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On This Day...

• 2013: Visual book review: Blue Ocean Strategy–W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne — Most business books focus on beating the competition. Blue Ocean Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 2005) focuses on breaking out [...]
• 2012: Quantified Awesome: Community-supported agriculture with Plan B Organic Farms, fall 2011 — After a good summer season with Plan B Organic Farms, we decided to sign up for their fall season as [...]
• 2011: Sick days — Still sick. Flush with a fever, congested with a cough and a cold, voiceless, and all around under the weather. [...]
• 2010: Book: Rules for Revolutionaries — Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and ServicesGuy Kawasaki, 2000 The most relevant [...]
• 2009: Craftsmanship — One of the interesting things that came up during the dinner party conversation with Pete Forde’s friends was the lack [...]
• 2009: “What are you planning to do in 2009?”, or thoughts about #lifecamptoronto — I’d been meaning to hold a lifehacking-oriented BarCamp since early last year. Timing is particularly good over the next two [...]
• 2009: Sleeping Cats — Being a geek means you can let sleeping cats lie. Thanks to W- for being so awesome!
• 2008: More progress — Yay, I finished my writing goal for the day! Tomorrow’s a busy day. I have two conference calls, a client meeting, [...]
• 2008: Projects in Emacs Org — Introduction Organizing your tasks into projects can help you plan ahead, track your progress, and stay motivated. Working from a project list [...]
• 2007: Ay, my dad… Fireworks! — My dad sounded *so* disappointed earlier! He trudged up the stairs and said, “Sacha, I’m so sad…” I looked up from my [...]
• 2007: Checking my financial course — I must be doing something right if my mom’s financial advisor is impressed by my planning. ;) We visited Tina at the [...]
• 2007: You only live once! — … and each night is as important as every other night, and each day is as important as every other day. I’m [...]
• 2007: Still getting horrible packet loss for international sites — 0% packet loss to www.pldt.com.ph, 71% packet loss to www.google.com. The international links are still broken. ARGH. Good thing my dad has [...]
• 2007: My alma mater is t3h c00l — I heard from Gabby Dizon that Ateneo de Manila University will use the popular cross-platform roleplaying game Neverwinter Nights to [...]
• 2007: The secret to waking up early — Woke up at 6 today. It’s getting easier and easier. I discovered the secret to waking up early! Sleep in the same [...]
• 2007: No ACM! — Oh no! I tried using the ACM Digital Library through my library access earlier, and I couldn’t get full-text access. I’ve sent [...]
• 2005: Luxury — The onsen had a wine bath. Wine! With that and the different kinds of saunas, my head feels finda fuzzy… But [...]
• 2004: Family businesses — My parents both work in advertising photography. My father is one of the most famous commercial photographers in the country. My [...]
• 2004: Reading exercises — Another major hack for this month would be the collection of at least 25 code-reading exercises covering basic Java syntax. This [...]
• 2004: Monthly hacks: vc-arch.el — I will finish at least one major hack per month. This month’s special is vc-arch.el, which for some reason does not [...]
• 2004: emacs-wiki-id.el — ../emacs/emacs-wiki/emacs-wiki-id.el contains a first attempt at an ID system for emacs-wiki and indeed is quite nice. Following IDs works. I’ll figure out [...]
• 2004: Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective — Playing on my strengths as all-around puzzler-out of weird software, perhaps I should explore software archaeology and code reading a bit more. [...]
• 2004: emacs-wiki sites — In fit of insanity, searched for sites that used emacs-wiki. Quite a list. - http://www.self-core.org/~kaoru-k/wiki/EmacsWiki.html - http://larve.net/people/hugo/2003/scratchpad/EmacsWiki.html (has RSS) - http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk/planner/EmacsWiki.html (uses planner) - [...]
• 2004: Emacs-wiki community wiki — http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/SiteMap Didn’t know there was something like this – or that we now enjoy near links in oddmuse. What a cute feature!
• 2004: Blogging is alive and well under Emacs — in reaction to http://www.sfu.ca/~gswamina/BlogsAreDead.html I’ve had a blog for roughly a year and a half now, and I think I’m pretty much [...]
• 2004: Emacs-wiki and RSS feeds — http://www.sfu.ca/~gswamina/EmacsWikiPatches.html . Check this out sometime and steal all the cool ideas (with appropriate credit, of course). ;)