sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2013: Quantified Awesome: Analyzing time data–the questions I ask and how I answer them — I track my time using QuantifiedAwesome.com because I’ve built an interface that fits the way I work (mobile/web, lets me [...]
• 2012: Numbers from rereading more than ten years of my blog — I’ve been rereading more than ten years of my blog posts, rating each of the entries on a scale of [...]
• 2011: Decision review: Kitchen counter computing (ad hoc standing desk) — I switched to using the kitchen counter as my standing desk last month, and it’s working really well. I like [...]
• 2011: This is what my blog looks like on paper — I’ve switched to printing out my blog archives monthly instead of yearly, so now I’m all caught up again. It’s [...]
• 2010: On libraries at school — Some of my fondest memories at school are of libraries, of devouring whatever caught my eye from the stacks. It [...]
• 2009: Garden updates — The six-week bush beans are up, and so are the carrots. The edamame I planted on a whim has germinated, [...]
• 2007: Business cards — I changed my business card design again. This time I’m doing a 2 x 2 experiment testing the effect of my [...]
• 2006: Linen spray — The hotel provided lavender linen spray. Ah, wonderful! High thread-count sheets, a mountain of pillows, a few tasteful paintings hung on the [...]
• 2006: Not a stranger — We made it to the tail end of the reception for the summit in Connecticut. It was just so amazing walking [...]
• 2006: Yay, back online — I had to reload the module. =) Random Japanese sentence: 私は私の可愛い猫を自慢に思っています。 I am proud of my pretty cat.
• 2006: ARGH — My Net connection has mysteriously stopped working. Random Japanese sentence: 猫がバスの前に走ってきて轢かれた。 The cat ran right in front of the bus and was [...]
• 2003: Fixed PHP bug in home page — Thanks to Thomas Gehrlein for pointing out embarrassing bug!