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On This Day...

• 2012: A day of gardening — We rehabilitated the front and back planter boxes, mixing in plenty of composted cow manure into the sandy soil. I [...]
• 2011: How I organize my personal finances — Update: I found the image! Mia is learning more about personal finance. She came across my post on my financial network [...]
• 2011: Four-day weekend ahead — Today is Canada Day. Monday is a floater day for IBMers in Ontario. (IBM uses floater days to balance out [...]
• 2010: Tools, big companies, and collaboration — I love building tools. I love making hard or tedious things easy. I could build tools all day. A big [...]
• 2009: Hobby day holiday — I spent Canada Day indulging in hobbies that benefit from concentrated time. It was terrific! I started the day by sewing [...]
• 2009: Recent photos — 20090701
• 2009: Combining multiple social media services — If you’re new to social media and Web 2.0, you probably feel overwhelmed by all the different tools that are [...]
• 2009: Thinking of a travel dossier — I usually spend the evening before a flight putting together a travel dossier. It includes: a map of the route from [...]
• 2008: Enough time: a new hire’s reflections — After one of the new hires read my blog, she asked me, "How do you find the time to do [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — I really enjoyed the Ottawa Linux Symposium because of the hallway conversations and the afterparties that I attended. The conference [...]
• 2006: Purposeful interaction — I realized yesterday that one of my weaknesses is that I’m usually more reactive than proactive when it comes to interacting [...]
• 2006: Turning downtime into uptime — One of the reasons why I wanted a Blackberry or some other portable device was to make better use of [...]
• 2005: Working with Emacs — A recent post on the Philippine Linux Users’ Group suggested a separate plug-emacs mailing lists for all the Emacs messages that [...]
• 2004: Brainbench — Just in case you want to get certified but don’t want to shell out the bucks for it, Brainbench is making [...]
• 2004: “Students Create Global Positioning System Text Messages” — A trio of Iowa State University computer science students has devised “spatial cues,” a computer program that combines text messaging with [...]
• 2004: The Open Technology Landscape — Juebert Uriarte — Technical consultant, Sun Microsystems Philippines, Inc. “Open source, open standards, open systems – a recipe for open government” - Put a little [...]
• 2004: Message from the Sponsors: Antonio TJ Javier — “Partnering with Government to Realize Potential” — - Objective: Perspective of what we’re supposed to be deing here. - Mission: Enable people and businesses threghout the world to [...]
• 2004: Message from the Sponsors: Cynthia Mamon — - Historic event: partnering with Microsoft to help develop the Philippines to be a globally competitive country. - Brief background. Doing it [...]
• 2004: Government CIO Forum — - Yay! I don’t have to do it. Rommel Feria is here to save the day! - Extemia is a free [...]