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On This Day...

• 2013: Appreciating people — I’ve been thinking about friendship as one of those things that I want to deliberately get better at through practice [...]
• 2012: Experience report: Applying for a Harmonized Sales Tax account — In Canada, corporations are required to collect and remit Harmonized Sales Tax if their revenues are over $30,000 in a [...]
• 2010: On vintage portaits and wedding photography — With my dad and my sister both professional photographers, I have a deep appreciation for the way pictures can bring [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2008: Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way out of a Job… and Into a Career — Blog for FREE on wordpress.com or blogger.com! Make a habit of writing at least once a week, and your blog [...]
• 2007: For the win! — I *like* this feeling. Rowr! I called up the property management building for the apartment I’m renting starting March. I wanted to [...]
• 2006: Debian’s still alive! — What do you know… Debian’s still accepting applications after all! =) I just got e-mail from the Debian Account Manager, months [...]
• 2006: Insulated — For all the chaos and turmoil rocking the Philippines—from natural disasters like the landslide that buried a village to man-made disasters like [...]
• 2006: Hooray for Ateneo! — Didith Rodrigo has plenty of great news: Google’s sponsoring the students’ trip to the ACM finals again! Hooray! Numerous contests here and [...]
• 2006: Snuggling up — Check out Accordion Guy’s post about snuggling up. It’s soooo cuuuuuute! =)
• 2005: Stock photography — http://www.indexstock.com is an online stock photography service. Check out the guidelines. I think this is a good service for us to look [...]
• 2005: File transfers: Xdrive — Xdrive looks like a promising way to transfer files between clients. It’s an additional USD 9.95 a month for 5 GB. If [...]
• 2004: Better font-locking in emacs-wiki — If you’re having problems with emacs-wiki not highlighting the first time you view a buffer, you’re probably set to use jit-lock [...]
• 2004: Ledger — Depends: libxmltok1 libpcre3 libgmp3 Build-deps: libxmltok1-dev libpcre3-dev libgmp3-dev
• 2004: Better! — Finally got emacs-wiki highlighting just the way I want it. Apparently, it bypasses the normal font-lock thing. Changes: I made the example [...]
• 2004: emacs-wiki and the example tag — I firmly believe that stuff in example tags should not get marked up on the page, and may have to fiddle [...]
• 2004: Bah, unrelated repositories — * patching for this revision (mark@dishevelled.net--2003-mst/emacs-wiki--dev--1.0--patch-1) star-merge: unable to merge unrelated trees.
• 2004: Public key needed for XEmacs packages — I was getting “Couldn’t check signature” errors on XEmacs. I uncommented the mailto keyserver in my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and now things work. The [...]
• 2004: planner.el goodness — Andrew Laing wrote: I think the work you put into Planner et al is fantastic. I have spent quite a bit of [...]
• 2003: some comments about my outfit — Apparently, a short black velvet dress and a brilliant red-and-yellow obi-style belt is sufficiently unusual that it draws comments from the other [...]
• 2003: departmental award for computer science — It looks like my chances for getting it are very, very slim, because I’ve got a D
• 2003: thesis defense — Thesis defense on Monday, 2:00 – 2:30. Dr. Vergara, Ma’am Estuar, Dr. Sarmenta
• 2003: rescheduling classes — Dr. Sarmenta’s thinking of giving me back the CS21B. He needs to confirm with Sir Marco. I don’t know where Sir [...]