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On This Day...

• 2013: Moving my memory outside my brain — I don’t trust my memory. One way to deal with this is to force myself to use it more, like [...]
• 2012: Notes from the Ontario Science Centre field trip — W- and I volunteered for the school’s field trip to the Ontario Science Centre. On the bus ride [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending January 31, 2010 — From last week’s plans: Work [/] Capture lessons learned [X] Create overview visuals [/] Revise wiki structure [X] [...]
• 2010: Always look on the bright side of life —   The winter chill is tough. But it does mean that pork and vegetable wontons, buns, and other frozen food are [...]
• 2009: Kitty TV — Peanuts sprinkled outside glass door + squirrels + cats = fun for everyone
• 2009: Lessons from LifeCamp — I had a great time organizing and learning from LifeCampTO at Linux Caffe on January 31, 2009. We started at [...]
• 2008: Juggling; paperwork — All of this is extracurricular work. My day job is going well, too. One of the challenges than figuring out [...]
• 2008: Two tweaks = a great writing day — This was a very good writing day. I wrote 2256 words for my book, Wicked Cool Emacs, filling in the [...]
• 2008: xkcd: Real programmers use Emacs — From xkcd Thanks to Jean-Francois Arsenault!
• 2008: Notes along the way — The subway floor is slick with muddy footprints. It’s crowded, so I sandwich my backpack between my feet and take [...]
• 2007: Job search? Company search! — I figured out what I really, really, really want to do as my next job. I’m a perfect fit for it, [...]
• 2007: I won’t be part of the brain drain — It’ll be easy for me to establish myself abroad. I have to keep my ties to the Philippines strong. If I [...]
• 2007: Home — Most people take vacations to escape reality. I took this vacation to get back in touch with it. It’s been a [...]
• 2007: My cat — My cat’s generally psychotic nature can be explained by the fact that when we found her, she was this ant-covered starving [...]
• 2006: Toastmasters — Good to be back in Toastmasters. For the table topics game, I asked people to tell me what they liked the [...]
• 2006: Metadata course — It’s a good thing I read about Dublin Core, FOAF, and other wonderful Web-based stuff before! =) I’m not _too_ out [...]
• 2006: Happy socks — I woke up terribly lonely today, so I wore happy socks. That gave me an idea for another Toastmaster speech to [...]
• 2005: Weekend with dds and Ben — dds and his friend Ben came up to Tokyo last weekend, and I had tons of fun hanging out with them. We [...]
• 2004: Ragnarok Online in Linux — Zak said: Ragnarok Online… … in GNU/Linux… … does work ;) Proof? Here’s a screenshot: http://zakame.spunge.org/shots/Screenshot-Ragnarok.png I did this using wine-cvs. The game is installed in [...]
• 2004: Party reflections — Had Diane, Dominique, Jerome, Marcelle, Martin, Peppy and Sean over for dinner and conversation at our house. Tons of fun, although [...]