Sketches: 2008 highlights

Posted on December 24th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

A quick sketch of the highlights of my year:

Letter and photos to follow! =)

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Merry Christmas, Sach! :D

On This Day...

2012: Year in review: 2012 — I’d sketch this, but Adobe Illustrator CS6 keeps crashing on me and I’m tired of fighting with my computer today. [...]
2011: Getting through the beige days — Some days, I feel productive and awesome. Some days, I feel scattered and distracted. Yesterday was one of [...]
2010: Reflections on mentoring new developers in Drupal — UPDATE: Fixed formatting. Thanks, Brock! Two developers recently joined our team. Johnny has worked with Drupal before, and needs a little [...]
2009: Happy-do, epiphanies, and relentless improvement — It’s funny how much the way you think influences what you experience. I think of this as happy-do: the martial [...]
2008: My Enterprise 2.0 blogroll — A few weeks ago, Jeff Widman asked me what I do to learn more about Enterprise 2.0. I told him [...]
2007: Just ordered Dragon Naturally Speaking – Preferred — I’ve just ordered Dragon Naturally Speaking – Preferred, the best speech recognition program around. I’m not filing this under “Play [...]
2006: Long time no blog — Between family, jetlag, and lack of support for the wireless encryption used on our home networks, I haven’t had much time [...]
2003: Software archaeology — Should look into software archaeology (blogged on 2003.02.26) again.

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