sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Quantified Awesome: A place for everything, and everything in its place — A month is a good size for experimenting with life. This month, I’m focusing on having a place for everything [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending November 14, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [C] Drupal: Display faceted search results in calendar form – low priority [...]
• 2009: Reflecting on how I can create value — I reviewed my past eight years of blog posts and dusted off some articles that I think still have some [...]
• 2009: Reflecting on 8 years of blog posts —
• 2009: Lucas — I remember when Lucas entered our lives. My sister had been staying late at the zoo, taking care of a [...]
• 2005: Pictures from tango — Outfit Blouse: CAD 3.99Skirt: CAD 4.00Knowing how to spot gems in Goodwill: priceless. Dancing Dancing with Chris
• 2005: Tango lessons — Two short, ridiculously low-res clips from tango lessons. ../pics/tango-1.mpg (1.8 MB) – ../pics/tango-2.mpg (1.2 MB)
• 2004: WAAAH! Another thing I want to go to! — As I can’t go, can someone else go and take notes? From: Sunil Abraham Subject: Asia Source: Tech camp for the [...]
• 2004: emacs-wiki and planner, but in other languages — Funky cool. Not that I can understand anything, but cool nonetheless. KLDP%20BBS%20::%20주제%20보기%20-%20Wiki%20질문(%201,%20윈도우용%20Standalone,%202.%20vi%20로%20편집?)
• 2004: Text editor as PIM — Mentions PlannerMode as an ‘even more obsessive rendering of this idea’. Mwahahahaha! Hmm, I think I should obsess even more about it… [...]
• 2004: Emacs lisp snippet for browsing referrer logs — (defun sacha/ffap-quick () (interactive) (save-window-excursion (save-excursion (ffap)))) This makes browsing the [...]
• 2004: Real heroes — Roy Patrick Tan blogged about recent (verifiable) contest achievements. He mentioned Ateneo’s wonderful ICPC thing. Eh, need the scores clarified. Was under impression [...]
• 2004: Faye story a hoax by emotionally disturbed mom — Pity, that. Anyway, full story below. We%20lied%20because%20no%20one%20loved%20us,%20says%20′whiz’%20kid%20ma%20-%20INQ7.net Which doesn’t mean that Cool Things don’t happen in the Philippines. I’m thrilled by the recent [...]
• 2004: Faye update: hoax — Mom said: Faye’s story is on the front page again, this time with the newspaper saying the Bread of Life Ministry will [...]
• 2004: ACM results! YAAAAY!! — 2nd place Miguel Arguelles, Mark Punzalan, Allan Espinosa 8th place Mike Gonzalez, Jino Noel, Topher Rigor 12th place Cliff Lim, Reinabelle Reyes, Charles Yeung 12th place Eric [...]
• 2003: Computer science unplugged — http://unplugged.canterbury.ac.nz/ Way, way, way cool.