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On This Day...

• 2013: How I got started in investing — When I was growing up, I raided my mom’s bookshelves for whatever I could understand—and quite a few things that [...]
• 2012: Digital uncluttering: my backup and clean up plan — I organized my files, weeded out blurry photos, and thought about how I want to improve my workflow for input, [...]
• 2011: "An Easy Method for Beginners in Latin" and macron-insensitive search for Tiddlywiki — As previously mentioned, W- and I are re-typing parts of Albert Harkness’ 1822 textbook "An Easy Method for Beginners in [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending April 29, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Get Vijay up to speed on project C [X] Review code for project [...]
• 2010: Paper is the new PowerPoint — … and that’s a great thing. =) Check out these creative presentations by Betsy Streeter: Ten Great Uses for a Pencil How to [...]
• 2009: Tips for getting started with virtual assistance — People often ask me about my experiments with outsourcing to virtual assistants and my reasons for this experiment, and I’m [...]
• 2007: Okay, this is really annoying now — I’ve been trying to set up Scone as a proxy on my laptop, since I can’t run it on the prototype [...]
• 2006: Chicken breasts marinated in red wine vinegar — I invited myself over to Quinn Fung‘s place for dinner. <laugh> She had a mac and cheese casserole, so I [...]
• 2006: Awwwww! — I just picked up my mom’s care package including pretty earrings and a wonderful, wonderful, scribbled-on notebook with dedications from my friends… I [...]
• 2004: Andrea Bocelli — Skipping aikido today because it’s too close to the Andrea Bocelli concert tonight. My mom and I have tickets; not very [...]
• 2004: Preparation — Get a YHA card Get sheets Brisbane first Skytrans shuttle bus between transit center and airport (tel 3236 1000), fare 6.50 Getting around: Off-peak [...]
• 2003: Education versus training — education — http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid13_gci505309,00.html?FromTaxonomy=%2Fpr%2F284872
• 2003: Piled higher and deeper – more comics — http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=331
• 2003: Blog reaction: Filipino Open Source Developers — blog — Reply to http://www.spaceants.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/software/filoos-280403.writeback : Glad to say that students get to seriously work with Linux in Ateneo - you can thank Horatio [...]
• 2003: Cory Doctorow — Geek blog. Good read. Nice novels, too – and free. http://boingboing.net/
• 2003: Common Java errors — http://www.skylit.com/javamethods/appxf.html
• 2003: ruler-mode — Look! ruler-mode is pretty darn nifty. =)
• 2003: Gnus tidbits from NEWS — emacs — Gnus can display RSS newsfeeds as a newsgroup. To get started do `B nnrss RET RET’ in the Group buffer.
• 2003: gnus-dired-mode — emacs — Dired integration `gnus-dired-minor-mode’ installs key bindings in dired buffers to send a file as an attachment (`C-c C-a’), open a file using [...]