Author Archives: leehsueh

30 Days of Thanksgiving, Day 1

A couple friends of mine have completed a “30 days of thanksgiving” blog thingy. I thought it would be good for me to do as well, to challenge me not only to be more aware of God’s blessings in everyday, but to post more regularly on this thing and practice writing…sort of. So, what is …

September 25, 2011 – 8:14 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Stanford, Thanksgiving | Comments (0)

Beginnings of LDT

This week was my orientation at Stanford’s School of Education. On Monday and Tuesday there was a workshop for my program (LDT) that introduced us to the “design thinking” process. Essentially it is a wildly collaborative and creative approach to problem-solving. I thought our facilitator gave a really nice graphical sketch of what design thinking …

September 22, 2011 – 11:27 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Information and Technology, Stanford, Updates | Tagged | Comments (0)

Django Documentation on Writing a Custom Backend

Edit: Today is a special day, because I forked my first github repo! +1 geek points. https://github.com/leehsueh/django-janrain ——————————- Another nerdy post which may be of some use to a random novice django developer like myself. Feel free to ignore unless you get a kick out of my programming frustrations. One of the reasons why I …

September 11, 2011 – 4:02 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Web Development | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Evaluating Lightroom 3 vs. Aperture 3

Today I spent pretty much the whole day trying to figure out whether I should use Adobe Lightroom 3 or Apple’s Aperture 3. Here’s what I want to ultimately accomplish: store my photos on an external drive be able to edit/retouch non-destructively select photos without being tethered to my external drive localized adjustments I downloaded …

August 21, 2011 – 7:31 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Leisure | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Setting Up the Macbook Air for Development

Reference for self: installing PostgreSQL (thanks to this forum thread for resolving the issue I was getting) install XCode (comes with SVN and Git integration) installing django first I tried to do this with svn, but the command failed…so I decided to install SVN from macports. It finally just finished in the time it took …

August 16, 2011 – 11:20 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Updates | Comments (0)

RE Mental Set Failure

This past Sabbath I taught a lesson on “Taming the Tongue” to my J1 students. For the mental set, I thought I would ask the students to recall anything that another person said (preferably also present in the classroom) that for one reason or another, sticks in their mind, good or bad. The point of …

July 25, 2011 – 10:06 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Thoughts | Comments (2)

The Sweet Psalmist of Israel

Thank God, last week I was able to spend several hours after work at Pacifica church to pseudo-attend EWR (and enjoy delicious free dinners). Below is my attempt at contributing a devotional, which is something I have not done in awhile. The process of editing/peer review was refreshingly rigorous and is something that I had …

July 10, 2011 – 3:44 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in LM, Reflection, Spiritual | Tagged , | Comments (0)