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Goals

I want to be able to spend my days reading, learning, and trying
things out. I want to be able to share what I’ve learned with other
people through writing and speaking. I want to be a generalist,
learning about lots of different ideas and connecting them together. I
want to be able to introduce people to each other when I find synergy,
and I want to be able to pass ideas on to people who can make the most
of them.

The careers that resonate with me the most are technology journalist,
author, and speaker.

The best things I can do today in order to advance those goals are:

Physical Swap bicycles or get a skateboard
Social Keep in touch with family and friends
Mental Read a good book
Spiritual Share the results of my reflection on happiness

Random Japanese sentence: 強盗は屋根からあの邸宅に入ったに違いない。 The cat burglar must have entered the mansion from the roof.

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On This Day...

  • 2012: Transcript: Emacs chat with John Wiegley — This post is long, so if you’re reading this on the main page, go to http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/07/transcript-emacs-chat-john-wiegley/ to view the full [...]
  • 2011: Getting a grip on a large database migration — Michael is working on migrating a custom website with hundreds of database tables to Drupal, and he wanted to know [...]
  • 2010: Thinking about dinner parties — The Toronto Public Library had “Julie & Julia”, so we watched it. (A movie about cooking! Of course.) I smiled [...]
  • 2009: The fullness of days — “How are you?” asked a client after the Canada Day holiday. “Fantastic!” I replied. She was surprised by that. Perhaps she expected [...]
  • 2008: Awesome, I’ve been quoted in Portuguese! — Todas as faces da colaboração? O poder do indivíduo já era. Experiências com colaboração e ferramentas sociais em grandes companhias, como [...]
  • 2007: Flew a kite today — We enjoyed a long weekend because of Canada Day, so we had enough leisure time to make a kite out of [...]
  • 2006: On programming as a career — Raj Shekhar reminded me that software development is a career too, and that there are software companies that use exciting [...]
  • 2006: Going from pre-paid to post-paid — I want to keep in touch with enough people now that the limits on my phone are Rather Annoying. I would [...]
  • 2005: The changing face of Katipunan — My sister had an appointment in the Katipunan area today. She dragged me along because she wanted to do a market [...]
  • 2005: Cleverer and cleverer — My mom called me in a panic. “I just got this message from info AT adphoto.com.ph saying that my e-mail account [...]
  • 2004: STUDYING FOR THE BAR — 55er — “Could you help me analyze this?” “Give me that.” Pages flipped. “The bar’s tomorrow and you’re still having problems? You’d be so [...]
  • 2004: Zaurus accessibility — I know someone who has one, and has been using it. But his immmediate target is people with intellectual disabilities (he’s [...]
  • 2003: Questia — http://www.questia.com, “The World’s Largest Online Library” I really want a subscription to this. It’s USD 119.95 per year, so (* 54 119.95), [...]
  • 2003: Note for class — I should ask them to summarize their notes as tutorials for other people
  • 2003: “Hairy Truth About Computer Images” — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Ming C. Lin’s research has helped advance computer graphics technology and facilitate more lifelike [...]

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