sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2013: Emacs Org: Display projects with a few subtasks in the agenda view — I wanted a view that showed projects with a few subtasks underneath them. That way, I could quickly scan my [...]
• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending January 6, 2012 — We used the holiday weekend to organize and back up our files, so there was a ton of tidying up. [...]
• 2011: Emacs, BBDB, and getting your contacts on the Android or iPhone — Want your Emacs BBDB contacts on your Android or iPhone? The easiest way I’ve found is to export your [...]
• 2010: Monthly highlights: December 2009 — The best surprise of December was the response I got to my post on What can I help you learn? [...]
• 2009: I like Lotus Notes 8.5 =) — Yes, I know, liking Lotus Notes is weird. It’s a little like liking Emacs, but even more inexplicable. But Lotus Notes [...]
• 2008: You have received a painting from Sacha —
• 2008: Book triage — Okay. 31 books. 15 days. Plus all the writing I still need to do. I may have made a bit of [...]
• 2008: January – Chapter 7: Taking Notes — For January 2008, my assignment is to write a chapter on taking notes with Emacs. Here are the blog posts that [...]
• 2007: Inflection point: on the up and up — Two days ago, I was so frustrated by all the little things that were going wrong. I think I’m past the [...]
• 2006: Things every geek should know — Whenever I meet geeks for the first time, I tend to run through a list of tools I think they should [...]
• 2006: Education brainstorming — Big thanks to Cindy A. Trinidad, Roy C. Nicolas, Dominique Cimafranca, Charo Nuguid, JM Ibanez, and Clair Ching for sharing [...]
• 2006: Javascript or Flash? — I’ve been thinking about the Adphoto portfolio viewer. As nice and, well, flashy as a Flash portfolio viewer would be, it might [...]
• 2005: Japanese word list generator — MWAHAHAHAHA! I just pulled off a really neat Emacs hack. <grin> It’s Japanese-related. So I’ve been translating this document for the [...]