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On This Day...

• 2008: Week ending Oct 12 — Text: IBM's Innovation Jam was a lot of fun. I focused on it because it was a great opportunity to connect [...]
• 2008: Sewing: Red jacket, V8343 — I'm working on a red jacket now. I've been meaning to pick up a red jacket, but I'd never found [...]
• 2007: Setting priorities — For once, my random Emacs symbol is strangely apropos. There will never be enough time in the day, and it's easier [...]
• 2007: Through the fear — I'm not afraid of heights, just falling. I _enjoy_ the challenge of speaking in front of people or turning up in [...]
• 2007: Taking portraits of people — Ian Irving was kind enough to not only introduce me to a wonderful little cafe (Lou's Coffee Bar at Runnymede [...]
• 2007: Chapter is taking shape — After a little bit of [[http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/2007.10.12.php#anchor-2][thinking about Org and Planner]], I'm starting to feel more comfortable with the chapter that I'm writing. I [...]
• 2007: How I came to love Emacs — Riffing off P.F. Hawkins' post on how he came to love Emacs, let me tell you my story. =) I wasn't [...]
• 2007: Switching mindsets — One of the interesting side-effects of writing this book on Emacs is that I get to stretch my brain by trying [...]
• 2007: Circus school — The static trapeze lessons I've been taking are tons of fun and great motivation to exercise more. (11 straight days [...]
• 2006: Stretch — I love looking back at the day and knowing that I finished everything I set out to do. I can get [...]
• 2006: Emacs and a British voice — There's something about deep, deep cultural programming. Anything spoken with a British accent just sounds infinitely cool. Everyone uses the default voice [...]
• 2006: Emacs: Quick way to collect references — (defvar sacha/planner-collector-buffer nil "Buffer for collecting links.") (defun sacha/planner-collect-reference () (interactive) (let ((text (sacha/yank-blog-reference-for-summary))) (with-current-buffer sacha/planner-collector-buffer [...]
• 2006: Meeting minutes from KMD2004 — Started 2:20 PM Ended 3:00 PM Attendance: Dave Kemp, Sacha Chua Talked about tentative plans for lit review. Sacha will probably choose one [...]
• 2005: Stepping outside my comfort zone — I get a thrill out of speaking at the edge of my comfort zone. In my Toastmasters speech about rediscovering theatre, [...]
• 2005: Speech practice — I've just realized how amazingly useful a digital voice recorder is in preparing for a speech. I can record myself, listen [...]
• 2005: Novell usability results — From David Tang of Novell: Extensive usability research, including video trials, is now available to developers worldwide at betterdesktop.openSUSE.org Totally awesome! Good karma [...]
• 2005: Toastmasters Humorous Speech contest tomorrow — Searching the Net for tips on Toastmasters humorous speech competitions, I ran across Steve Pavlina's blog entry about his division's humorous [...]
• 2005: Nearly full CPU utilization — This week is quite a challenge. Two major things on my plate: the Toastmasters competition tomorrow and the lab report due [...]
• 2005: MIE mishaps — I'm starting to think that my class finds me amusing. They laugh whenever they see me get stressed out. Today was supposed [...]
• 2004: Finished 300 kanji book! — It's a bit hard to believe that we've managed to finish the 300 kanji book that seemed so intimidating back when [...]
• 2004: Places Ranulf wants to go to — Chicago: 6-31-21 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku. On Omotesando Dori, between Meiji Dori and Harajuku Station. (Near Meiji Jingumae or Harajuku.) Great! I went to [...]
• 2004: Contact information for Ranulf's conference — +81-3-348-58492 APR Workshop on the role of ICT in the Youth Programme
• 2004: Japanese technical vocabulary — Thought I should start blogging the technical words I find on mailing lists. =) Warning: translations are just my guesses... ·ë¶É¡¢¤ä¤ê¤¿¤¤¤³¤È¤Ï¥Õ¥¡¥¤¥ë¶¦Í­¤Ç¤¹¤«¡£ Is file [...]
• 2004: u-color-cycle.el — Ulf Jasper's u-color-cycle.el smoothly changes the color of all text in a window or region while you stare at it, mesmerized. It [...]
• 2004: ssh-copy-id — ssh-copy-id copies the id_dsa.pub file located in your .ssh/ to machine2 using ssh. It sets up the authorized_key file and permissions [...]
• 2003: ARGH! — Ctrl-c'd my oocalc instead of my appletviewer.
• 2003: Anonymous quote from Mario's sig — I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose [...]
• 2003: Lambda the Ultimate, a programming weblog — http://lambda.weblogs.com/departments

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