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Someone once Googled – “When is the best time of the day to visit Shilin Market?” – only to realize later on that it is a `night market`. That was me. When I was doing my research on the popular local attractions of Taipei, Taiwan. I have always heard my former work colleagues in Singapore…
It is already the middle of March 2020. Almost a quarter of the year has already gone by. Not too long ago we were just celebrating the new year. Like it was only a few days ago. How fast time flies. Really. No matter how many times I say that, it still leaves me with…
Adventures in Taipei, Taiwan – This was way back in October of 2019. It was already late in the afternoon. Perhaps around 5:30PM-ish as I recall. We were already running a bit late from our supposed scheduled trip to the Taiwan National Palace Museum on that day. Yes, just a bit. That’s Filipino standard for…
… on the first day of our trip, right after getting off the Airport MRT. … and then I found it again. 15 mins later. Not on my seat on the train where I thought I dropped it. Not on the floor of the platform where it might have slipped off my left jacket pocket….
So I wrote a review about this place on Google Maps that people would know what I thought about it, my experiences, and how I truly felt. It was a mixed feeling overall. I did not feel happy or sad about that place in the end. Disappointing is more like it. I mean, in the…
“Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and bottom of the world’s economic pyramid—the next 5 billion people.” source: http://rivet.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/greg-goes-to-china/ WOW! all i can say is `wow` on this mission statement. i mean come on.. . who wouldn’t get wow-ed at it?! it’s pretty impressive ain’t…
last week, the Windows XP on my laptop just won’t boot properly anymore. the bootsplash screen loads for a few seconds, then i get dumped back to BIOS. selecting safe mode, last known good configuration, or any other mode didn’t work. i repeatedly did each of the options available to no avail. it was futile….
KDE 4 is the forthcoming series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. The first version (4.0) of this series is scheduled for release on 11 January 2008.[1] The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It will contain a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a…
weee.. . my blog zeroing in almost always lands on the first page of Google & Yahoo!, The search giants. just type the keyword “zeroing in” and it should be there. how wonderful! it should depend on the data center in Google’s case. but i’ve also tried using IPs from the US & Canada and…
i just heard of this new Linux distro that supposedly sold out @ Walmart.com. it’s name.. . gOS. sounds like a Mac eh? and from the screenshot, it looks like one too! but wait, all over the desktop you can already distinguish familiar icons. going over to the gOS website, you can find more subtle…
NWN2. short for NeverWinter Nights 2. this is the sequel to the hit role-playing computer game NeverWinter Nights. released last 2006. this game is based on the dungeons & dragons 3.5 edition rules. i won’t say much about this game. except that it’s one of the few games that i don’t wanna miss playing. supposedly…
paris hilton is one sexy and pretty chick. i must admit that. in her reality TV shows, and even in her famous homemade video, she always looked skinny. but in this picture of the hotel heiress, she actually looks fat! man, look at those hips and upper legs. but i can easily remember those legs…
aha! this was what i exclaimed when Open Arena first ran on my Kubuntu Feisty 7.04. Quake 3 was one of the first commercial Windows games that i successfully ran on my Suse Linux through cedega. i still play it from time to time now. except that i can’t seem to find a free cedega…
this game, Nexuiz, adds to the handful of games i play on Linux. i just stumbled upon it by accident last night, after i also discovered yet another kewl game on Linux – Open Arena. Nexuiz is a fast paced, 3D, first-person shooter game like Quake. it has very good graphics and effects. you can…
here’s an interesting chat i recently had with this M$ marketing chick. i was asking her what Vista i should buy.. . then the chat turned from one thing to another. basically she told me that Windows XP will be supported for another 10 years or so. maybe give or take a few. woohooo! i…
it is great to see that one of the best Linux CD/DVD burning tool has finally gone to version 1.0. (in software development releasing an application under version 1.0 is a milestone.) it is undeniably one of my fave Linux apps. something i have to have on my KDE desktop, like amaroK. thanks to k3b,…
this letter wast sent to me by email from my father’s sister who has been residing in the US for over 30 years. i rarely get an email from her. and when i do, it is usually a forwarded message about some disgruntled guy ranting Philippines this or Philippines that. most of the time i…
Here’s a preview of the updated Gnome Main Menu. Isn’t it nicknamed the slab? What is it with SuSE/Novell and main menus? It seems like they have an obsession for it. However, I personally like what developments they have made with the main menus for both Gnome and KDE (kickoff). The main menu is probably…