The Omen
Watched The Omen last night. The one with Julia Stiles. I’d say it’s better than The Da Vinci Code. One of those times I never had the urged to sleep inside the movie house.
On Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Like Migs, I am finally using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). I caved in to hype generated by the current release partly due to a timely crash of my laptop running WinXP and my work using LAMP.
I never had any second thought of putting linux on my laptop when reinstalling the OEM WinXP (France uses it). So two days ago, I installed Debian Sarge 3.1r2 in a separate partition. Problem with Debian is that it failed to detect the correct screen resolution of the notebook. I’m in no mood of looking for kernel rebuilding.
Good enough that I have an Ubuntu Breezy install cd around and for the second time installed linux on my laptop. The install process went well. And then had it upgraded to Ubuntu 6.06 yesterday.
So far I like it. It hung up on me just after logging in. I haven’t had time to shoot the problem yet. I would probably change it to Xubuntu after knowing it uses Xfce. I have xfce on my debian work machine.
Hongkong Kitchen – Iloilo
Waited 2 weeks to finally try the newest restaurant in Iloilo City. Hongkong Kitchen failed to satisfy me and France. Food is ok but the price-to-taste ratio is too high. Nothing spectacular there.
Seatbelts and Death by Car Accidents
Just how many deaths do you think are caused by car accidents in which the driver and passengers are not wearing seatbelts in Philippine city roads? No idea? Don’t worry. People in the Philippine Land Transportation Office probably doesn’t either. I mean, how in the world can you get killed by driving at 20 kph max speed? Unless you fell off the cliff or ravine, the damage you get won’t even be enough to set the airbags open.
Ok, it’s my fault. I was driving without my seatbelt on and the LTO guys did a good job of calling my attention to confiscate my license. I would be using the receipt they issued until monday.
Yes, I am risking my life. But for chrissake, I couldn’t speed up in city streets, not only that the traffic moves so slowly, the road conditions are worse. Still it’s my fault. Law says I broke it. I resolve to wear seatbelts everytime from now on. More than the huge fee I am paying each time I’m caught, good habits should be developed.
Seriously, just how many died while in driving in Philippine city streets? I am referring I have seen some in primetime TV report programs. Most of which from drag racing.
Internet-less Weekend
Will be spending this sunday and monday with the kids. This is the only time my internet connection is down that I won’t fret.
Loud Office Music
Office music blaring so loud I can’t think straight. I am discovering sounds I never heard before. Inpector mills… hmmm…
I Love New York
A client sent me and two other colleagues T-Shirts that says I Love New York. Thanks boss.
The Mango Tree Iloilo
France and I had dinner at this nice new restaurant to hangout in Iloilo City. The Mango Tree is located new Mandurriao Plaza going to the town of San Miguel. I don’t know if they got the name from The Mango Tree Restaurant in London.
Still a noob in badminton
Five or months later after taking up badminton, I am still a complete noob in court.
Time to Drop MS Office?
I just read this from Abe that google has a spreadsheet. Not that this is revolutionary or anything – online spreadsheets have been around for some time already – but when it’s google who has it, it’s worth taking note of.
Does this mean I will never have to buy a MS Office productivity suite? Everything I need is now online. Still there are other factors that tells me I got to have an installed app. Philippine’s internet/DSL connection is not reliable.
During this time that google is taking a big part of our daily online life, I just hope the alternatives will not go away. There’s should be others to challenge the big boys or else they’ll become inefficient.