Its the Indian, not the Pana

Although, at this day and age, a better Pana can compensate for the not so skilled indian. Hehehe.

Some shots to justify to my lovey that its worth it.







Simply because, captured moments like these are priceless. :D

Hidalgo Adventure

Hidalgo Adventure

Currently in Hidalgo waiting for the shops to open. Hoping to take advantage of the "buena mano" factor to haggle to the last penny. Hoping mang ramon is on a good mood this morn. Hayyy...

Wish me luck. :D

Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 Lens (Black)

And when I dream, I dream of you...

Am bitten by the shutter bug, really hard...

The inspirational thread by John "Magic Eye" Chua, is really amplifying the desire even more...

Oh well, sabi nga doon sa thread, "Mangarap ka ng gising". Other notable quotes: "Its the indian and not the pana!". And that a photographer doesnt snap a picture, HE CREATES A PICTURE!

Dream on...

Bob Dylan's iTunes Ad

Modern times for the good ol' rock fellow...

Times are indeed a-changin...

Pentium 4 woes

One of the P4 2.4ghz machine is now only 1.8ghz. Granted its 3 years old. Oh well...

Blog test

Blog test

One, two, tres...

Q&A: Linux Guns for Desktop - OSNews.com

This is related to the issue I had brought up with BiOS a few months back.

In order to have a more efficient advocacy, we have to think past one day affairs such as SFD's! Am not implying we don't have SFD's, am implying we should have plans/strategies aside from SFD's. Choice is good, but thats a hard sell to new users you want to entice to use FOSS.

Oh well... Moving on...

Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

Shiny!

Hopefully this will drive the cost of a brand new 350D down. :D

Battery Exchange Program iBook G4 and PowerBook G4

Wooot!!!

My iBook is included in the recall. Am eligible to get a new replacement battery for my just out of warranty Bookah Wookah!

Kudos for Apple for being responsible enough. Gotta love the customer love.

Good times :D

Bicolano.org - Beta

Busy, busy bee...

Now on its 3rd attempt, because baby you can bet your pwet I'll do it again. :D

Madya na! Payt sana!

Why is Linux Successful?

You've got to be kidding me?

While certain factors cited there was true, I think they could have explained better.

First on the list: "overcontrol" led to BSD's fragmentation. Isn't the Linux kernel largely decided on by Linus?

Second on the list: "If Mac and Windows didn't suck, people would've used them". DiBona was flame baiting there. The real question is, if Mac and Windows are opensourced will Linux be as successful as it is today? More to the point, as of late I don't think Linux has yet dominated those pretty pie charts in terms of usage.

Hmmmnnn... Must be the weather.

MRT Quickies

MRT Quickies

Currently annoyed by:
- MRT waiting for people to pile up on the platform.
- Being duped replying to a message sent via Chikka. Cmon' how hard is it to slap a "From Chikka" string for all their outbound messages? They are capitalizing on the fact that most (all?) mobile phones use a certain number of digits to match incoming messages from your phone's address book. wonder how many users are duped everyday and the corresponding amount of transactions?


treonox
- on a northbound train

Writely.com re-opened for public consumtion

Oh yeah, the age of collaboration!

Google spreadsheets and writely (acquired by google) is again making the world flatter. This means anyone with internet access and a decent web browser can avail of a an online word processsing application (can load word docs) and spreadsheet app and at the same time allow for group editing/collaboration!

This is great for 3rd world countries like the Philippines, last mile access can benefit for not having the need to purchase costly and expensive word processing application. Imagine a teacher in Bicol editing a study/research together with another teacher in Mindanao or Visayas. Heck imagine NGO's on another side of the globe collaborating with research writers in the Philippines. The possibilities are endless.

Telecommuting craze is just around the bend. :D


The network is the computer.
- Sun Microsystems

Overview - - Mobile phone -Sony EricssonK610i?-?

Whilst paying my bill for Globe at the SM North Cyberzone we chanced upon this sweet bugger currently offered at temptingly for extension plans. We have long been planning to get an extension since its actually more practical. Just that the offered options were not too tempting.

We asked if they have one in stock and fortunately they have one, and assured we could the unit right outright if we sign up for the extension. I couldn't wipe the grin on my lovey's face. The phone was a beauty, and not as bulky-ugly as the other current crop of 3G phones. They don't have the red one in stock tho, but it seems the cover plate can be replaced in the future.

Comparing this to my old T610 back in the day, its way wicked. Built in support for RSS feeds!, working SSL enabled pop/imap client (Gmail works nicely), 2 megapixel camera (which beats the Treo 650 camera to a pulp), Flash lite support?. Will try the Yamigo/Yahoo (IMPS) interface later. Very, very light, has bluetooth and verly usable speaker phone function.

Was itching to try the video call since our apartment seems to be covered by 3G. "Seems", since we sometimes see the 3G icon, and sometimes we don't. Hope they lower data rates tho. Something like Smarts 10/30mins or lower will do :D

Barney!

Barney!
Originally uploaded by nocs.

It really does capture a kid's imagination. If Jolibee would only push it, I think he can be as popular worldwide as Barney.



Ah kids, gotta love em. Every drooling kiss washes away our fears and brings renewed hope for the unstoppable future.



Treonox

- Singing out of tune happy birthday songs. Happy Dad. Good times. :-D

Google Maps Flight Sim!

Shiny!

Was hovering above the streets of London and HK. You can also choose to navigate around the moon or mars with the little bugger.

Even the kids love it!

Whats next? The things you can do with open platforms! :D

Discovery of the week: Journler - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog

Been using Journler for the past few days and in a word "ROCKS!".

Way better than my previous method of puting it in a word document and organizing via directories. With this app, you have on unified repository of your notes which can embed URLS, PDF's, regular files, pictures etc. Integration iLife makes your digital life a bit more easier. Supports keywords/tagging and allows you to blog (supports blogger/wordpress) and email from within the app. You could also insert audio (great for meetings) and video if that pleases you.

My typical usage would be in writing down notes for research, and dragging a bunch of URL's there, link related files lurking in the hard drive. After which I could now draft the formal document on another word processor. The Journler fits this workflow perfectly and allows you one stop flexible repository of notes.

I seem to notice that the Mac community has a lot of high quality GTD-ish and digital life organizing apps. Most of them free! The high level of integration between apps is also quite noticeable. All in all helping a lot in the productivity department.

And before I forget, Journler is donationware!

Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek - iChat

And oh, I like the new iChat theatre feature too. No not the philandering background feature (hehe). Rather the one that allows you to show your presentation. That would be great for "distant teaching" (tm). Or doing remote presentations for that matter. You can also use it ala VNC (screen sharing), and remotely control another mac while perhaps guiding the other person on the other end of the conversation.

Another shiny tool in making the world flat!

Live from WWDC 2006: Steve Jobs keynote - Engadget

Thats it folks!

Keynote over.

Things I liked in the upcoming Leopard! (sneak peak)

- Time Machine: Automatic incremental backups for dummies.
- Spaces: Virtual workspaces at last! No need to envy X11/Xorg window managers.
- Widget toolkits: Drag and drop widget creation.

And yeah! Macpro! Drool on... Dream on...

ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

VMware announces Mac client!

Woot!!!

I hope it supports the PPC architecture.

Btw, WWDC in a few hours! Hasta La Vista? Could it be??? What is Steve up to this time? Your guess is as good as mine. :)


Chaaiirrrssss!!! I would like some pop corn too.