sacha chua living an awesome life

For helping teach my kid to read I used emacs running emacspeak.
The robotic language, via the eflite speech synthesis server, was
sufficient to get the words' pronunciation across.  Type
"D-O-G-" in a buffer and you get the audio feedback "dog."
I used to set the xterm to the most massive font size available
(by adjusting the font and screen sizes) to make reading, or so I
assumed, easier for preschool eyes.

On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending October 5, 2012 — Colder weather! From last week’s plans Business [X] Earn: E1: Consult (2 days a week) [-] Earn: Reconnect with [...]
• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 6): Looking back — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2009: Drupal workflow for small projects — One of the recent hires dropped by with a few questions about Drupal development in small projects. She wanted to [...]
• 2008: — Update build and deployment plan Refine alert behavior for Drupal site Participate in IBM’s Innovation Jam Paperwork: expenses, time, overtime Write about lesson 2 [...]
• 2008: Deploying Drupal updates onto a live site — Our configuration management discipline paid off last week, when we rolled out lots of bugfixes onto our production server. I [...]
• 2007: Took the IELTS — Canada’s skilled worker point system includes points for language proficiency, which can be proved either through a letter or through a standardized [...]
• 2006: Check out Hack Night! — In Toronto from Oct 16 to 19? Come to Hack Night on Oct 17 (Tuesday)! It’ll be fun. Free pizza, [...]
• 2006: Minutes from meeting on Thursday — Attendance: Dave Kemp, Sacha Chua From 2:10 to 2:30 or so Apologies for miscommunication: Sacha had written down the meeting for 1:00 [...]
• 2005: Tips for time management — Jessie and I also talked about the challenges of balancing the demands of research, studies, teaching, and life. She wanted to [...]
• 2005: Tips for talking to other people — I met Jessie at the Graduate Students Initiative lunch yesterday. She’s a first-year grad student taking up a master’s degree in chemical [...]
• 2005: Research blog — Yes, yes, yet another blog. http://blogs.imedia.mie.utoronto.ca/sacha/research/ will store my research notes. Really. Promise. Well, at least my research notes will stay there for [...]
• 2005: More about looking for geek role models — Michael Olson wrote: I hope Google does a better job with your tech talk than they did at Purdue. A few [...]
• 2005: Geek girl T-shirts — The two women from HR wore Google Women’s Tees. From the website: “We originally designed this shirt for our efforts in [...]
• 2005: Google recruitment talk: Impressions — Google is, of course, t3h k3wl. In fact, working at Google is probably cooler than studying at MIT, in terms of [...]
• 2005: Google: Organizing the World’s Information… and Loving It! — The Google recruitment talk was given by John Abd-El-Malek (jam@google.com, abdelMAHLik). Other engineers were also around for the question and answer: Amit [...]
• 2003: Deadline for Submission of Final Marks for the First Semester, SY — 2003-2004 will be on: October 22, 2003, Wednesday (for GRADE SHEETS SUBMISSION) *October 26, 2003,Sunday (for ON-LINE SUBMISSION ).
• 2003: More PersonalityQuizzes — 1. When do you feel your best? c. Late at night 2. You usually walk… b. Fairly fast, with little steps 3. When talking [...]
• 2003: More thoughts on my course — Sacha wrote: > I'm somewhat hesitant about taking my master's degree in Ateneo > because I want to learn more about different [...]
• 2003: USB Bluetooth dongle that should work with Linux — http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/mitsumi-usb-bluetooth-review.html