A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

I have to admit it: my blog-fu of late has turned rusty. Hell, I just reread my posts from Nov. 15 and some of those sentences didn't make sense. It's not that I haven't been surfing the Net or that I'm involved in something worthwhile -- it's hard to find stuff that hasn't been linked seventy times seven by the other blogs. Not enough bloggers out there doing ...

When we got rid of the old desktop and after hopefully some thorough cleaning of the hard-drive, we decided to try some free open-source software on the laptop. Because it works as well as the branded stuff. And because I'm cheap. I'm not claiming to be an expert. There are just some stuff I've tried on my own and worked to my satisfaction. I've tried these on Windows ...

Blog and surfing time have been reduced because we're gearing up to pull up the stakes and move again. Just 15 more days before the big move and details need to be ironed out. It's not like we can call Lipat-Bahay and make arrangements and be done with it. I'm not much of a 'mover'. The wife's more of the nomad. For every one of my residential transfers, ...

Chinese astronauts are not called sinonauts, as I mused before when they sent their first man into space. Be grateful for that because sinonauts sounds like someone with a bad cold trying to get rid of snot. Like astronauts for the Americans and cosmonauts for the Russians, the Chinese have their own tag for their spacemen: yuhangyuans or taikonauts. Yuhangyuan is Chinese for "space navigator " a term used ...

Remember that bit by comedian Rex Navarette playing with the Sto. Niño when he was a kid while the other kids had their Muhammad Ali and GI Joe dolls? Guess what...

I just had to mention this: the Bosnian City of Mostar has decided to erect a statue of actor and martial arts icon, Bruce Lee as a "symbol of unity" and "representing justice." Whatever works for peace right? Reminds of the same feeling I had when I first heard about the statue of Jose Rizal in Germany. (So shall we expect that after the Great Dentists and Orthodontists War ...

Missed a couple of things while I was away: * Some old bloggers are back: say hi to Antifaust and This Is Ina. Nice to see you guys online again. * Do you nano? Apple introduces iPod Nano. There's a PGMA joke somewhere. They've also launched the iTunes for Motorola's ROKR, a cellphone than can play songs bought from iTunes. P2P via phones is not long I tells ...