sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2013: Quantified Awesome feedback — I just realized that my feedback form on Quantified Awesome didn’t let people fill in their e-mail addresses, and people [...]
• 2012: Visual book review: Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument — I first read this book in October 2010 while scrambling to learn as much as I could about communication and [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending March 18, 2011 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Work on critsit involving AJAX and PHP [-] Deploy web services onto Websphere [...]
• 2010: Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud — We need better web presentations. There are so many opportunities out there. I think I can help more people learn [...]
• 2007: Sweet, caching works — Caching makes my search engine relatively responsive. Yay. I might just be able to make a decent prototype after all… Random Emacs [...]
• 2007: Argh, deliveries — So the books I ordered from Amazon are here, but the DHL person couldn’t drop them off this morning because no [...]
• 2006: Tango party and stuff — I visited the hospital again. Lasagna is apparently not a good idea as it gets cold pretty quickly, and it depends [...]
• 2006: Well-spent Sunday — I baked chocolate chip cookies for my hospital-bound friend today, and we had a lot of fun at an impromptu party [...]
• 2005: Turning my mind to money — “What? Sacha’s going mercenary?” No, I’m still very much into free software and I’m still definitely not going for easy-money stuff like [...]
• 2005: Business book: You Can Negotiate Anything — Today I finished reading Herb Cohen’s You Can Negotiate Anything: How to Get What You Want. Its main points were: Almost everything [...]
• 2003: scrabble game — Just finished two games of Scrabble. The first I played with Mom and my sister Kathy. Mom nearly outscored me [...]
• 2003: emacs-wiki and automatic publishing — I use this nifty LISP snippet to automatically publish my pages whenever I save. (add-hook 'emacs-wiki-mode-hook (lambda () (add-hook 'after-save-hook (lambda [...]
• 2003: dear_raed blog: stories from within Iraq — http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/ is an interesting blog that gives you a feel of what it’s like in Iraq.