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On This Day...

• 2013: Monthly review: January 2013 — Last month, I wrote: What could January look like? I’d like to: create lots of value for my consulting clients start the [...]
• 2012: Learning research skills — How do students learn how to research information for school: how to ask questions, find resources, take notes, paraphrase, organize, [...]
• 2011: Disagreement and the road to trusting yourself — I’m glad whenever I find myself disagreeing with someone. Sometimes I change my mind, learning more in the process. Sometimes [...]
• 2011: Monthly review: January 2011 — 2011 was off to a great start. Lots of Drupal work, a conference, and a new project lined up. I [...]
• 2010: Moving from testing to development — One of my coworkers asked me for advice on shifting from a testing role to development. Inside IBM, cross-role [...]
• 2007: Fully booked — Wow, I have social activities booked for the next two weeks. This will be interesting. Random Emacs symbol: define-key – Function: In [...]
• 2007: Scored a power adapter! — See, this is why I have two phones… one’s a backup! The Motorola PEBL isn’t as nice as my Nokia, though, [...]
• 2007: Off the phone network — I seem to have left my Nokia phone adapter in the Philippines. If you’ve been trying to reach me at +1 [...]
• 2007: Level up! — My kitchen cupboard is organized again, or at least as well-organized as it can be given that I have to cram [...]
• 2007: What was I thinking? — Why on earth was I feeling frustrated with my thesis? One day on the IBM intranet, and I’m full of energy [...]
• 2007: Day 1 — My thesis is getting off the ground. Yay! I’ve *so* much to catch up on. I don’t have to make up [...]
• 2007: Made my own lunch today! — Brought two grilled cheese sandwiches that I made this morning. This is good. I should time it next time… Random Emacs [...]
• 2007: I have so much reading to catch up on! — This is good. I think I’m going to be an introvert for a while. So many books and blogs to read, [...]
• 2007: Hmm. Problem. — No adapter for cellphone. No alarm clock. Hmm. Random Emacs symbol: menu-bar-ediff-misc-menu – Function: Prefix command (definition is a keymap associating keystrokes with [...]
• 2007: Democamp was lots of fun — After I unpacked and put away all my stuff, I headed to No Regrets to catch Democamp, Toronto’s awesome techscene get-together. [...]
• 2006: Traditions — I wore a kimona and patadyong today. (Sorry, no pictures!) It’s one of the traditional costumes of the Philippines. Hardly anyone [...]
• 2006: CookOrDie: Meatball mishaps — Today I discovered what meatballs taste like if I use too much bread to extend the ground beef. I’m definitely going [...]
• 2004: CleverCS — From Amir on Orkut: CleverCS is a forum for clever computer science ideas, particularly in more applied areas. The emphasis is [...]