sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2013: Planning my code/development learning — One of the best things about programming is that as you learn more, the possibilities increase dramatically. Each new thing [...]
• 2012: Setting things in motion — The more people I talk to about my plans for leaving IBM and experimenting with business, the more real the [...]
• 2011: Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination — Using rational economics to analyze what I do for fun seems to have paid off. By changing the costs and [...]
• 2010: Every teachable moment —   What is it like being a geek? It means being surrounded by opportunities to teach, even at the dinner [...]
• 2006: A waste of mangoes — <sigh> I miss the Philippines and mangoes that ripen beautifully. I tried one of the mangoes today, and it wasn’t sweet. [...]
• 2006: Who Moved My Oatmeal? — My oatmeal has gone missing. I really, really, really should’ve scribbled my name on it. I wrote a note on my receipt [...]
• 2006: Scopus – scholarly search on steroids — I am totally in love with Scopus. Try using it to search for scholarly papers. It pwns Google Scholar for [...]
• 2006: Metadata class — The metadata class was okay. The professor doesn’t just read off the slides. She tells stories sometimes, too. I’m glad that [...]
• 2005: Carelessness — I have misplaced both my very pretty black bonnet with stars and my black muffler, and am somewhat put out by [...]
• 2005: A weekend in Kansai — I had a relaxing weekend in Kansai, hopping from Kobe to Kyoto and then to Osaka. Tita Cora is also fond [...]
• 2004: Benefits of color-coding — Psychological benefit of color-coding #A tasks – I feel much better when I get rid of all the red marks! =)
• 2004: Weblogs as Filing Cabinets — http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/businessInnovation/2003/03/03.html Weblogs could be a mechanism to coherently codify and ‘publish’ in a completely voluntary and personal manner the individual worker’s entire [...]
• 2004: The First Letter — Fiction, resemblance to real-life characters somewhat intentional but don’t read anything into this, as I’m making much of it up. Helpful comments: It’s [...]
• 2004: Story — Deleted, lost secret key