sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2012: Quantified Awesome: Analyzing my cellphone data — I’m curious about how much I use my cellphone, and for what purposes. Does it make sense to switch plans? [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending June 18, 2011 — Tired after lots of biking, cooking, and gardening, but it’s a happy sort of tired. New hack working well: leaving [...]
• 2011: An abundance of cilantro, now freezing in cubes; strawberries and peas — Awesome Garden Lady down the street gave us two large bunches of lettuce and a bag of cilantro, so I [...]
• 2010: Planning ahead — I like planning ahead. Thinking through best-case scenarios and wild successes helps me clarify the decisions I need to make [...]
• 2009: Social media and education — There’s an insightful 82-page PDF entitled Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy. Support for [...]
• 2009: Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice — The second session in the Taking the Stage women’s leadership program I’m taking at IBM was called The Power of [...]
• 2009: Twitter brings down walls — In addition to Twitter, YouTube has been a critical tool to spread videos from Iran when traditional media outlets have [...]
• 2009: 129 summer camp ideas — J- doesn’t want to go to any camps this summer. Instead, she’ll try to come up with interesting things to [...]
• 2009: Notes from the Social Recruiting Summit — I love being part of industry conferences outside my field. I learn so much from the sessions and the conversations, [...]
• 2007: Monday rituals — It’s Monday! Mondays are getting easier and easier for me. My Sunday ritual of reviewing the past week and planning the next [...]
• 2005: Planner support for action-lock.el — action-lock.el is part of HOWM. The following code enables Planner-style links _anywhere_. Add it to your ~/.emacs and use M-x action-lock-mode to turn [...]
• 2004: Got my TOEFL score back! — I got 297 out of 300. Perfect essay. Made one mistake in the listening section, though. Oh well! <laugh> It was [...]
• 2004: More nuggets from the luser who’s trying to hit on me — Out of the Minix OS there rose the linux 0.01 kernel. If u did not used it and depend much with [...]
• 2004: Clueless lamer — Hah. Just got a text message from someone with a high luser rating. Helo sacha. Ur a linux chiq i suppose. [...]