sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto Oct 21 2011 — David Phillips talked about surveillance and his impressions of the Quantified Self conference, I showed my personal tracking system, and [...]
• 2011: Stories from the trip: Making my peace with endings — Reflections during the flight back: I try not to take even everyday routines for granted. There are only so [...]
• 2010: Book: Critical inquiry: the process of argument — Photo source: I Can Has Cheezburger Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument Michael Boylan, 2009, [...]
• 2009: Thinking about conferences — I might feel anxious about starting a conversation with a stranger, but I love inspiring a room through public speaking. [...]
• 2009: Thinking out loud about my presentation — In two weeks, I’m going to talk about Remote Presentations That Rock at the Technical Leadership Exchange, a virtual conference [...]
• 2006: Sundays — <laugh> Okay, this not-working-on-Sunday thing is driving me nuts. I can’t just sit around and do nothing all day; I have [...]
• 2005: Totally awesome start to my day — Had a video conference with my mom, Dominique, Clair, Marcelle, Peppy, and Ranulf. Whee! Whee! That was really, really sweet of [...]
• 2003: Wedding stories — My sister Ching Chua got married to John Valdezco last 2003.10.18. A couple of stories: Monsignor Nico presided at the wedding. He [...]
• 2003: The PHP Scalability Myth — by Jack Herrington 10/15/2003 PHP scales. There, I said it. The word on the street is that “Java scales and PHP doesn’t.” The [...]
• 2003: A Slashdot post says there’s a big bookstore in Seoul — Deep within downtown Seoul, on the bottom floor of one of the city’s innumerable high-rises, is the Kyobo Bookstore, the [...]