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On This Day...

• 2013: Building bridges to geekiness — On the #emacs channel, aidalgol asked me if people ever looked at me as if I were crazy because of [...]
• 2012: Optimizing for weather and other thoughts about self-employed time — Over a leisurely mentoring lunch, @height8 shared this interesting self-employment tip with me: optimize your schedule for weather. Warm and [...]
• 2012: Getting the hang of making time for business development — This week, I’m taking Monday afternoon off, and all day Friday. The client wins because we can spread the hours [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending April 15, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Doublecheck mail, implement feedback for project C [X] Follow up on Idea Labs [...]
• 2010: Thinking about mentoring — One of my mentors invited me along on client interviews with one of my mentors. He took notes while I [...]
• 2009: One stick figure’s day — It’s been a while since I posted a sketch!
• 2007: Looking at the puzzle pieces — My life is giving me bits and pieces of something that’s worth thinking about. Piece: Introducing J earlier to the joys of [...]
• 2007: Falling in love with poetry: Viva Shel Silverstein! — J was reading a book on smoking because she had vowed never to smoke and she wanted to learn more about [...]
• 2007: Being Filipino — One of the things J- did this weekend was visit a Filipino family (A-’s). J said she had four bowls [...]
• 2005: Wonderful chat — Had a wonderful chat with Ranulf and Marcelle. フランス語のＣＨＡＴは英語のＣＡＴを意味する。 The French word `chat’ means `cat’ On Technorati: friends, barkada
• 2004: Got my FSF papers back! — I’m now an official contributor and my part of ERC can be merged into GNU Emacs eventually. Yay!
• 2004: Scheduling tasks in the diary — (defun sacha/planner-diary-schedule-task (time) "Add a diary entry for the current task at TIME." (interactive "MTime: ") (save-window-excursion [...]
• 2003: Free software in education — education — - http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse.pl?SiteMap - http://www.seul.org/edu/report93.html - freenode#fsedu
• 2003: Free.net.ph mail still broken? — I don’t have access to my sacha@free.net.ph account and I’ll be out this weekend anyway.
• 2003: Leaving for Daet at midnight — Leaving for a surfing weekend. Well, my sister’s definitely planning on surfing. Me? I’ll probably be working on the CurriculumReview#WelcomePage.
• 2003: Tense changed. — From now on, planner page stories will be written in past tense whenever appropriate. Present tense just sounded too weird. Old planner [...]
• 2003: Debian Developers — Unfortunately there’s a Debian Developer named “sacha”, so I guess I’ll have to settle for sachac if ever…
• 2003: Debian Developers in the Philippines — None yet. Hmmm.
• 2003: Debian packaging — Okay, planner-el_1.90-1_all.deb passes lintian checks and builds with debbuild. Yay! Now to figure out what to do next..
• 2003: Debian package: glark for searching text files — glark supports Perl-compatible regexes, match highlighting, complex expressions and exclusion of non-text files.
• 2003: Combining PDFs — Torquil Macdonald on the debian-user mailing list says that http://www.pdfeverywhere.com/pdfmerge.tar.gz and http://www.pdfeverywhere.com/pdfsplit.tar.gz can be used to merge several PDFs into one big one.