old stuff from January, 2008

four months on linux

Wednesday, 16 January 2008 6:17 pm by noel
posted in tech

it has been four months since i’ve started using ubuntu linux almost exclusively and a little over two since i last opened my windows machine.
i have been able do and finish the same work that i did with the windows machine. i can open microsoft’s document formats, edit html and image files, play my music [...]

city riding 0115

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 6:39 pm by noel
posted in cycling

i was able to ride again just today. i’ve been busy with a bit of work and generally trying hard to get into the groove of things again.
city riding is not really easy especially in the pinas. there are so many jeeps, buses, pedicabs and wayward pedestrians. so today, i took to the [...]

project fixie: the list revisited

Sunday, 13 January 2008 10:56 pm by noel
posted in cycling

its been a while since my last post about my fixie/ss project and since its a new year, i think its time i revisited it. there have been some improvements but, as expected, things are a little slow due to either lack of funds or the absence of fixed gear parts.
the begging list:

road frame (*1)
fixedgear [...]

iphone on hand

Sunday, 13 January 2008 11:43 am by noel
posted in people, tech

i got hold of an iphone the other day. sooo nice.
its one of those gadgets that shows it’s different thinking from a different direction. its like a palm pilot with a cell phone feature added but with lots of advanced hardware and software bling.
melvin, a long-time friend of ours flew in for the holidays and [...]

spam. live with it.

Saturday, 12 January 2008 8:22 am by noel
posted in tech

there is e-mail spam and, if you have a blog, there’s comment spam.
its always going to be there. its a fact of internet life. you live with it.
if you can’t then i can think of a thumbful of ways to avoid it:

do not get an e-mail address. if you do get one, do not use [...]

splogs

Thursday, 10 January 2008 3:17 pm by noel
posted in tech

splogs is defined as spam-saturated blogs or blogs full of comment spam.
get askimet or defensio people.

back to work, slave!

Monday, 7 January 2008 10:56 pm by noel
posted in nothing

its the first day of work. well, at least for me it feels like it is. e-mail starts pouring in (less the spam), the cell bleeps every now and then informing me of incoming text messages, the cell and landline rings more often and i’m spending more time in front of the computer doing web [...]

first ride for 2008

Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:23 pm by noel
posted in cycling

first ride of the year. its a 20km (or thereabouts) loop in san pablo city. the pictures were actually taken 31 december 2007 but i took cherry out on the same loop on 02 january 2008 and i didn’t have time to take pictures then so…
i don’t know the total distance covered because i don’t [...]