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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 1): Blogging and introverts — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! After I transcribed it, I realized we managed to pack more than [...]
• 2010: It’s okay if you can’t remember or spell my name; being human — Lifehacker had a recent post with tips on how to remember people’s names – generally useful tips, ground well-covered in [...]
• 2009: A teacher’s guide to Web 2.0 at school [illustrated] — A Teacher's Guide To Web 2.0 at School View more documents from Sacha Chua.
• 2008: Hacking the Domestic — W- and I unboxed and set up our very own sewing machine yesterday. It’s nothing fancy, just a Singer Simple [...]
• 2006: More Emacs fun: Composing mail to everyone with notes — (defun sacha/compose-mail-to-everyone (&optional subject) (mapc (lambda (rec) (setq rec (car [...]
• 2006: More Emacs coolness: List of contacts — This bit of Emacs Lisp code produces a Planner-ready list of the contacts displayed in the BBDB window. (defun sacha/planner-bbdb-annotation-from-bbdb (&optional [...]
• 2006: Emacs: Keep track of messages sent — Because a Big Brother Database of my contacts isn’t complete if I don’t keep track of what e-mail I sent them [...]
• 2006: The great laptop ad campaign — BarCampEarthToronto was a blast, and so was my laptop ad campaign. It didn’t generate any qualified leads, but it did get [...]
• 2005: Progress at cooking! — I had microwaved the chicken and slathered on barbecue sauce when I realized something important: I was out of cooked-and-frozen rice. [...]
• 2003: 今日 — 日本語 — アコースティックギターを一寸習いました。エリクさんは教えます。つまびで が楽しかったです。チョロヅが難しかったです。ギターより歌が好きです。でも、 習ってが良いです。 一昨日が妙です。 二人とスクラブルをしました。双方は私が好きでしょう。愛 しい一人と言いました。私は、あの事が未定です。
• 2003: Hyperdictionary — Andy Sy posted a link to http://www.hyperdictionary.com .
• 2003: Top Ten ways to combine fun and substance — From http://www.skylit.com/oop/FunAndSubstppt.pdf 10. Use gimmicks Provide a piece of Java code with a few syntax errors; finding and fixing these errors becomes an [...]
• 2003: Array ideas — - The meaning of String[] args - Maybe some kind of game or the Caesar cipher. - Declaring, creating and using arrays - [...]
• 2003: Slashdot Trolling Phenomena — Apparently, someone has written a fairly long description of common Slashdot trolls on WikiPedia#Slashdot_trolling_phenomena. Strange, strange.
• 2003: SSH Tunnelling — Still no breakthrough. I’m trying to automatically set up SSH tunnels. Because sysads doesn’t like passphrases, I have to use expect [...]
• 2003: Unofficial APT sources — http://www.apt-get.org