sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: On developing a reputation for project work — Over lunch, Archie and I talked about one of his business goals for this year. He wanted to work on [...]
• 2010: I heart gardening — I used part of my dream fund to buy a 4’x2’ lean-to greenhouse. Right now, it’s sheltering our bitter [...]
• 2009: Riding on my bicycle; taking advantage of novelty — I spent the afternoon on my bicycle, taking care of errands and getting some exercise along the way. Or was [...]
• 2009: Seven tips for making better presentations — People often ask me how they can improve their presentation skills. Here are seven quick tips: Think about why you want [...]
• 2008: TLE 2008: I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us — Last Tuesday, April 8, I gave a presentation on “I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, [...]
• 2008: Don’t know where to start — When there are so many stories, it’s hard to know where to start. I have a few days on the ground [...]
• 2007: Immigration points — I’ve been checking out the paperwork I need in order to immigrate to Canada as a skilled worker. If I do [...]
• 2006: Paper penguin — My mom told me a totally warm-and-fuzzy story about paper penguins. Awwww! She loves me very, very, very much. =D On Technorati: [...]
• 2006: Done with FIS paper — I’m right smack against the upper page limit, too. Just _barely_ managed to cram it into 12 pages. I know I [...]
• 2006: Hacking my productivity — Still plugging away. Wow, I’ve been working on this for quite a while, and I don’t feel too fatigued yet. Here’s [...]
• 2005: Fixed the network connection — Celine was having terrible problems with her network connection. Initially I thought it was because Quickbooks couldn’t handle the cascaded switch configuration, [...]
• 2003: Okay, time for me to go to bed. — Much Emacs hackery and learning. A fair amount of Googling for answers. And the confirmation of my summer class. Quite a day.
• 2003: Emacs strokes — emacs — You know, I really should check out stroke mode under Emacs for sheer coolness factor.
• 2003: I’ll be teaching this summer! — Marco Changho informs me of my schedule as a new faculty member. Ok, Sacha. We'll have you aboard in the [...]
• 2003: Sampizcat, canna and kinput2 — I was tracking down a Redhat Japanese language support problem for someone on #linuxhelp. Sampizcat wanted to turn off the kana-kanji conversion, [...]
• 2003: Aadisht Khanna (http://aadisht.net) and text summarization — Aadisht Khanna is working on text summarization for a school project. Interesting area. You can drop him a line at aadisht@aadisht.net if [...]
• 2003: The (Mis)adventures of Catastrophix continue… — cat — She’s developing quite an appetite, although she still persists in attempting to swim through her food. She’s grooming herself now!
• 2003: Blogger code — My blogger code, from http://www.leatheregg.com/cgi-local/bloggercode.cgi: B5 d- t++ k- s+ u— f+ i++ o+ x- e l c—
• 2003: Emacs-wiki and httpd problem — yvonne on freenode#emacs reports a problem using emacs-wiki.el and httpd.el; I thought I had reproduced it earlier, but it disappeared. No idea [...]
• 2003: The Linux Documentation Project needs you! — http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html is the list of unmaintained HOWTOs. Gain some free software karma by helping out! =)
• 2003: John Wiegley’s new homepage: http://www.emacswiki.org/johnw/ — John Wiegley, the author of planner.el, remember.el and emacs-wiki.el (the only reasons why I can maintain this kind of website [...]
• 2003: Tips for web development — - http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html
• 2003: Text input methods — wearable, input — Could a Palm user please check out http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/atomik and see if it’s any good? If so, I’d love an image or text [...]
• 2003: Cool notebook — tech — A Slashdot comment on notebooks in Japan led me to http://panasonic.jp/pc/products/r1m/index.html (960g, a bit heavier than my PCG-U1′s 820g).