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On This Day...

• 2013: Emacs Chat with Avdi Grimm (Org-mode, Ruby, etc.) — Update 2013-03-16: Get the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files, or listen to them on archive.org! Thanks to Matthew Darling’s comment on [...]
• 2012: Celebrating rejection and failure — Dave Ferguson told me this story of a real estate agency that trains people to not be afraid of rejection. [...]
• 2011: Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business — Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging yesterday. When I brainstormed [...]
• 2010: Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice — Did my first Ignite talk last night, at Ignite Toronto 3. It was fun! Scary, yes. But fun, and I [...]
• 2008: He loves his new white hat —
• 2008: It is the choices we make that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities — “It is the choices we make, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities,” said Albus [...]
• 2008: What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose — You know what it’s like to make a choice you really don’t want to make, but have to because it’s [...]
• 2008: Trying out the high-flying lifestyle — I have to confess that I’m more than a little anxious. That’s a lot of time spent in conference centers [...]
• 2007: Cute socks! — Also, Wayne gave me a wonderful housewarming gift: a collection of rainbow-colored socks with messages like “I’m cute, so put me [...]
• 2007: Happy — Sunny day, chocolate, clarity, life is good. =) Random Emacs symbol: mail-complete-style – Variable: *Specifies how M-x mail-complete formats the full [...]
• 2007: Keys to my first apartment! — I signed the lease the other day, and picked up my keys yesterday. I’m so excited! Wayne helped me make a [...]
• 2007: Smile before you punch — (Catching up on a lot of unblogged events! =) ) Last Friday, I attended another session of krav maga, the Israeli self-defense [...]
• 2007: So I watched the opera last night… — … and I was happy to see that the average audience age was well under 60. I wouldn’t have minded having [...]
• 2007: No, I’m not dead yet… — … but opera is heaven. =) I can’t believe it took me this long to finally see a live performance of opera! We [...]
• 2006: LEGO — I got the robot to do what I wanted to. It was a nifty program. Didn’t work in the real world, [...]
• 2006: Happy birthday! — I didn’t get back until after midnight, so here’s a birthday blog post for my sister, Kathy: Happy birthday, kathychua.com! On Technorati: [...]
• 2006: It’s alive! — Today we finished the code for Calum’s robot. The robot’s job is to give blocks to other robots, and it scores [...]
• 2006: Congratulations to Alvin Chin! — Congratulations to Alvin Chin on his successful proposal – and I don’t mean the scientific kind! Eiffel Tower, eh? We’re still waiting [...]
• 2004: Oh, darn, I’m done with MOTAS. — Next!
• 2004: My dad was on NU 107.5 — He was interviewed for the Secret of My Success segment. Among other things, he told a very censored story of his [...]