sacha chua living an awesome life

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On This Day...

• 2013: Sketchnote: ENT101 Lived It Lecture–Kunal Gupta, Polar Mobile — Update Jan 17, 2013: Added video! I sketchnoted this live at the free MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series (webcast and in-person session [...]
• 2013: Visual book review: The Art of Pricing: How to Find the Hidden Profits to Grow Your Business–Rafi Mohammed — Setting a price for products and services seems like a black art. The Art of Pricing covers strategies that you [...]
• 2012: Making good progress on theming the site — The Drupal site I’m working on is slowly coming together. I still feel an itch to redo the big, hardcoded [...]
• 2011: Snippets from life — We celebrated J-’s birthday at Korean Grill House last night. During a lull in the conversation as people digested the [...]
• 2010: I’ll never buy a Moleskine again — Hand-made notebooks are so awesome. Charo not only gave me a wonderful little notebook, she taught me how to make [...]
• 2010: Personal knowledge management, morgue files, capture systems — How do you organize what you know so that you can use it for inspiration later? Here’s what I have: Input: Experience Conversations Books Blogs Ideas Experiments Capture [...]
• 2009: Being less stupid is harder than being smarter — With all due respect to @adamclyde, who tweeted being smarter is a lot harder than just being a little less [...]
• 2009: Dealing with weaknesses: calendars — Okay, I’m starting to get really annoyed at the weakness of my calendar system. The Google Calendar integration into Notes [...]
• 2009: Thinking about the Canadian Tax-free Savings Account — W- and I picked up a 2008-2009 tax planning guide from the Toronto Public Library, and I was pleasantly surprised [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending January 9, 2009 — This week: From last week’s plans: Get back to work! Integrate Lotus Connections and Drupal for fun and profit. Built and deployed [...]
• 2008: Yes, I write too much — Post stats for your viewing pleasure. =) ~646,802 total published words from 4,255 posts Someday I’m going to make pretty graphs. I’d [...]
• 2008: The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence — The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do [...]
• 2008: Note-taking: Random notes, journal entries, outlines, and hyperlinks — I take at least three different kinds of notes, and I need to manage them differently. Here are some rough [...]
• 2008: Writing plans for the chapter on managing notes — - [ ] Keeping Notes in Emacs Structured vs Unstructured (outline, free-form) Flat vs Hyperlinked Private vs Public File structure (one file, daily, snippets) In [...]
• 2007: A tale of two houses — The Alabang house is nice and relaxing. The Internet access is just as reliable (or not) as the access in Makati [...]
• 2007: Orange and Bronze has discovered the secret to low employee turnover! — I dropped by Orange and Bronze to find out what was going on in the company that employs a surprising number [...]
• 2007: Good day — I talked to my research supervisor and wrote up the big picture document, which I’ll revise tomorrow morning. I also finished [...]
• 2007: The universe does not tolerate a chocolate deficiency — I was feeling down because of the lack of progress on my thesis and because I felt that I didn’t have [...]
• 2006: The emperor’s three questions — From http://www.textfiles.com/stories/emperor3.txt : Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only [...]
• 2006: Teaching assistant for Praxis II! =) — Whee! I was offered the Praxis II teaching assistantship! It was just _perfect_ for my interests. I’ll get to set up [...]
• 2004: WEP key for faculty LAN — Deleted as I lost the key.
• 2004: More reviewers! — Cliff’s group has nicely made a few reviewers for CS161. You can find them at http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/cs161/reviewers/ . E-Mail from Cliff
• 2004: Basic balance calculation — Moved into DoubleEntryAccounting