sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2013: Quantified Awesome: Time and building mastery — There’s an often-repeated number in studies on expertise: it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in order to build a [...]
• 2012: Weekly review: Week ending February 3, 2012 — Two weeks to go before I leave IBM. My current project is in user acceptance testing, and I’ve addressed practically [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending February 4, 2011 — Plans from last week Work [X] Help at Lotusphere as a room monitor [X] Potentially host a [...]
• 2011: On appearance and bias: thoughts from the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011 — One of the topics of great interest during the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011 was that of appearance. [...]
• 2010: I’d like to build the post-connector workplace — In a large organization, there are two ways to create great value: you can know a lot, or you can [...]
• 2009: A thousand ways that didn’t work — I spent the entire afternoon trying to figure out how I can do a live teleconference with screensharing so that [...]
• 2007: I can afford to raise my rent — Is the experience of being able to live on my own worth the loss of a little compound interest? I haven’t [...]
• 2007: They’re just material things… — … and I shouldn’t get attached to them, but it’s frustrating coming back to find stuff missing: two of my Corelle [...]
• 2006: Why I like the Emacs editor — Most editors treat everyone the same. Emacs, on the other hand, becomes uniquely yours – tamed, like the fox in The [...]
• 2006: Cold and raining outside, warm and fuzzy inside — The weather today was absolutely horrible. As my sister would say, “It rained little animals.” Well, alternately rained and snowed. I [...]
• 2004: Advice for social networking services — http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/02/my_advice_to_so.html
• 2004: Bot implants — Freaked someone out with my data collection capabilities. ;) sachac: you know so much about me! shapr: Whoops. [...]
• 2004: Internationalization/localization in Filipino — From Mike S. Lacanilao on PLUG: this only reminds me that we filipino dont really like to have or at least [...]
• 2004: Checking for unmatched parentheses — M-x check-parens
• 2004: Eric’s testimonial — I know a hacker named Eric, Who is certainly not geek generic     He is better than me     At music and C And in graphics [...]
• 2004: coke made a background — coke made a desktop background using one of my pictures. Here’s the thumbnail: ../pics/sacha_of_borg_thumb.png If you want to grab the picture, get it [...]
• 2004: Reading a book in Emacspeak — From Nath on the emacspeak mailing list: You can try C-e n which will read you the text until you stop [...]