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On This Day...

• 2013: Analyzing my London trip decisions: What worked well? What can I improve? — Update: Fixed incomplete sentence regarding Google navigation – thanks to Geoffrey Wiseman for pointing it out! I’ve just come back from [...]
• 2012: Visual book review: Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion — Jay Heinrichs’ Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion [...]
• 2011: Starting up our garden — One of my gardening role models is the woman down the street who grows all sorts of vegetables in the [...]
• 2010: WordPress admin screen tweaks — A few months ago, I decided to experiment with publishing (mostly) one post a day, scheduling posts to go out [...]
• 2009: Thinking about making ridiculous amounts of money — You know it’s going to be an unusual meeting when your manager asks you if you can see yourself making [...]
• 2007: Krav and Evil Dead — Sunday sessions of krav maga are cancelled because the gym is being used for “Evil Dead – the Musical”. Thoughts of [...]
• 2007: Pinakbet — For dinner, W made pinakbet (Canadian style!). J didn’t like bitter melon at all, but bravely swallowed six pieces down. I’m [...]
• 2005: Just got back from a trip to Tagaytay — We went to Tagaytay for the afternoon so that the dogs could swim in the lake around Taal Volcano. Kathy pitched [...]
• 2005: Afternoon with Engels and Magie — I’ll be teaching a Linux Express course at http://www.bluepoint.com.ph from April 11 to 22. I had fun chatting with Engels and [...]
• 2005: Today: making the pitch — This morning, I attended a PESO seminar on entrepreneurship. This morning’s seminar was about making a good pitch to investors. The speakers [...]
• 2004: Subject: Sandra Jean Valentino Chua assigns past and future changes to ERC — Date: Sat Apr 3 01:57:43 2004 +0800 Hello, Your assignment process with the FSF is now complete and you will shortly receive [...]
• 2004: Multisync: a package for syncing personal information managers — http://multisync.sourceforge.net Package: multisync Description: A program to synchronize PIM data Synchronize calendars, addressbooks and other PIM data between programs on your [...]