My life as a 25-year-old

Posted on August 9th, 2009 by Sacha Chua

I’ll be turning 26 on Wednesday, and I thought I’d review the past year. I wrote a Ruby program to crunch the tagging statistics of my blog, and I saw some patterns I thought I’d like to share with you. Here’s a tagcloud of the 25th year of my life (showing only popular tags used from Aug 2008 to July 2009). Below it, you can see the biggest losers and biggest gainers in terms of tags, as compared to my life as a 24-year-old.

The drops in Emacs-related posts is because I stopped working on the Wicked Cool Emacs book, which Ian Eure is now working on. Instead, we’ve adopted two cats, I started doing a lot more Drupal at work, and I picked up a few new interests.

It’s pretty cool being able to see things like that. =)

Diagrams were created in Inkscape, after crunching my WordPress XML file using a Ruby REXML stream parser and some OpenOffice.org fiddling.

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Biggest gainers: life

Now that’s always good, right? Totally digging this visualization!

On This Day...

2012: Backyard updates: New shed, garden happiness — After seeing me lug my tank of a bicycle up and down six steps all spring and summer, W- decided [...]
2011: Decision: Piano lessons? — My last piano lesson is on Thursday, so I’m thinking about whether or not to sign up for more lessons, [...]
2010: Sample code for allowing drag-and-drop of Notes/Domino documents (including email) to a table in a plugin — Because I had to piece this together from examples on the Internet, and probably other people do too: Transfer[] transferArray = [...]
2009: Food and shelter, health, love, skill, meaning — W- and I are on our very first staycation. J- will be with us for two weeks, so he figured [...]
2006: Balancing the day — I’ve set aside Wednesdays for catching my breath just in case my weekends are too full, as they tend to be. [...]
2006: May you live in interesting times — Gabriel Mansour just found out how dangerous it is to not have an exciting story when people ak you about [...]
2006: Book: Lifeskills: 8 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships, Communicate More Clearly, Improve Your Health — The book goes into interesting detail about the neurological changes that happen when people get lots of tender loving care. =) [...]
2006: Book: The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One — Worth reading! The Renaissance Soul gives down-to-earth advice for people who thrive on variety and challenges in a number of deep [...]
2006: CookOrDie last Saturday: Decadent Dessert party — I confess: I threw a dessert party just to have an excuse to bake more brownies. You see, I’m a social chocolate [...]
2006: Von Totanes is here! — vonjobi arrived in Toronto this morning. Yay!
2006: Living life online — People often find the public nature of my blog remarkable. They boggle at the idea that I put my task list [...]
2006: Social Tech Brewing: Kristin ? — Kristin talked about how, if you were stuck on something, there was often the assumption that it was because you were [...]
2006: Social Tech Brewing: Sticky stickers — Amber MacArthur took a break during the Social Tech Brewing panel to call attention to the sticker on my laptop and [...]
2006: Social Tech Brewing: Leesa Barnes — Leesa Barnes asked us to reflect on the day(s) that we almost quit technology. She shared her experience in 2004 at [...]
2006: Social Tech Brewing: Hong Zhu — Hong Zhu shared some results of her research into the ways that women from non-traditional backgrounds enter the IT sector. Most [...]
2006: Social Tech Brewing: Cathy Reed and ISisters — Cathy Reed spoke about mentoring through ISisters. She spent ten years as an educational software trainer and consultant, eventually tiring of the mobile [...]
2005: Lessons learned: August 1 – August 7 — People like Tita Sol, her family and friends inspire me. It’s so nice to hear people refer to the Philippines as [...]
2005: Survived my first Toastmasters speech! — I survived the ice breaker! I had drafted talks for all sorts of things: lifehacking, the Philippines, even the weather. None of [...]

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