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On This Day...

• 2012: Business experience report: Filing taxes! — I filed my corporate taxes and HST today, well ahead of the deadlines. The money will earn negligible interest in [...]
• 2011: Planning an Emacs-based personal wiki – Org? Muse? Hmm… — I miss my Planner wiki! I think it’s time to organize things into a personal wiki again. Blogs are great [...]
• 2009: Book: Closing the Innovation Gap —   The best talent embodies the five core values and has the right combination of aptitude, skill, judgment, passion, and drive. [...]
• 2008: Learning languages — My recent trip to Tel Aviv was a good reason to learn a little Hebrew. I listened to the Hebrew [...]
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending Nov 2, 2008 — This week was half travel, half catching up. I flew to Tel Aviv for a customer workshop at which I [...]
• 2006: Learning a foreign language — Another idea for the activity matrix: learning a foreign language. Japanese? Spanish? Maybe Spanish – I know a few people who can [...]
• 2006: Tweaked blog design — I tweaked my blog design slightly, using a real-life photo instead of my icon and taking a few things off my [...]
• 2006: In other news… — I’m back on the wagon of tracking every expense. There’s a certain satisfaction in knowing that every cent is accounted for. [...]
• 2006: Hack Night — A few days ago, I posted a matrix of great ways to spend time. Simon liked the idea, so last night, we [...]
• 2006: Contact report — I started tracking e-mail sent on 2006.09.01 with a nifty piece of Emacs Lisp code I wrote just for the purpose. Now [...]
• 2006: Microsoft evangelism – tempting! — I had hot chocolate and a terrific conversation with John Oxley, director of community evangelism at Microsoft Canada. He told me about [...]
• 2005: More about teaching — Teaching is the most humbling of experiences. There is nothing like standing there in front of the students and finding yourself [...]
• 2005: ACM controversy — For the most part, Ateneo handled their first ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition wonderfully. But there was one thing that perhaps could have [...]
• 2003: Oooh, Perl is cool — perl -e 'print "*" x 80 . "\n"' I didn’t know about x number…
• 2003: Intrams and Pisay Curriculum — This rant’s from Julius B. Legaspi III: Thank you for those who sent their comments so far. Rest assured I will try [...]
• 2001: Playing with planner (linux, emacs) — Today’s been a busy day. I don’t suppose I can get planner to nicely work with all the rest of [...]