Interview With God... scenes are stunning! not to mention the quotes that makes perfect sense...

so many things to write, so little time to write...


this tomboy thing is really sweet... i haven't got the time to write a conduit so that my notes automatically become mobile note compatible... the quick and dirty solution would be to just do xsl on the xml files that tomboy produces and transform it to plain wiki syntax that mobile notes understands...

with that said, am being too much dependent on the clie for quite some time now... rarely do i bring the degatto (yes its a brick, but i dont have the money to buy those lightweight centrino laptops you insensitve clod!) anymore... all the usual office stuff, emails and doc editing can be done by this pda... of course i still use a generic workstation for work related things but this pda allows me to carry handy references whenever i go... paired with an 8310, am available to recv email, log on to yahoo messenger and do the google thing whenever the needs arises, and no access point in sight... and yes ssh and vnc is still quite usable even when using a gprs connection... and as an added bonus, these softwares are freely available via freewarepalm.com... what i do spend on this thing are ebooks via ereader.com, which revived my passion for reading... and of course palm powered device is linux and freebsd friendly ;), syncs nicely with evolution... the memstick also allows me to carry one or two cd's worth of audio and the built in camera is very handy for life's never ending kodak moments... now if only santa would give me a wireless (IR) keyboard compatible with the clie tj37, i'd be extremely happy...

work related stuff brings me to SOAP programming to interface with a client's system... quite cool if i could also find the time to try apache axis to expose some of *Services classes to actual web services...

on the degatto side, hands down linux leads the bsd's in supporting a wide range hardware... for now the only thing that doesnt work on this thing is the built in card reader... as of thursday last week i finally figured out to make the built in winmodem work via the slmodem port... the trick is disabling the default serial init script which conflicts with the slmodem init script...

hmmmnnn... its 2am, time to drink coffee, whack the keyboard for another hour, and go to bed...

FreewarePalm: mobile note v0.6 - a free palm app to satisfy your note taking needs... now i have mono tomboy like app on the clie... a tomboy to mobile note converter via a gnome pilot conduit should be a nice project to hack on... wiki wiki never fails to send an erudite tingle on my knee....

hackergotchi howto...

a friend who just recently arrived from canada was kind enough to give me Crest SpinBrush pro... this is the first electric toothbrush that i owned and i must say this thing does wonders to your teeth... you will really have that just went from the dentist feeling... toothbrush tech at its finest... the only problem is where to find replacement heads here in the philippines...

here's another sweet app -> Tomboy... insanely usable for multi-tasking drones... an app like this should be standard on the palm or pocket pc's as it makes those random notes a bit useful...

this iaudio digital music player seems a good competitor to ipod... pretty sweet...

the past few months had been a futile battle with this telco refusing to acknowledge the fact that the postpaid sim was stolen and we are certainly not paying that rediculous bill... obviously they have a record of the history of this account and can see that it was clearly stolen due to the number of load transfers in a span of a few hours (also the fact that this account was in good standing for more than a year)... aside from the fact that it was reported and we immediately asked for a replacement sim and also furnished a letter detailing the incident, submitted an affidavit and spent a fair amount of time talking with their credit and collection officers... *sigh* to cut the story short in the end we were demanded to pay the whole amount and we have no choice but to comply since the number is the hotline for our clients (we did sent a letter indicating that we are paying under protest)...

but my point is, since the amount of phone calls (during the time the phone was stolen) was quite minimal and just a bit above the monthly plan, it was the transfer a load amount that was way pas the credit limit, isnt it clearly this telco's fault that they allowed the bill go past the credit limit? what the hell is this credit limit for???

second, the transfer a load feature doesnt have enough security to prevent unauthorized use of the service, in our case the thief was able to transfer load amounting to PHP10k quite easily because nothing prevented him from doing it... also the service is enabled by default, the subscriber did not request for it... the analogy would be like having a credit card company deliver a credit card extension with no security feature to your door and somebody finds it before you do, uses it, and you are demanded to pay for it...

and the sad thing is they just tell you that your request to clear that account is denied and you have to pay... they dont !#@$!@# give you the courtesy of even explaining to you the real reason why... and as if we do not have enough problems already, and that amount is way too high for mere mortals like us living in a place where the cost of living rises daily...

browsing ka edongs blog, i got curious and followed the link to Cell Phone Theft - INQ7.net... the stories are really depressing... manila is a dangerous place to live... and all i can do is *sigh*...

Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux... really sweet app... open source goodness good enough for daily web development use...

my dear ninongs and ninangs its my birthday today! you can bring your gifts and kids later at 4pm today... *hehehe*

interesting... for some strange reason i was able to get the usb gsm modem to work via usbserial and pl2303 kernel module... strange i tried this setup february.. before the elections *grin* and it just didnt work and i have to reformat the machine to win2003... ok the next step is to check out if i can get the same behaviour on hte beastie box... also time to read those gsm at comand set again and see how well this modem performs... at least there's no need to order those serial models which requires a separate power adaptor...

Free Programming and Computer Science Books, cool reference site...

the new Tungsten T5 Handheld is a great disappointment... it simply sucks... users should choose the older T3 over this one... feature per feature and probably if the price of the T3 falls it would be stupid to buy this new tungsten device...

sadly sony has withdrawn from the pda market... imho, they really excel on handheld innovations... am pretty sure the sony engineers are laughing on this recent tungstend incarnation...

if palmone continues this trend, users probably woudl switch to pocket pc's in the long run...

hard work paying off... contract got extended... really nice feedback from the ceo himself... makes me want to work even harder...

along with comes the dreaded version 2 syndrome... its time to put more effort on quality... ok, team lets get to work...

life progressing... nothing constant... children growing... friends getting married... everybody seems a lot older than they used to be...

yesterday, i took some quality time with the youngest, smelling those soft folds of skin around his neck and gently kissing his cheek... i ponder on the future of my kids... exciting as it may seem, knowing what i know now, its gonna be one heck of a journey...

i only have a handful of photos during my childhood... but my two kids already has hundreds of them... if i could afford a digital video camera it may be hours of mpeg already... again i wonder, what technology would be available to them when they grow up? *sigh* life is full of questions...

been a while... a lot has happened lately...

turned 27 last last week (17th)... a milestone age perhaps... home cooked spaghetti and cake was rather delicious... the best tasting cake courtesy of my officemates... i got two adorable kids, an insanely cute baby boy and a little girl that never fails to test my patience, makes me laugh, all at the same time... a rather patient and equally beautiful wife makes life worth living as well...

got a new 2.5" hdisk... tried ubuntu (a rather up to date debian distro, will tinker with it some other day)... tried suse (rpm hell)... tried freebsd (acpi troubles remain, will wait for stable)... went back to gentoo (spent the entire weekend compiling)...

gnome 2.8 rocks! if your video card doesnt support DRI, you should turn off xcomposite extensions as gnome 2.8 has composite support enabled by default and will make your desktop rather sluggish.. garret's industrial firefox theme is really sweet... after pimping my desktop, i googled to finally put an end to firefox crashing everytime i load a flash enabled site... turns out you have to adjust your xorg to support at least 24bpp....

currently trying out bacula as the HITACHI_DK23EA-40 that comes with the degatto now has bad sectors... i noticed that since last week hdparm config was taking a lot longer than normal... dmesg reveals dma and driveseek error... running badblocks revealed that my /var is indeed has a number of bad sectors on it... luckily its still covered by the one year warranty... the downside is it would take two weeks till the replacement would come in... sigh...

finally got the *TIME* to finally configure the cvs... yipee!!! onwards to version 2! team, lets synchronize! yay!

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