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On This Day...

• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending April 27, 2012 — Two social events last Monday, and I was pretty much wiped out afterwards. I took it easy afterwards, and the [...]
• 2011: Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference — I gave a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and desktop-sharing in Lotus Live, and it worked out really well. I [...]
• 2011: Remote training that rocks — Some IBMers convinced me to share presentation tips with Lotus instructors. Here’s what I’m thinking about: You know what’s really [...]
• 2010: Smarter leaders braindump (long, visual) — Jump to comments Things I’m planning to talk about during the virtual leadership session tomorrow: Backup URL: http://sachachua.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/smarterleaders1.jpg
• 2010: Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor — At an external networking event a few years ago, I talked to an up-and-coming MBA grad who told me about [...]
• 2009: Getting better at writing design documents — I’m slowly getting better at writing design documents. Now that I’ve gotten rid of my two major annoyances (fields and [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2007: Windmills of Your Mind — The CBC had a program called “Separated at Birth” – music that was uncannily similar. Then the CBC played one of [...]
• 2007: Windmills of Your Mind — The CBC had a program called “Separated at Birth” – music that was uncannily similar. Then the CBC played one of [...]
• 2006: CHI2006: Ack! — Written on 2006.04.23: My laptop is in my bag. My power charger is in Toronto. Or at least that’s the only conclusion [...]
• 2006: Code Monkey — Found this on the Toronto Linux Users Group mailing list. From Jonathan Coulton: CodeMonkey.mp3. Sheer hilarity. I love geek music.
• 2006: Planning an ice cream party — I’d like to hold an ice cream party on Saturday to celebrate the Delta Kappa Gamma fellowship, spring, and other wonderful [...]
• 2006: Kathy’s May Day mayday! — My sister always writes hilarious invites for her parties. She’s really got flair. Here’s the latest one, with some details blocked [...]
• 2006: Nine million hits? Yeah, right — Dominique and Rizalist blogged about some politico claiming 9 million hits on a charter-change advocacy website. The politico was probably lying [...]
• 2006: Congratulations to Dominique, writer! — Congratulations to Dominique Cimafranca on being accepted to the Dumaguete Writers’ Workshop! He totally rocks. =) Update: Dominique’s blog entry
• 2005: On computer science education — In response to Neil Santos’ rant about computer science education: What a pity it is that you’ve never had a good [...]
• 2005: Net install — I’m setting up Linux on the Sony Vaio U1 so that I can use it as well as my Lifebook. I’ve [...]
• 2004: Day 8 — My house is really just five minutes away by car, so I needn’t worry so much about being late. I was [...]
• 2004: Heavily tweaked w3m — I’ve decided to do even more things the Emacs Way. Emacs-w3m is a lot more customizable than Mozilla. This is Emacs [...]
• 2004: PIM definition — Abbreviated PIM, a type of software application designed to help users organize random bits of information. Although the category is fuzzy, most [...]
• 2003: More Java resources — education — An anonymous person comments: Sacha, there’s also a Java equivalent to this at http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSjav/. You might also be interested in Bruce Eckels’ books, http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ [...]