sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2012: Sketchnotes from WordCamp Developers Toronto 2012 Day 2 #wcto — From Wireframe to WordPress Theme in 10 Minutes – Sam Xu WordPress for a Large Site – Brandon Hill Mobile Apps in [...]
• 2012: Coming up with a three-word life philosophy — Because people like my sketchnotes so much, I’ve signed up for the Rockstar Scribe course to see if I can [...]
• 2011: Decision review: Cat boarding — We were going to be away for a week and a half, so we needed to make plans for our [...]
• 2010: How much time does it take to blog? — Me? Five to ten minutes extra, tops. That’s for my most useful posts: the ones where I’m sharing how [...]
• 2009: Thoughts from “Remote Presentations That Rock”, changing dynamics — Yesterday, I gave my Remote Presentations That Rock session at the IBM Technical Leadership Exchange virtual conference. 98 people attended [...]
• 2009: Compfight: Search Flickr for CC-licensed images — One of the hidden gems in David Gillespie’s Digital Strangelove: or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the [...]
• 2008: Learning about conviction and life — One of the videos we watched last weekend was Ever After, which is my favorite Cinderella reimagining because Drew Barrymore [...]
• 2008: Cat scratching post — Last weekend was a weekend of making things. W-, J- and I built a scratching post for Leia, our cat. [...]
• 2007: Weekly review — From last week: Dogear podcast due Nov 3 DONE Client project? WAITING 2000 more words in Emacs-related blog entries WHIFFED =( Go to DemoCamp, reconnect with people DONE [...]
• 2005: Creativity — Carl Sia dreads the thought of running dry: Creativity isn’t something that can be tapped on demand. Unlike jobs that require [...]
• 2005: Crossroads — One of my best friends is discovering how agonizingly wonderful life is when you find the sweet spots where your passions [...]
• 2005: Crisis in a time of chocolate and friendship — Thanks to everyone who wrote in with words of warmth and support for a teaching assistant going through an imposter-syndrome-identity-crisis. Thanks also [...]
• 2004: Watching an English study program on TV… — “Look at the ball!” <grin>
• 2004: Ranulf’s interview: games — http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=16662
• 2004: Watched a kitsune kabuki play on TV — Still don’t understand the dialogue, but understood the expressions and gestures enough to figure out the story. =) A child was [...]
• 2004: Default file coding for emacs-wiki — I really should get around to making UTF-8 the default…
• 2003: On women computer scientists — Reader feedback: This just interest me, sacha? is that a feminine name? if thats so, wow, I hardly ever knew that [...]
• 2003: Japanese information processing weblog — http://akira.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/hc/doos/cat_jiplish.html
• 2003: Today — - Finished my ACM test cases (yay!) – I had to scale the bounds down a bit. - Picked up a [...]
• 2003: Concept maps — Quick links: http://www.innovationtools.com/Links2/linksnew.asp : Links to other sites http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/info/ : Concept maps are useful for curriculum planning http://www.business-training-schools.com/bus/a-lesson-in-concept-mapping.php http://radio.weblogs.com/0114870/2003/02/04.html : about the IHMC tool. [...]
• 2003: Freemind extension — Project idea: maybe students can work on making freemind networked, but this is a fairly big project and I haven’t wrapped my [...]
• 2003: University of Michigan – Highly Interactive Computing in Education? — Concept Mapping on the Palm for kids! Hi-Ce Palm.Tech Project Hi-Ce - Lab for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at University [...]
• 2003: ACM training — <grin> I am relatively certain that the current ACM contestants way, way outclass me. Kudos to everyone for training very hard! [...]
• 2003: Blogs and academics — http://barclaybarrios.com/tsk/blog/academics.html
• 2003: Reflection on 2003.11.04 — Thanks to extreme teaching link blogged earlier, have discovered how much fun it is to brainstorm course content on index [...]
• 2003: Emacs for Windows — There is a CVS-version (21.3.50.1) available at http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/ .
• 2001: acp bugs — Gosh, today is stressful. I thought I’d finished all the bugs already, but of course there’s always one more bug [...]