sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Quantified Awesome: Why I track — People often ask me why I measure what I measure. I do it because I’m curious, and measurement lets me [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending November 19, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Submit yearly review [X] Drupal: Write more of the access control [...]
• 2009: Drawing is about seeing the magic in everyday things —
• 2008: Weekly review: Week ending November 21, 2008 — I rocked. =) I turned my Drupal-based project over to a new team member. It was in great shape: the new [...]
• 2006: Dinner with a technology evangelist — When Kaleem invited me to dinner with Betsy Weber, chief evangelist at TechSmith, I immediately cleared my schedule and accepted. After all, [...]
• 2005: Back at the beginning — The last class of tango was today. We ended on a strange note, realizing how much more there is to learn. [...]
• 2005: Brain Gain Network – Philippines — Get to meet other geeks and tech-savvy business people at the Techie Palooza to be held by Brain Gain Network [...]
• 2003: Cool elisp hack! — I’ve gotten the bot-like improvements I wanted thanks to these snippets of elisp code: (require 'hippie-exp) (setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list [...]
• 2003: ERC+BBDB — (add-to-list 'erc-nick-popup-alist '("BBDB" . (bbdb nick nil)))
• 2003: Automatic encryption of wiki pages — From EmacsWiki#AutoEncryption ;; crypt++ – i use this in conjunction with emacs-wiki (require ‘crypt++) (setq crypt-encryption-type ‘mcrypt crypt-encryption-file-extension “\\(Secure\\)$\\|\\(\\.enc\\)$”) (setq emacs-wiki-ignored-extensions-regexp “\\.\\(bz2\\|gz\\|[Zz]\\|enc\\)\\’”)
• 2003: Books mirror — http://downloads.apc.edu.ph/books/
• 2003: HideShow mode — M-x hs-minor-mode I think I rather like hs-hide-all… (defun sacha/hs-minor-mode-hide-all () "Turn on `hs-minor-mode' and hide everything." (hs-minor-mode 1) [...]
• 2003: Things to try in class — education — http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Secondtier.html - One-minute papers: most important point made in the lecture and the single most pressing unanswered question - Encourage or mandate [...]
• 2003: Learning styles — http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/LS-1988.pdf The paper has important insights. I learn inductively – from complex examples, I try to figure out principles and ideas. However, [...]
• 2003: No-host trackbacks — http://brutalhugs.com/trackback/ Maybe I can use this to add trackbacks and comments to my semi-static pages! =) It’ll require Javascript, though… Oh, but they’re [...]