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On This Day...

• 2012: My digital sketchnoting workflow — Mike Rohde’s The Sketchnote Handbook (see my sketchnotes of it) focuses on pen-and-paper sketchnoting. I really enjoy digital sketchnoting, although [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: #ENT101 Meet the Enterpreneurs: Social Innovation – Izzy Camillieri, IZ Adaptive; Kaela Bree, AussieX; Dessy Daskalav, Greengage Mobile — This sketchnote was captured live during the free MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series (webcast and in-person session every Wednesday). Feel free [...]
• 2012: Experiment pre-mortem: Imagining and dealing with causes of failure — I am, for the most part, a relentless optimist. I embrace my inner Pollyanna. I regularly explore my goals with [...]
• 2011: Quantified Awesome: Thinking about what I want to build next — One of the best ways to make the most of those little pockets of time is to keep a someday [...]
• 2010: Happy Holidays, Eh! First edition greeting card giveaway — Skip my VistaPrint review and go straight to the giveaway Last week, I thought: hey, what would a Canadian Christmas [...]
• 2009: Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101 — Click on the image to view a larger version. Next actions: Post notes Practice with podcasts, webcasts, books, and teleconferences [...]
• 2008: Drupal and return on sharing — Another IBMer sent me an instant message out of the blue and introduced himself as a fellow Drupal developer. I [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Changing module behavior without changing the source code — For the project I’m currently working on, I’m not allowed to make any changes to third-party source code. Yes, I’ve [...]
• 2008: Twitter, Whuffie, and Amazing Connections — Thanks to Don Marti’s post about a possible business model for Twitter, I came across Tara Hunt’s post about Twitter, [...]
• 2007: The evils of blur — I left my purse at the Bay food court at around 1:30 this afternoon. When I realized this at 5:00, I [...]
• 2007: Story: Connecting through social computing — Let me tell you about a recent example of how social computing can help us form better relationships with our [...]
• 2006: 50 e-mail messages today — Okay, my fingers are tired. No more e-mail. =) Someday I’m going to have to learn how to scale, but today [...]
• 2006: Inbox meter — I should have one of those almost-real-time inbox meters that count the number of messages I’ve promised to respond to. That [...]
• 2006: Found my vertical: HR — I ran into Pete Forde at Andrew Burke‘s birthday party last night. He explained to a number of Andrew’s friends in other [...]
• 2006: Personal contact relationship management — It’s a good thing that computer geeks appreciate automation. They can sniff out form e-mail in seconds, but they don’t mind [...]
• 2006: Programming competitions — I always love reading Didith Rodrigo’s blog posts about programming competitions and my alma mater, Ateneo de Manila University. Her [...]
• 2005: Scrabble — In between review sessions for my final exam tomorrow, I managed to play Scrabble with Steve (Biology) and Mike (Math). Much [...]
• 2004: On the Map — http://www.onthemap.com.ph : street-level Flash-based map site for the Philippines. Nifty. Thanks to Dominique for the link!
• 2004: Novell Linux-Certified Professional — Dominique‘s the first Novell Linux-Certified Professional in the Philippines. He doesn’t want to gloat on his blog. I, however, can gloat all [...]
• 2003: Game development in Japan — Hee Soo Lee’s thinking of going for game development in Japan. Way cool. =) E-Mail from Soo Lee
• 2003: Printer works again — Apparently, they made it a printer server. Yay!