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On This Day...

• 2013: Things I value unequally — I was talking to someone who taught a class at Trade School Toronto. To enable more people to access education, [...]
• 2011: A braindump of tips for other new immigrants from the Philippines — For Anna Simbulan (welcome to Toronto!) and others this can help along the way. =) Winter and clothing [...]
• 2010: Gifts and graphs: visualization and gift-giving — Many talents might be skills in disguise. For example, my sister Kathy has a flair for giving personal gifts, while [...]
• 2009: Braindump of conference networking tips — I enjoyed reading Jeff Widman’s interview about networking tips. It reminded me of my rants about the “you’re just a [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending January 25, 2009 — The sore throat from last week transformed into a nasty cold. Fortunately, working from home meant I was just as [...]
• 2008: Time management and work boundaries —   [Never Wrestle With A Pig]: McCormack addresses time management here, making several astute points. The biggest one – and the one [...]
• 2008: Speech recognition – a month of fun — I hadn’t expected speech recognition to be this much fun. Something magical happens when I take my fingers off the [...]
• 2008: Taking it Offline — This was a week of online encounters becoming offline ones. I had lunch with Heidi Hansen, a librarian from Ann [...]
• 2008: Library book reminder script – Perl geeking required — W- and I borrow lots of books from the library. This script helps keep order in the house by reminding [...]
• 2008: Yak shaving with OpenOffice.org — Fiddly little editing tasks are driving me mad. Formatting all the keyboard shortcuts as EmphasisBold and the command names as [...]
• 2007: Welcome to the world, Alexander Nolan! — He’s *adorable.* Yay Jen and Chris! Random Emacs symbol: w3m-add-local-hook – Function: Add to the buffer-local value of HOOK the function [...]
• 2007: It’s almost time to leave — Tomorrow I begin packing for my trip back to Canada. I don’t know how I’ll fit all of the Philippine handicrafts [...]
• 2005: Ranulf head of Manila chapter of International Game Designers Association; Eric head of acads — From http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=25520 Ranulf Goss, a support specialist from the Philippine office of anti-virus firm Trend Micro, was named the new chairman of [...]
• 2005: THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM, 55-word flash fiction — Burnt the toast. Charred black, three days in a row. He didn’t yell, didn’t leave; just laughed and told me he’d [...]
• 2004: Wearable computing — - http://www.pdalive.com/showarticle.php?threadid=5052
• 2004: Tech writing — http://neptune.spacebears.com/opine/style.html
• 2004: Wearable computing article — http://www.theclockmag.com/wearablecomputers.html
• 2004: Letter to doctex — Thank you for the opportunity to be of help. We will concentrate on the scheduled updates system first so that the [...]
• 2004: Use cases for scheduled updates — Encoder - check list of unmet requirements - check off a requirement - add/edit/remove a person - add/edit/remove a requirement JesuitInformationSystem
• 2004: Java and Linux — http://community.java.net/linux/ E-Mail from Melvin Dave P. Vivas
• 2004: Other links — - Tala’s blog: http://tala-star.tripod.com/links.html ../../sitelogs/sacha.free.net.ph-access_log.3
• 2004: Resuming CookOrDie — CookOrDie will resume on Monday.
• 2004: Interesting links — - http://www.ijbo.com/~alex/Wiki/notes/bookmark.xht - http://mistervader.blogspot.com/ – a few posts about me - http://free.net.ph/Members/tuko/index_html/view (JM Ibanez) - http://www.livejournal.com/users/monicai – Monica Isaac discovering open-source software [...]
• 2004: TheologicalQuestions — Apparently, some people can find that funny… <laugh> I can’t help it! People find even my _serious_ stuff amusing!
• 2004: Ganesh Swami responds — Looks like some people found my write-up of blogging in Emacs useful. Yeah, sure, coffee or hot chocolate sometime. =) http://www.sfu.ca/~gswamina/2004.01.01.html (Whee! He [...]
• 2004: iKnow — iKnow is a personal knowledge processor, a tool for bringing order to collections of information and for revealing relationships between pieces of [...]
• 2004: “Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites” — Electronic bookmarks were hailed as a premier tool for recalling Web sites and pages important to users, but their use has [...]
• 2004: “Disabled to Get Greater Access to Linux” — The Free Standards Group says it has established a task force to develop accessibility standards for Linux. Scott McNeil, executive [...]
• 2004: CS1 assignments in Java — I’ve developed a Java library for my CS1 course that SIGCSE members may be interested in using for assignments. It includes: - [...]
• 2004: USB-powered head-mounted device — - http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/products/aero/hmd/dg-a.html - http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/products/aero/hmd/what1.html Also from the wear-hard mailing list: E-Mail from Steve Barr
• 2004: Gesture-based interfaces overview — http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/fw/287415 From the wear-hard mailing list: E-Mail from Steve Barr