old stuff from March, 2008

tour of fireflies 2008

Saturday, 15 March 2008 10:50 am by noel
posted in cycling

the 10th tour of fireflies will be on 20 april 2008, sunday. the organizers have not announced route yet but i suspect i would be 40 to 50km winding around metro manila.
last year we held up traffic like crazy and it took us half the day. but it was super fun. i met bimbo and [...]

pagasa’s linux cluster

Friday, 14 March 2008 8:37 pm by noel
posted in tech

once in every while i receive refreshing news that gives me the impression that some people in government do think.
debian linux helping to predict philippine weather at a fraction of the cost. i that’s something worth showing off.

gpgp key update

Tuesday, 11 March 2008 9:30 am by noel
posted in mine, tech

i have recreated and updated my gpg public key. you can download it from here.

march.29 earth hour

Friday, 7 March 2008 11:19 pm by noel
posted in mine

i am asking everyone for a little help.
i am asking you to turn off your lights on march 29, 2008 from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm — earth hour.
that’s it. just turn your lights off for 60 minutes and see the difference you can make.
for more details on the event please visit the earth hour [...]

acid 3

Thursday, 6 March 2008 1:29 pm by noel
posted in tech

web standards project press release:
The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards. Collectively known as DOM Scripting, it is these technologies that enable advanced page interactivity and power many advanced web applications such as [...]

azureus on ubuntu

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:40 am by noel
posted in tech

problem: when starting up azureus, it pauses for a few seconds and then disappears
cause: i don’t know the real cause but i have observed that it happens when azureus doesn’t make a clean exit. this happens sometimes when i double-click on a torrent and az suddenly disappears and the next time i start up the [...]

signs of aging

Sunday, 2 March 2008 8:02 pm by noel
posted in cycling

i was in san pablo the weekend of the 22nd to the 25th of february. i brought kikay along so that i can get some riding done and maybe practice on my climbing skills.
i set out on an unusually warm saturday morning as it has been very cool everyday for the past week or so. [...]

why do this

Saturday, 1 March 2008 1:07 pm by noel
posted in cycling

“why do you do this to yourself?”
she spoke in a voice of genuine concern and looked at me a bit worriedly. but she didn’t say anything else. i haven’t seen her for years.
i was in a middle of what was to be a long bike ride. i ran out of water along the way and [...]