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On This Day...

• 2011: Seasons and salad days — The stove idles as we switch gear to salads. No heat. No cooking. Just the whirl-whirl-whirl of leaves in the [...]
• 2011: Made a kitty soap holder — I think I’m getting the hang of crafting. When J- said that she was thinking of sewing a stuffed-toy-like soap [...]
• 2010: Exercising the senses — When I started writing, I discovered that it gave me ways to look at things I was learning and see [...]
• 2009: Taking the Stage — My manager recommended me to the “Taking the Stage” workshop series, a leadership program that helps women develop a more [...]
• 2008: Teaching passion — Ideally, teachers would focus on one single thing: getting their students really, deeply excited about the subject of the course. [...]
• 2007: Roadtrip! — If my dad ever invites you on a roadtrip, say yes—but pack lots of clothes and money, and cancel anything you’ve [...]
• 2006: DemoCamp afterparty — I couldn’t make it to DemoCamp proper, but I caught the afterparty at Molly Bloom’s. I checked all the tables for [...]
• 2006: Toastmasters — I made it just in time to catch the Table Topics session at Toast I.T. Toastmasters. I nearly would’ve won with my [...]
• 2006: TTC — It was 37′C (hooray!), so I took the streetcar instead of the bus. A stranger complimented me on my outfit. Eduardo [...]
• 2006: fMRI scan — I signed up for a research study that needed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans of evening-type right-handed people. They promised [...]
• 2006: Telecon — I was panicking all morning because I didn’t have the teleconference details for something at noon, but fortunately I remembered that [...]
• 2006: fMRI study — I’m at the Sunnybrook Hospital waiting for the researchers to do an fRMI scan of my brain. One of the researchers [...]
• 2006: Blogging is vanity — Congratulations to Stephen Perelgut for making it to the #1 most-commented blog entry in IBM and #4 hottest blog! Heh. Blogging [...]
• 2006: More thoughts on Barcamp II — I personally am not tired of conferences. I am just tired of tired conferences. Particularly the ones with the same [...]
• 2006: More thoughts on Barcamp, no answers — Dominique helpfully offered suggestions on adapting BarCamp to the Philippines. He said that it was doable, but challenging. He asked me the [...]
• 2006: Networking with Moleskines — I’m somewhat notorious for writing notes during conversations. I keep ‘minutes’ in a little black book that I always carry [...]
• 2005: Office supplies shopaholic — My name is Sacha Chua and I’m an office supplies shopaholic. I find it nearly impossible to pass a bookstore without [...]
• 2005: Gah, need to organize — I really need to sort my things. I vaguely remember seeing my USB key somewhere—must’ve been my room. I’ll start that [...]
• 2003: Learning Gnus — A good Gnus tutorial can be found at http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/html/howtos/howto-adopt-gnus.html .
• 2003: Using 802.11b to find out where you are — http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl/MS_Projects/projects.html#radar
• 2003: Light readings on the relational model — http://www.firstsql.com/issues.html
• 2003: ‘Dumb IT hiring practices’ — http://www.angrycoder.com/article.aspx?cid=10&y=2002&m=5&d=24
• 2003: “From PlayStation to Supercomputer for $50,000″ — A supercomputer that may be able to perform a half-trillion operations per second has been built out of 70 Sony PlayStation [...]
• 2003: “Wear Down Opposition” — Some academics subscribe to the theory that the move toward wearable technology is part of an evolutionary trend stretching back more than [...]
• 2003: “Business Is Toying With a Web Tool” — Wiki, Web collaboration software used by informal online groups, is taking hold in the business realm. More useful for collaboration than [...]