sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2012: Sketchnotes: Jeremiah Owyang @ Third Tuesday Toronto (#3TYYZ) on the Social Business Hierarchy of Needs — Click on the image for a larger version or contact me for a high-res version (2608x1600px). Feel free to share [...]
• 2012: Pizza pizza pizza pizza — We’re settling into a routine of making pizza from scratch almost every week. It’s relatively quick and easy to make. [...]
• 2011: Cattus Petasatus — On a whim, W- and I are learning Latin. We figure that schoolkids used to learn Latin and Greek, so [...]
• 2010: Even more awesome LotusScript mail merge for Lotus Notes + Microsoft Excel — UPDATE: May 20, 2011 – David Turner has shared his excellent improvements. Check them out! UPDATE: May 28, 2010 – fixed [...]
• 2009: Thinking about the next summer dress I’m going to make — I’m trying to decide what to do with this pretty embroidered-border linen I picked up from Fabricland. J- thinks I [...]
• 2009: Drupal: I’m learning how to be a JQuery/Date+Calendar ninja! =) — Our customized Date+Calendar-based Drupal event calendar is coming along quite nicely. The information architect’s design called for extensive customizations, such [...]
• 2009: Learning from Gen Y: Help needed! — In a few weeks, I’ll be giving a talk called I.B.Millennials: Working with and Learning From Generation Y at the [...]
• 2008: It’s not just for you – it helps other people remember the steps, too! — We took J- to her last hiphop dance class before the performance on Monday. It’s amazing what lessons in life [...]
• 2005: People with a passion… — According to Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users (another must-read blog), this is what passion looks like: ../pics/passion.jpg I want to make [...]
• 2004: Feast — We feasted on chicken marsala risotto. The creamy arborio rice tickled our tongues; the chicken hinted of the best wine. We [...]
• 2004: New RSS feed: Flash fiction — My 55-word short stories are now available as an RSS feed at http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/wiki/flash.rdf . If you run across anyone else blogging 55-word [...]
• 2004: Link — another 55-word story — Webpages flash through my optic nerves. I flirt with the system. Guatemala, average rainfall. Pi, 500 digits. Uzbekhistan, capital. Girl, second row, [...]