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On This Day...

• 2012: Ice cream season and the first seeds in the garden — It’s unseasonably warm by all accounts. The historic average for the next fourteen days is a high of 7C and [...]
• 2011: The three argumenteers — (Or arguers, more correctly? But Argumenteers is a fun little reference.) Logos, ethos, and pathos. =) W- and I would like [...]
• 2010: Presentation kaizen: Seven everyday ways to become a better presenter — Talk given at PresentationCamp. Presentation Kaizen View more presentations from Sacha Chua You need to have something worth presenting. Shortest [...]
• 2010: How to brain-dump what you know — Why You’re going to need it. Why solve things twice? Write things down. You can save yourself the time it [...]
• 2009: Drupal tip: Test mail sending with Devel — If you don’t want to send lots of mail to your users when you’re testing your site, change the Devel [...]
• 2009: Outsourcing processes: Wake-up call — Here’s my process for my wake-up call: Every day, at the wake-up time I specified, please: Go to start.sachachua.com and sign in. Sign [...]
• 2009: Wake up calls — I’m beginning to rather like wake-up calls. I set up a recurring task in Timesvr to have someone call me at [...]
• 2007: Blogging: not just for extroverts — In the middle of my enthusiastic bubbling-over about IBM’s social software offerings, Hossam Ali-Hassan asked me, “Do bloggers tend to [...]
• 2007: The magic of connection — There are many business reasons why social bookmarking makes sense, but let me tell you a personal story to show you [...]
• 2007: It’s spring — Now I can believe that it’s spring. The sunlight is warm against my back. The sun gazes on me and I [...]
• 2006: When it rains, it pours — Today (Thursday) is the area-level Toastmasters international speech contest. I don’t feel prepared for it at all. Unlike the other contestants, I [...]
• 2005: Microfinancing — Read technobiography: OT: Jun-jun the Parking Man and think about the poor. I think microfinancing is a good idea, BUT it [...]
• 2005: How to hire great people — joelonsoftware has interesting insights on hiring the best people. He pokes holes in hiring fallacies like super-selection: “We’re so good we [...]
• 2005: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! — Hi Sacha, I just talked to the grad office. They were waiting for me to give my approval, oops. :) An offer [...]
• 2004: MIT application — Deleted: Lost secret key.
• 2004: Stanford: Stream data manager — http://www-db.stanford.edu/stream/index.html In applications such as network monitoring, telecommunications data management, web personalization, manufacturing, sensor networks, and others, data takes the form of continuous [...]
• 2004: Using tla for archives — Look! I’m being used as an example! http://tkd.kicks-ass.net/planner/GnuArch.html That’s it, I’ve got to check out this checksumming thing… My name is [...]
• 2004: Information retrieval course — http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~ian/irS01/ ../../notebook/plans/2004.03.23
• 2004: School Bus — It’s not much, but if I don’t force myself to write, I might never get around to it. =) She glanced at [...]
• 2004: cal-desk-calendar support for planner-diary.el — Travis B. Hartwell wrote: Hi all, I patched what I hope is the most recent version of planner-diary.el from tla to optionally utilize [...]
• 2003: harvey chua — My mom wants to make sure her friends find her e-mail and our website. Harvey Chua
• 2003: custom binding — I have bound keycode 131 to ( and keycode 129 to ) on my jp106 keyboard. 131 is the muhenkan [...]
• 2003: deleting messages after N days — tips — I was somewhat apologetic about the lack of delete-after-N-days features in Linux mail clients, since my mom relies on that to [...]