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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending December 7, 2012 — I sprained my ankle in fitness class, but I’m almost back to normal. It’s been quite an eventful week! I’m [...]
• 2011: Blog analysis for 2011: 173,363 words so far; also, using the Rails console to work with WordPress — How many posts did I post per month, not including this or future posts? (See the geek appendix below to [...]
• 2010: Sketchnotes: The Science of Blogging: Dan Zarrella (Hubspot) —   Awesome stuff. Key actions for most blogs: by-lines should list real people, you should have  Facebook and Retweet buttons that [...]
• 2010: Making the most of the conference hallway track — The informal conversations you have in conference corridors in between sessions can help you learn a lot more and [...]
• 2009: Editing feedback on The Shy Connector — Here’s the detailed feedback from one of my editors on The Shy Connector. Lots of stuff to work with here! [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending December 6, 2009 — Whoops! Nearly let a week slip past me. Plans from the previous week: Work Catch up on deferred work Interview Jason Wild [...]
• 2009: Process: Using Activities to organize workshop-related information — We regularly organize Innovation Discovery workshops that bring together experts across IBM and client decisionmakers to explore emerging topics. In [...]
• 2005: Trend Micro Tech Challenge, blogged — Check out the MSU-IIT coach’s blog entry about the Trend Micro Tech Challenge. =) On Technorati: tmtc, philippines
• 2005: Learning Bisaya — Are there comprehensive Bisaya references with example sentences, aside from http://www.bohol.ph/books/Jimenez/EnglishBisayaGrammar.html ? I’d like to learn Bisaya, but I’m worried I might end [...]
• 2004: Random notes from meeting with Prof. Chignell — Sharon Strauss, lead of the project. Introduction. Order tree interface for searching. Clinical evidence at the point of care. Doctors can’t remember [...]
• 2004: On effective websites — We’re looking at two audiences here: people who check out our website to find out more about Adphoto as a company, [...]
• 2003: Breakfast steak, potatoes — Have potatoes down pat – halved marble potatoes in covered container with pat of butter, cook for three minutes, stir, then [...]
• 2003: 2003.12.09 – White (M.) / Black (Sacha) – Starbucks — 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 Bg5 4 h6 Bh5 5 dxe5 Bxf3 6 gxf3 dxe5 7 Qxd8+ Kd8 8 f4 Nc6 9 fxe5 Nxe5 10 f4 Bb4+? 11 c3 Nc6 12 cxb4 Nxb4 13 Bd2 Nc2+ 14 Ke2 Na1 15 Kd3 Ke7 16 Nc3 Rd8+ 17 Nd5+ Kd6 18 Bb4+ c5 19 Ba5 b6 20 Bc3 f6 21 Kd2 Ne7 22 Bc4 Kc6 23 Rxa1 b5 24 Kd3? bxc4+ 25 Kxc4 Nxd5 26 exd5+ Rxd5 27 b4 Re8 28 b5+ Kd6 29 Rb1 Re4+ 30 Kb3 Rd3 31 Rc1 Kd5 32 a4 Rh3 33 Rd1+ Ke6 34 a5 Rb4+ 35 Ka3? Rxc3+ 36 Ka2 Rxb5 37 Rf1? Rc4 38 f5+ Ke5 39 a6? Ra4++
• 2003: 2003.12.09 – White (M.) / Black (Sacha) – Starbucks — 2003.12.09 White (M.) Black (Sacha) 1 e4 e5 2 Bc4 Nf6 3 d3 d5 4 exd5 Nxd5 5 Qh5 Nc6 6 Nc3 Be6 7 Bg5 Nf6 8 o-o-o Nxh5 9 Bxd8 Rxd8 10 d4? Bxc4 11 b3 exd4 12 Nb5? Bxb5 13 c4 Ba3+ 14 Kc2 Nb4+ 15 Kb1 Bc6 16 Nf3 Be4+ 17 Ka1 Nc2+ 18 Kb1 Ne3+ 19 Ka1 Nxd1 20 Rxd1 d3 21 Re1 Nf6 22 Ng5 o-o 23 Nxe4 Nxe4 24 Rxe4? d2 25 resign - No way to prevent … d1 (Q or R,++).
• 2003: Blind computing — Text of my e-mail to Bong Copuyoc: Dear Bong, I’m glad to hear that you’re working on an article focusing on assistive technology! [...]
• 2003: Mark Punzalan is a Microsoft Student Ambassador now — Hi Sacha, In case you didn’t know, I’ve been drafted into Microsoft’s Student Ambassador program. We’re planning to go to different [...]
• 2003: CS21B meeting — - Listeners: canvas vs applet - Selecting: isSelected, highlighting - Deleting shapes - Changing colors - Dragging / moving: mousePressed, mouseDragged, mouseReleased. Optimal: relative position - [...]