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On This Day...

• 2012: Decision: No Illustrator CS6 for now — I wanted to like Adobe Illustrator CS6. I really did. I’ve been looking for a vector drawing tool that could [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending December 23, 2011 — We’ve been enjoying a quiet holiday weekend with plenty of long walks and cooking. There are seventeen containers of beef [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending December 24, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Work on Project M and Project S [-] Post year-end reflections [...]
• 2009: Getting ready for a long trip — My flight is at 1 PM tomorrow. I’ve checked and re-checked my luggage weight, reviewed my list of things to [...]
• 2009: Gifts — Christmas gift-giving tends to be a little stressful for me. My defence used to be that holidays shouldn’t be about [...]
• 2008: 2008: Annus Mirabilis — IMG { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; } P { clear: both } What an incredible year! We took two trips to Manila: [...]
• 2007: Some of my favorite quotes — “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks [...]
• 2007: Publishing my Org agenda to my blog — Some people like reading my task list. No, I don’t know why, either. =) But it’s up again, just in case you [...]
• 2007: Get a grip on your tasks — Most time management books will tell you to think of your three- to five-year goals, come up with projects, and then [...]
• 2006: Also, Freeciv is darn cool — Not the kind of thing that I can easily play on my computer, but I think we just might enjoy sinking [...]
• 2006: Water — It’s easier to drink plenty of water when you’re sweating rivers of it. =) Random Emacs symbol: occur-mode-map – Variable: Keymap [...]
• 2006: Home; between two worlds — Prophet of God, in quest of the uttermost, long have you searched the distances for your ship. And now your ship has [...]
• 2006: Carefully unfolding — Maybe I don’t have to highlight it explicitly. Maybe I can just keep sharing good stories. Maybe I can just choose [...]
• 2006: How to tell when your parents are addicted to the Internet — I think my parents spend more time on the Internet than I am. Seriously. My parents are hooked on these online [...]
• 2006: I am -so- blogging that — My mom at the breakfast table: “Sacha, do you remember that conversation between Kathy and your dad last night?” She remembered wanting [...]
• 2006: Quiet — I’m quieter than I remembered, than I hoped. The stories I most want to tell, the unbloggable things I still need [...]
• 2005: Learning photography — My dad’s been teaching me how to shoot. =) Check out my pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sachac ! Covering all the bases Meow On [...]
• 2005: Catching up with mail — Over a thousand messages. Hooray for Gnus and adaptive scoring! Happy holidays, folks! =) It’s good to be home.
• 2005: Social bookmarking in the Philippines — Check out http://www.oks.ph , a Philippine social news site along the lines of digg.com . Stories are bookmarked and voted on [...]
• 2004: smbmount — sudo mount -t smbfs -o codepage=cp932,iocharset=utf8 //172.17.1.1/common\ _files mnt smbmount japanese codepage conversion failure