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On This Day...

• 2013: Thinking about small talk at networking events — There’s always something happening in Toronto, and I go to one or two events each week. Most events have a [...]
• 2012: Emacs: Chatting with John Wiegley about the cool things he does with Emacs — John Wiegley – June 26, 2012 from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. Transcript: http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/07/transcript-emacs-chat-john-wiegley/ Read more context for John Wiegley’s thoughts on the GPL. [...]
• 2011: Learning from the speeches of grade seven students — As part of the grade 8 graduation ceremony, J- and the other grade 7 students spoke about the students who [...]
• 2010: Keeping my name — Sacha Chua. It’s hard to pronounce, hard to spell, and frequently changed into Sacha Chau, Sacha Chu, or Sasha, or [...]
• 2005: Geeksta rap — Wired: Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore Well, whaddaya know. =) 優れたコンピュータでもチェスではあなたを負かせない。 Even a good computer can’t beat you at chess. On Technorati: geek
• 2005: Forms — My mom’s amazing. Her interest in organizing information helped professionalize the advertising photography industry here in the Philippines. She told me how [...]
• 2005: Cool, another Emacs geekette — Svaksha is another Emacs geekette. She passed by my blog and left an encouraging note about voicing one’s thoughts. =) コンピューターは、たちえ緩慢にせよ大きな変化を引き起こした。 Computers caused a [...]
• 2005: ntfsresize — Marcelle’s laptop (a Compaq Presario 2500 with 60GB of hard disk space) succumbed to malware. I’m helping him out so that [...]
• 2005: Make a difference — You are all invited to attend the New Volunteers Orientation of Hands On Manila on Tuesday, June 28th at the Powerbooks [...]
• 2004: CookOrDie spreads! — I started to follow your example: I document my more daring cooking adventures on my blog: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/utis/2004-06-26 Scroll down to “Cooking”. Would it [...]
• 2004: Poi — Just got back from Roxas Boulevard and my first stint as an apprentice arsonist. My sister Kathy did her first public performance [...]
• 2003: CompSAt — Talked to some of the CompSAt people regarding an upcoming computer camp. Their initial plan was a pretty straightforward Java cram session. [...]
• 2003: Mail taming — I have once again tweaked my Gnus settings to make handling my mail easier. =) Summary line format change – added [...]
• 2003: Some readings — Posted on the compsci@lists.free.net.ph list: - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~dylan/efficientReading.html or http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~dylan/efficientReading.pdf - http://www.ccel.org/c/chesterton/orthodoxy/orthodoxy.html
• 2003: Performance tuning in Java — http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/tips/index.shtml
• 2003: Game Engine Anatomy 101 — http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,594,00.asp
• 2003: www.azillionmonkeys.com — Gerald R. Generoso forwarded a link to http://www.azillionmonkeys.com, which should elicit a chuckle from most computer geeks. Not sure how useful [...]