]
• 2004: “Access Patterns Organize Data” — Old Dominion University researchers have devised a method that mimics the brain’s ability to order information so that connections can be automatically [...]
• 2004: “What Is Google’s Secret Weapon? An Army of Ph.D.’s” — Google, the next challenger to Microsoft’s dominance in personal computing, may have an advantage in that its entire culture is infused with [...]
• 2003: Formal wear — Our measurements for dresses for Ching’s wedding were taken today. I flipped through the magazines and books there, but didn’t really [...]