sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Rails experiences: Things I learned from project O — Rails is awesome. We built a workflow/reporting system for ~120 users using Rails 3. My part of the project came [...]
• 2010: Yearly review: 2010 — What a year for major life changes! My cat Neko and I officially moved to Canada this year when I [...]
• 2009: Copious free time? Carefully protected! — While we were chatting about hobbies, one of my mentors joked about my copious free time. “My carefully protected free [...]
• 2008: Summarizing my WordPress posts using XSLT; 2008 as a PDF — It’s the time of the year for annual updates. I was thinking of reviewing all the blog posts I’d written [...]
• 2007: Why I use Emacs to manage my tasks — I’m writing a chapter on how to use Emacs to manage your tasks. I find it hard to explain why [...]
• 2007: A great workday —
• 2007: Dec 19: Waking up was hard, but things got better —
• 2006: Best thing to do at the HKIA — … is to park yourself in a chair and use the free wifi to chat with friends. =D Random Emacs symbol: [...]
• 2006: At the Hong Kong International Airport — I’m at the Hong Kong International Airport, and have just polished off breakfast. I have four hours before I need to [...]
• 2006: In transit — There’s a certain kind of sadness among standby passengers. I’ve overheard stories of missed connections and early-morning vigils, long-distance calls to tell [...]
• 2004: Anything But Microsoft Retail Store Pushes Linux, Open Source — Yet another good reason to go to Toronto. Hey, if their geek community can sustain something like this… <laugh> From Manny Amador’s [...]
• 2004: Random cool stuff on the Net — From Clair: I stumbled upon this page http://www.infinitecat.com/infinite/cat1.html I got a link from http://www.livejournal.com/~kandake about a song featuring elements from the periodic table (which is [...]