my lappy is now so hoary...

go figure! ;-)

my 1 year 2 months 17 days old degatto is already suffering from short term memory loss :( ... ntp seems to be a alleviate the problem but annoying nevertheless..

am also *this* close in wiping out this gentoo on the degatto and replacing it with ubuntu... compiling on your main workstation seems to get in me after almost a year of of compiling and updating everything every weekend... should be absolutely fine on servers but on a workstation, its really a very different story...

since using ubuntu on the machine at work daily for a few months, it certainly seems less bloated than other distros... yes, gentoo lets you optimize and customize to the max but at a certain point seems unnecessary/overkill for a moderately modern machine... hmmnn... must be getting old, modifying build parameters doesnt excite me as they used to...

The Broadband Blog ? SIP: Fun and Frolics in Communications... will pluck you later...

Meralco: Appliance Calculator (a.k.a. M.A.C.) seems pretty handy...it doesnt seem to include transmision charge, system loss charge, distribution charge, supply charge, metering charge, CERA etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc...

Managed to compile Muine Music Player... rather sweet! clean and uncluttered... anti-skins kick-ass music player!



has panel notification support... great for screen-size-challenged individuals like me...

due to the relatively new found joy in having a working distcc setup again. i decided to upgrade my current Evolution 2.0.2 to evolution 2.0.3... which, based on the changelogs would offer better imap handling... true enough imap handling was improved (a tad faster than the former version)... the downside, i can no longer load my calendar, contacts and todo's since evolution-data-server would crash at every attempt... *sigh* the perils of being an open-source upgrade-happy junkie...

luckily, i remembered doing this before the upgrade -> tar cvjf ~/backup/evolution.012105.tbz ~/.evolution

as brutally candid this jaredean java guro may seem... he can sure put code where his mouth is... however, that is not the point... what is to be applauded is his unselfish effort of doing example driven articles like this -> Jared's Tech Blogs: Additional Info for ActiveMQ...

SwingingThePendulum - GNOME Live! presentation from nat friedman... insightful... a more recent one by seth nickel here -> experimental culture...

manong's tv enabled tricyle!



pardon my poor clie's camera... that glowing white rectangle is the mini tv showing channel 7's evening news program... and since am nothing but an indigent-pda-toting consultant, all i could give manong was an extra 2 pesos (added to the usual 18 peso fare) and a compliment "galeng ng tricyle mo manong! merong tv on board! mamaya ipo-post ko ito sa aking blog. malay mo balang araw may maka discover po sainyo at mapanood kayo sa tv!"...

P.S. manong is available for an interview from monday to saturday... just look for him at the tricycle loading spot at the corner of Cyberzone at the back of SM North Edsa...

Common Dreams... fascinating views... hope we could come up with a local version of this...

Componentizing Spring and Hibernate Development - Confluence... will read this later...

the new JDO seems really neat too... will tackle that one little by little...

finally managed to have a bit of time to properly setup distcc on the degatto... now all the software packages compiling on this gentoo based machine is off-loaded to a freebsd based workstation... this makes the degatto fans a bit happy since the less load on the cpu means less heat... its probably doing its paean of thanks to distcc by now...

from sachachua: Digital Pinay 2005: A great leap _backward_ in promoting women in IT... wtf! PCS has caused quite a stir in the local IT community... major blunder!

stumbled upon this story Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?... what troubles me more is the reality that there are a lot of misinformed people (parents mind you) that needs a lot of enlightenment... i dont know if this article is a joke... but any level headed parent should think twice before even considering these things... anyway, it was filed under the "Internet Idiocy" category... you be the judge... ;)

should be in the amusement category if you ask me... :)

the joy's of parenthood... currently, this girl is the only homo sapien that can push the limits of my patience and max out the happiness meter in me...



all else considered... being a dad rocks!

another truly awesome webapp ->map.search.ch

wow! our very own Jan Alonzo is now the official maintainer of straw (stand alone rss aggregator app) according to Juri Pakaste's latest blog... nice to see a FIlipino getting recognition (and doing some action!) in the open-source arena....

my gulay! according to this fake pala yung last post ko... it wasn't related at al to the recent tsunami... but those creatures are real ones tho...

pictures of strange/scary looking sea creatures found by russian divers near? the tsunami sites... with all these mars explorations the earth's ocean still packs a lot of mystery to modern science...

speaking of nostalgia... i once wrote this pseudo poem at Elmo's old guestbook (kangkong series circa 98-99)...

ewan
(electric fan 1998)

ewan ko ewan mo,
pero pu!@#$!#$ ang galing mo...
mundong ibabaw,
kaligayahang malabnaw....

lol ang sabe nila,
he he he naman sa iba...
pero bakit nga ba,
kailangan pang tumawa...

wala akong masabe,
itanong mo man sa ale...
kase kahit liwanag ng buwan,
parang nde ko na rin masakyan...

saludo ako sayo tol,
ipagpatuloy parang ulol...
malupit man ang mundo,
patuloy pa rin tayong mga gago....

haha... the angst of youth... indirect results of coding in C/C++ and living amidst the virtual world of IRC's...