sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Cats in high places — Some cats love high places. With a little planning, it’s easy to give kitty a great view. Here are Luke [...]
• 2010: Living an awesome life: Not a Greek tragedy — SCHEDULED: 2010-07-26 Mon 08:00 (There’ll be more on this later, but I wanted to think about and share [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending July 26, 2009 — From last week’s plans Facilitate idea lab online – going well! Do basic analysis of community participation in idea lab Start with improv [...]
• 2009: Never get used up — While in a client’s office, I noticed this quote: At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a [...]
• 2009: Science 2.0: July 29, 2009 1pm-6pm MaRS — What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They WorkThe MaRS Centre, 101 College [...]
• 2008: Emacs is not just for computer geeks; also, these are the things that keep me going — Reposted with permission because (a) it shows that people who aren’t computer geeks can also love Emacs, and (b) it [...]
• 2008: Want to subscribe to a subset of my blog? — I write a lot about Emacs. I also write a fair bit about Drupal. Both are rather geeky topics that [...]
• 2008: Yet another snippet mode for Emacs — While reading gnu.emacs.help, I came across yasnippet (yet another snippet extension for Emacs). It provides interactive templates for text or [...]
• 2008: Things I can do to make progress on my book — Switch my development environment to Emacs Put together the existing book chapters I have so far Process the tech reviews I’ve gotten [...]
• 2007: Another day, another revision; Exercising in the park; Pinakbet and cherry pie — I sent off another revision today, and I think I’ll be ready to send a copy of my thesis to my [...]
• 2006: Signed up for a DemoCamp demo — David Crow made me promise to give a DemoCamp session, so I’m going to do one on Emacs as a [...]
• 2006: Batik and ethnic clothes — I love wearing ethnic clothes. Traditional outfits are hip enough to pass off as casual but dignified enough to go formal, [...]
• 2006: In print! — Yup, the July 1 issue of the Guardian has my name in print! Whee! Page 3 of the section titled Rise… Time [...]
• 2006: DemoCamp! — I love going to conferences and geek get-togethers because I always end up having the most interesting conversations. Even though [...]
• 2006: Moved to Vaio! — The power adapter on my Fujitsu Lifebook P1110 has just completely given up. Fortunately, my parents had given me the [...]
• 2005: Toast IT — Charo and the others have been telling me to join the Toastmasters for the longest time. After sifting through a number [...]
• 2005: My banking needs — I need a Canada-based credit card for most of my purchases. I’ll keep track of all of the purchases and pay [...]
• 2005: Paper inbox planner — The Paper Planner Inbox is a good post about keeping an “inbox” section in your planner. My index cards used to be [...]
• 2005: How to fold a shirt — Clair passed me a link to that nifty tutorial on folding shirts. I wonder if the trick works with the [...]
• 2004: Any spare Gmail invites? — I haven’t actually sent any mail from my gmail account yet, so I don’t have any invites to send. If you [...]
• 2002: Online submission system — The online submission system I was hacking together works, and I’m now just fiddling around with ideas for the next one.
• 2002: Laptop got scared — Yes, it’s me. Apparently my laptop got scared and is cooperating again. I’ve backed up the rest of my data and should [...]