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On This Day...

• 2013: Sketchnote Lessons: Adding Emphasis — If you emphasize parts of your sketches, you make it easier to review and “read.” Color, weight, spacing, contrast, underline, depth, [...]
• 2012: Tech report: Living on the T-Mobile 2G network — I was going to be in the US for 14 days, so I picked up a free prepaid SIM card [...]
• 2011: Quantified: How I spent seven weeks — At the other Quantified Self Toronto meeting, I promised to get back into time tracking and to share my results. [...]
• 2010: Week ending September 26, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Support Classroom to Client: Collect lessons learned and revise material [C] Build Connections Toolkit: Add [...]
• 2007: Net worth report — I spent some time figuring out how to generate Gnuplot graphs from the financial records I’ve been keeping with Ledger. [...]
• 2007: Advertise to yourself! — Fellow Emacs geek Paul Lussier pointed me to Take Back Your Brain!, a blog about influencing _your own brain_ through [...]
• 2006: Living with others — I’m looking forward to living alone, but I appreciate the lessons I’m learning by living with random roommates. It’s interesting seeing [...]
• 2005: On polls and the ‘best’ — From Brain Gain Network: BGN Poll: Which is the Best Engineering School in the Philippines? We love ranking things. The best [...]
• 2005: Achievement! — After having successfully managed to go to the gym two weeks in a row, I decided to see if I could [...]
• 2005: David Allen rescues kittens — http://www.davidco.com/blogs/david/archives/2005/09/the_new_kittie.html karma++.
• 2005: I didn’t lose the stamps after all! — Yay, yay, yay. =) Apparently left them in my cubicle.
• 2005: Not a geek for nothing — One of the good things about being a geek is being able to fix someone else’s comment script when it’s badly [...]
• 2005: Brain Gain Network — Brain Gain Network: a worldwide network of technopreneurs for the Philippine IT industry. BGN seeks to counter the Brain Drain [...]
• 2003: Teaching thoughts — It is strange to see our sins as teachers shown in our students who lecture… ;) Something more interactive and fun [...]
• 2003: Find unit testing tools — This sem break, I should invest some time learning how to do unit testing with PHP (and maybe even Emacs LISP [...]
• 2003: Friendster — http://www.friendster.com Come to think of it, this is FOAF, only hidden and centralized.