Touchdown at 12:45am.
The last bus has just left.
Next bus 4:30.
Here I am, stuck at the moment. Good thing wifi is free. Can't configure Globe roaming on the Treo. I manually selected available networks but no dice. Either my Globe postpaid isn't yet configured for roaming (as opposed to what I had been told by the helpline), or the trouble is with the Treo.
Haven't slept a wink. Budget travel doesn't guarantee a working recline switch. Imagine the two other person beside you dreamfully taking a nap in a slightly reclined manner, and your stuck with your seat in upright position. Oh well, that's life.
Had my first taste of "Nasi Lemak", spicy! I choosed the beef version. Its like beefsilog aimed squarely for the chili loving Bicolanos. Never thought that rice and fried salted peanuts would actually taste good together. Didn't finish it all however, am still pacing my baby-fat-flaunting stomach.
1.5hrs till the next bus.
sleepy nox
-- miss ko na ang aming kama, at ang malupit kong unan...
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Terminal Musings
Different worlds,
different people,
different faces,
different languages,
all waiting,
to fly
neath the moon
and the starry skies...
Samantalang ako,
may naiwan,
luhaan,
excited,
scared,
thrilled,
sad,
slightly looking forward,
antok,
puso ko,
kanina,
slightly nadurog.
Anak ng 365 na tipaklong,
homesick,
shit!
and to think
I haven't left yet,
bakit nga ba,
the world needs pera
And my katabi,
naka macbook pa.
But still,
amidst all of this.
I still miss,
my son's laughter
the witty conversations
with my daughter
The warm embrace
only my wife could offer.
Tonight will definitely be colder.
traveler nox
-- never mind the mosquito bites...
different people,
different faces,
different languages,
all waiting,
to fly
neath the moon
and the starry skies...
Samantalang ako,
may naiwan,
luhaan,
excited,
scared,
thrilled,
sad,
slightly looking forward,
antok,
puso ko,
kanina,
slightly nadurog.
Anak ng 365 na tipaklong,
homesick,
shit!
and to think
I haven't left yet,
bakit nga ba,
the world needs pera
And my katabi,
naka macbook pa.
But still,
amidst all of this.
I still miss,
my son's laughter
the witty conversations
with my daughter
The warm embrace
only my wife could offer.
Tonight will definitely be colder.
traveler nox
-- never mind the mosquito bites...
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Decisions
Big fish in a small pond, or
Small fish in a big pond.
Or everyone wants to be a frackin' piranha?
Small fish in a big pond.
Or everyone wants to be a frackin' piranha?
Sunday, March 25, 2007
JPG Magazine
NatGeo quality photos without the nagging advertisements for now.
I like the theme, keeping it real. No photography/digital art non-sense. They like photos that capture what is "there" instead of an alternate reality depicting photoshop-induced artistry.
shutter nox
-- keepin it real...
I like the theme, keeping it real. No photography/digital art non-sense. They like photos that capture what is "there" instead of an alternate reality depicting photoshop-induced artistry.
shutter nox
-- keepin it real...
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Of Doll's and Marriage
Fresh from the inbox. This cracked me up!
A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about. For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,” she said, “my grandmother
told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.”
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness.
“Honey,” he said, “that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?”. “Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.”
husband nox
-- the joys of marriage...
A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about. For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,” she said, “my grandmother
told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.”
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness.
“Honey,” he said, “that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?”. “Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.”
husband nox
-- the joys of marriage...
Friday, March 23, 2007
Diggnation Vidcast on PSP
Wooooottt!!!
Am probably the last person to try this, having had the PSP since last year but never really got to try this feature since I was stuck with the 1.5 firmware.
Oh my, this is really shiny!
If I could get smoothjazz.com to stream on this thingy, that would really be rockingly shiny!
Am probably the last person to try this, having had the PSP since last year but never really got to try this feature since I was stuck with the 1.5 firmware.
Oh my, this is really shiny!
If I could get smoothjazz.com to stream on this thingy, that would really be rockingly shiny!
Location Free Television in Tokyo
Via Slashdot.
Picture this.
- You are an OFW.
- The Filipino Channel (TFC) for you is an expensive luxury.
- You got $200 plus to spare for a Location Free device (get the cheaper wired only model).
- You got reliable and cheap DSL connection back in the Philipines.
- You got some decent understanding of how TCP/IP works.
With location free, you can watch your favorite local shows (PBA, Teleseryes, etc) on your lappy-tappy, PSP and other supported devices anywhere with an internet connection.
Yes, you can currently time shift almost any video/audio at this current day and age, so why bother with location free? Well, this one is real time, meaning you can watch the local shows live!
Hooray! for the flat world.
Picture this.
- You are an OFW.
- The Filipino Channel (TFC) for you is an expensive luxury.
- You got $200 plus to spare for a Location Free device (get the cheaper wired only model).
- You got reliable and cheap DSL connection back in the Philipines.
- You got some decent understanding of how TCP/IP works.
With location free, you can watch your favorite local shows (PBA, Teleseryes, etc) on your lappy-tappy, PSP and other supported devices anywhere with an internet connection.
Yes, you can currently time shift almost any video/audio at this current day and age, so why bother with location free? Well, this one is real time, meaning you can watch the local shows live!
Hooray! for the flat world.
Stream iTunes to your PSP
Sweeeeeettt!
With a bit more RSS XML whackery, mt-daapd can probably do the job. :))
Got to refresh my aging PERL kung-fu if the lazy web doesn't have a solution available at the moment.
With a bit more RSS XML whackery, mt-daapd can probably do the job. :))
Got to refresh my aging PERL kung-fu if the lazy web doesn't have a solution available at the moment.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
PSP Update
3.10 Custom Firmware is out!
Tried updating our PSP last night because am interested in the slightly faster browsing experience the new firmware has to offer. Since this is a firmware flash, the risk of bricking is quite real. Fortunately the update process went smoothly and the PSP came out unscathed.
The update lets me for the first time try viewing the videos included in the sample UMD disc. And boy the screen is absolutely gorgeous! The spiderman 2 preview was difinitely shiny to watch on the PSP screen.
The update also updated the audio player. It now have a visual display akin to what you see on modern day media players. Pretty shiny still.
Sony should provide RSS feed reader for text tho. Until now you can only view video and audio RSS feeds. An email client would also add to this handheld's appeal. On the accessory side, an external keyboard will tripple the shiny factor of this little bugger. A driver for the Palm's Universal Keyboard will make this a really sweet machine.
Another app that Sony should add is a VOIP client. PSP with VOIP or Skype integration will really make it rock!
Anyway web browsing is a tad faster. Something that made me do the update in the first place. Still trying to find a decent web based RSS reader as Google still doesn't have a mobile version of its Google Reader app.
Tried updating our PSP last night because am interested in the slightly faster browsing experience the new firmware has to offer. Since this is a firmware flash, the risk of bricking is quite real. Fortunately the update process went smoothly and the PSP came out unscathed.
The update lets me for the first time try viewing the videos included in the sample UMD disc. And boy the screen is absolutely gorgeous! The spiderman 2 preview was difinitely shiny to watch on the PSP screen.
The update also updated the audio player. It now have a visual display akin to what you see on modern day media players. Pretty shiny still.
Sony should provide RSS feed reader for text tho. Until now you can only view video and audio RSS feeds. An email client would also add to this handheld's appeal. On the accessory side, an external keyboard will tripple the shiny factor of this little bugger. A driver for the Palm's Universal Keyboard will make this a really sweet machine.
Another app that Sony should add is a VOIP client. PSP with VOIP or Skype integration will really make it rock!
Anyway web browsing is a tad faster. Something that made me do the update in the first place. Still trying to find a decent web based RSS reader as Google still doesn't have a mobile version of its Google Reader app.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Location Free
Wow, this is seriously redundantly shiny!
Its like taking your PSP on steroids.
The network is the computer!
Its like taking your PSP on steroids.
The network is the computer!
Google Themes
Since I use Google's personalized homepage as the default for all my browsers, the newly added theme-ing feature is rather shiny!
Take it for a spin, for now its restricted to a set of pre-defined themes, but knowing Google, expect user contributed/hacked versions in the future.
Take it for a spin, for now its restricted to a set of pre-defined themes, but knowing Google, expect user contributed/hacked versions in the future.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Best Career Advice in less than 30 seconds.
This early, I also encourage and tell my kids to do well in school, and someday have their own company. For me its quite important not to limit them by saying "study hard so that you can land a good job after school". I want them to grow up with the entrepreneurial mindset.
And last but not the least, I hope they grow up to be a global Filipino, exploring and learning the new flat world.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Flower Power!
Haven't blog in a while. Been too busy coding the Philippines coolest online tourism portal lately. I still have a ton of images to process during our Baguio Panagbenga trip.
Here is a teaser for now.
Here is a teaser for now.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
My Current Heroes
In no frackin' particular order.
- Apache mod alias "Redirect" feature. Smashingly shiny! Saved my butt because tiny_mce somehow ain't doing relative url mapping.
- JPEGImageEncode/Decoder and JPEGCodec bundled with most JDK's. Automatic server side image resizing galore. No more excuses to not accept high resolution images.
- The lazy web, for providing algorithms to keep that frackin' image aspect ratio.
Some thoughts, making an application user friendly is like asking a makeup artist to make her model look natural. Its a long and not so easy process.
dev nox
-- drag and drop, resize on demand, server side processing junkie...
- Apache mod alias "Redirect" feature. Smashingly shiny! Saved my butt because tiny_mce somehow ain't doing relative url mapping.
- JPEGImageEncode/Decoder and JPEGCodec bundled with most JDK's. Automatic server side image resizing galore. No more excuses to not accept high resolution images.
- The lazy web, for providing algorithms to keep that frackin' image aspect ratio.
Some thoughts, making an application user friendly is like asking a makeup artist to make her model look natural. Its a long and not so easy process.
dev nox
-- drag and drop, resize on demand, server side processing junkie...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Canola!
The Nokia N800 loaded with Canola is terribly sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttt!!!
However, I still dream of that dastardly result of combining the Sony PSP gaming system and the Maemo OS. That would really be undeniably shiny!
The Myth Of Talent
Worth the read. The download-able article argues that "talent is a set of skills you develop over time through desire". Not the typical "its either you have it or you don't".
Monday, March 05, 2007
Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Watch
Santa, its still a long time till Christmas, but maybe this could give you a headstart.
My fervent dreams of location based apps would definitely benefit from this
gadget nox
-- wishful thinking...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Musings
- Frack! Broke my left eyeglass when am just about to leave the house this morning. Replacement would set me back 700 bucks. That's life.
- Loving NBA Live 2007 on the PSP. Makes me look forward to the train rides on my everday commute. Love the live commentaries and the much improved gameplay. My current season standing: 5 wins - 4 losses. Not bad for a newbie.Next game against the Bucks.
- Loving NBA Live 2007 on the PSP. Makes me look forward to the train rides on my everday commute. Love the live commentaries and the much improved gameplay. My current season standing: 5 wins - 4 losses. Not bad for a newbie.Next game against the Bucks.
nox
-- on a northbound train...
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