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On This Day...

• 2013: Things I’m learning about sharing other people’s knowledge, or why you should show me what you’ve been meaning to teach others — Many conferences don’t record sessions or share videos promptly, so I was delighted to find that the Emacs Conference 2013 [...]
• 2012: Decision review: Got the Lenovo battery slice for my X220 tablet — I’ve been thinking about getting an Android tablet so that I can draw more at conferences and around town. My [...]
• 2011: Math study group: Positive and negative numbers — It was Friday, so J- and her friends were singing the Friday song as they hung up their coats and [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending April 11, 2010 — From last week’s plans: Plans for this week: Work [X] Follow up on Idea Lab [X] Update enablement plan [X] [...]
• 2009: Weekly report: Week ending April 12, 2009 — From last week’s plans: Clear up Transition2 issues Production seems to be stable now, and development on the next version has [...]
• 2008: That’s my dad! — Beauty is in eye of autistic youth – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos He has come up with “the kind [...]
• 2008: Faster mail with Emacs — I spent a few minutes getting offlineimap to synchronize my Gmail messages with dovecot, an IMAP server on my laptop. [...]
• 2008: Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Import CSV and vCard Files — If you have many contacts in another address book program, you can import them into BBDB. Two popular formats are [...]
• 2008: Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Work with Records — Creating Records Creating a record in BBDB is not like creating a record in graphical address book programs. You will be [...]
• 2008: Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB — The main address book and contact management module for Emacs is the Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB), which can be [...]
• 2007: Filed my taxes — I’ve triple-checked my tax return and uploaded it to the government website. Here goes! I should get my refund soon. The [...]
• 2007: Priming my brain — I downloaded more than a hundred research papers today to catch up on my literature review and prime my brain for [...]
• 2007: I actually have a project — In the middle of explaining my thesis project to a usability expert at IBM, I realized that I *have* actually managed [...]
• 2006: Backlog: TLUG — I caught the tail end of the Toronto Linux Users Group get-together at the GSI pub last Tuesday, and I’m really [...]
• 2006: Stirfry with Mike Tsang — Mike wanted to know how to cook the sugar peas we received in last week’s Good Food Box, so I suggested [...]
• 2005: Open source and developers — raichu wrote on clair’s blog: and why code based on your imagination when you can rip off someone else’s code for [...]
• 2003: Mario Carreon has a website: http://www.engg.upd.edu.ph/~mario/ — Note: send him some HTML and CSS tutorial links.
• 2003: Teaching ideas — education — Post mortems Tutorials – off-class tutorials
• 2003: UP thesis related to text summarization — research — From 2003.03.28: Automated Newspaper Article Summarizer Description: Limited to online World News text articles only, this summarizer utilizes the algorithms presented by R. [...]