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On This Day...

• 2013: Lists and actions: Learning how to hack my way around the impostor syndrome — Since even highly successful women can struggle with the impostor syndrome (research), it’s worth figuring out how to hack your [...]
• 2011: Get More Value from Blogging, part III: Sharing Makes the Blog Go ‘Round — Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging on March 3, 2011 [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending February 25, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Sketch ITSC keynote by David Zach [X] Give ITSC keynote on [...]
• 2010: The Shy Presenter: braindumping an introvert’s guide to public speaking — Why speak You’ll learn even more about your topic You’ll meet lots of people without having to start the conversation You can make [...]
• 2009: Your subconscious is your friend — What do you dream about? I often have vivid dreams about upcoming important events. If I have a presentation the next [...]
• 2008: Headless chicken impression — Today is not my day. As it turns out, my presentation on “Blogging Your Way Out of a Job… and Into [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2007: Nightmares — I’m still a little sore from krav maga last Sunday. I don’t think it’s just the strain, although I’ll stretch more [...]
• 2007: Walking science museum — Wayne’s daughter was with him last week, and I enjoyed spending time with both of them. It was a great way [...]
• 2007: Krav maga — One of the things my mom occasionally reminds me about is the need for self-defense classes. Yes, even in Toronto. Not [...]
• 2007: Adhesion — I either can’t or don’t want to move. I’m not inclined to figure out which right now. I think chores will [...]
• 2007: Tango — I haven’t danced tango in a year. Hadn’t realized how much I’d missed it until today, when I decided to [...]
• 2006: Three hours delay and that’s okay — The US Airways commuter flight to Toronto is over three hours delayed. That’s okay, because you can just _hear_ the smile [...]
• 2006: Happy birthday to Clair! — I owe my exciting research opportunities to many people, not the least of whom is a librarian friend of mine [...]
• 2005: Also saw Diane today! — Yay yay yay yay! Missed her greatly. She beat Dominique at thumb-wrestling, so he still doesn’t have her complete approval… On Technorati: [...]
• 2005: Tons of fun — Clair Ching‘s birthday party was tons of fun. The scavenger hunt in UP was more of a leisurely stroll around famous UP [...]
• 2004: Umbrella.net: Ad hoc social networks — http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/02/24/umbrellanet_ad_hoc_social_networks.php E-Mail from Jason Banico
• 2004: Brilliant idea! — Global planner IDs should be hyperlinks in their own right. They are of the form plan://id-number or plan://id-number/page,page,page,page But then how do we [...]
• 2004: Thoughts on planner-notes — Actually, subcategories are already handled by separate plan pages, so I don’t need subtopics any more. I would, however, like to [...]
• 2004: Nifty ideas for PlannerMode — - A list of all the notes related to a BBDB contact. I’d have to parse out all the bbdb links, [...]
• 2004: Oooh, Emacs ubercoder status — sachac: want to take over emacs-wiki? sachac: damien handed it off to somebody else, but I think you would [...]
• 2004: ERC bot enhancements — I should add a hook that parses channel messages, extracts keywords, runs them through my database and populates a circular queue [...]
• 2004: Linux Installfest at Mapua IT Center — When: March 4 to 5 (9 am to 6 pm) Where: Ground floor, East Wing Hallway, Mapua IT Center Building333 Sen. Gil Puyat [...]
• 2004: Linked list lecture postponed to Tuesday, March 2 — I have CS161 finals for seniors from 1:30 to 3:30 today, so please use class time to work on milestone 2. This [...]
• 2003: http://www.visibleworkings.com/archeology/ — OOPSLA 2001 Workshop Software Archeology: Understanding Large Systems How do you come to grips with 1,000,000 lines of code right away? Programmers are [...]
• 2003: sir olpoc — “I prefer the slow torture method of project defense.” “I deserve this! I don’t care if students see me.”
• 2003: fr. david 3381 —
• 2003: http://www.purl.org/net/sacha —
• 2003: polsci finals — I really, really hope I passed. flashcard.el is nice. Turns out I missed one handout (oops!) and some of those questions [...]