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On This Day...

• 2013: Time enough for friends — Eric and I were talking about the ways of making friends, and I wanted to reflect on it further. Here’s [...]
• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending April 13, 2012 — Table of Contents From last week’s plans… Plans for next week From last week’s plans… Business [X] Earn: Project E1: Mon-Thu (training, prototyping) [X] [...]
• 2011: Using behavioural economics to motivate yourself when working on risky projects — We’re scrambling to respond to a request for a proposal (RFP). We’re not sure if the RFP is a formality [...]
• 2010: From the ground up: Helping our organizations work smarter — IBM’s latest Smart Work study is about how outperforming organizations have adopted smarter work practices much more than most organizations [...]
• 2009: Managing virtual assistants: My process for managing talk deadlines and information — Log on to docs.sachachua.com and open my Talk planning spreadsheet. Click on the last tab near the bottom of the page. [...]
• 2009: Young and savvy — Over at My Two Dollars, Diane Hamilton wrote a post decrying how Millennials “have been raised to expect immediate gratification” [...]
• 2009: How to extract just the audio from Sametime Unyte recordings, on Linux — I use Sametime Unyte for web conferences at work. Unyte allows you to record your teleconferences (slides and audio), and [...]
• 2008: Weekly review – April 13, 2008 — Another week of conferences passed by in a blur. There were so many good stories; I hope I can reconstruct [...]
• 2007: Shoe shopping Saturday — The sneakers I bought at Payless Shoesource have been woefully inadequate for the demands of krav maga. Kicking and punching is [...]
• 2007: Wahoo! Inbox zero! — At least for my personal mail. Don Marti, your e-mail productivity hack rocks. Now I’m tracking inbox size in public [...]
• 2006: Reading paper — Okay, hmm, maybe I won’t be able to take my Center Island break… I’ll focus on my reading paper instead, and [...]
• 2006: Backlog: Friends — I had merienda with Steve and Mike Tsang (well, they had dinner), and then I attended a party Mike+Alice McGuffin’s place. [...]
• 2006: Imagining my future — Richi: Thank you for that long, well-thought reflection on being in another country. =) Thanks to your insights, I don’t feel [...]
• 2005: On organization — joroxx said: oh man, how do you keep a life so organized? ya know i love emacs and lisp but i’m bogging [...]
• 2004: Teaching evaluations for SY 2004-2005 — CS21A-A: Introduction to Computing I What did you like best about the course and the teacher? - She was very understanding! She [...]
• 2004: Local file links should be transformed to relative file links if possible — (defadvice emacs-wiki-markup-link (around sacha activate) "Resolve the matched wiki-link into its ultimate form. Images used the tag." [...]
• 2004: todl history — Todl history might be better implemented as two stacks: one stack for forward, another stack for backward. This eliminates the need [...]
• 2003: IBM Viavoice Dictation for Linux — https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/vvlinux-r?S_PKG=dl
• 2003: The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond — http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/
• 2003: Philippine Chapter of International Game Developers Association? — MrMusiko (mrmusiko AT eastern DOT com DOT ph) writes on the digitalfilipino@yahoogroups.com mailing list: Hello! Those who are into game [...]
• 2003: Computer science – is it an exact science? — education — On plug@lists.q-linux.com, Ritchie Roi Y. Chua writes: Computer Science is a science, but not an exact science like physics… Interestingly enough, computer [...]
• 2003: The Wonderful World of Emacs – planner.el — emacs, planner — Migs, the one who wrote in recently about non-working Year2003, Year2002 and Year2001 links, has this to ask: I’m very curious [...]