sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending November 18, 2011 — Good week! Lots of progress on coding and testing work projects as well as Quantified Awesome. Getting there… From last [...]
• 2010: Conversations: Stian Håklev — Stian Håklev is passionate about education – and in particular, the richness of different cultures and perspectives. Here are some [...]
• 2009: The luxury of making — My standard for decadence used to be the microfiber robe I once had the pleasure of trying in a [...]
• 2008: TCP window scaling, or zomg the Internet works for me again — Sites such as aircanada.com, pcfinancial.ca, and (horror of horrors!) torontopubliclibrary.ca had gotten _unbearably_ slow on Linux. Here’s how I fixed it [...]
• 2006: Nov 13 to Nov 19 — This week, I concentrated on schoolwork and got quite a lot of things done. Mark and I submitted my CAS project [...]
• 2006: Hooray Internet collaboration! — I hadn’t heard anything from my KMD2004 groupmates all weekend, so I was rather worried about the integrative summary that we [...]
• 2006: Mmm, chocolate — I’m munching on a special chocolate mix from Choco Sol. The slab of sun-dried, bicycle-powered and volcanic-stone-ground chocolate contains cacao, agave, amaranth, [...]
• 2005: Pride and Prejudice — My suitemates and I watched Pride and Prejudice last night. The tension was absolutely wonderful. Then again, it’s a Jane Austen novel. [...]
• 2004: sacha/planner-create-note-from-task — ;; Improvements: ;; - Link back to the task? ;; - Make it possible to have your note on another page? (defun sacha/planner-create-note-from-task [...]
• 2003: CookOrDie: Day 7: Reheated rice, sausage slices — Leftover rice plus Hungarian sausages. Okay, but not as fun as bread or potatoes. Tomorrow, will check out meat shop. Yang chow [...]
• 2003: Words of wisdom — From William Yu: Communication effects. You can influence a person by taking time to talk with them. (from Fanny’s blog)
• 2003: CS21A: Smiley — I drew a smiley on the board and provided the skeleton for a new class that drew only the circle that [...]
• 2003: CS161 — Having breezed through the first slide set in one class day while the other teachers are just halfway through, I wanted [...]
• 2003: My faculty load — sum cs21a 4 1st cs21a 4 1st cs123 4 1st cs231 2 2nd cs21a 4 2nd cs21b 3 2nd cs21b 3 2nd cs161 4 2nd cs161 4 2nd cs197 1