Lone Jam
7+ months in Canada, no bass guitar, no gigs, no band, no jammings… no happiness. I had apprehensions about getting a bass guitar. After all, I’m doomed to play by my lonesome. To see if it will spark some craving, I listened to Jaco Pastorius’ studio album and Tal Wilkenfeld’s Transformation. I love Tal’s album! [...]
RMS in Calgary
I attended Richard Stallman’s talk on “Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks” at the University of Calgary last Tuesday, February 3. Coming over from a job interview down south of the city I was a bit late so I had to stand at the back of the packed lecture hall. I found [...]
WordPress Upgraded
Its about time I upgraded my blog. I setup Ron’s blog at http://www.intelron.com and of course with the recent WordPress version 2.7. My WordPress version was 2.0.3 and there is no way to upgrade from that to 2.7… so I had to manually insert data into the new table formats from the existing data. Not [...]
How to Disable known_hosts in ssh
I’ve been working on building custom live linux systems for a while now. The problem is, everytime I reboot the live linux machine and I ssh/scp to it, I get this message: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping [...]
I Miss the Old Days
I just completed updating my very outdated resume and I just realized I missed a lot of things I did before. Specifically, I miss the feeling of creating apps that other people actually use. I just checked up on my old projects and find that they are still alive! With AJWCC: http://ruby.inquirer.net/adv/mobilenews I put a [...]
Internet at Last
So much for this domain and webhosting, which I’m paying for, if I’m not going to use it! Now that I have internet at the place where I’m staying, no prying eyes or annoying officemates can distracting me from indulging in this guilty pleasure. Some years ago (2003 to be exact), I got caught up [...]
Year End Report
2007 is almost over! Only 12 posts (not including this one) for this year. In response to Nuts’ year in gear: Sold the Yamaha RBX-350. I think I saw that RBX in ebay.ph stripped off of the sticker veneer. Got a Geddy Lee jazz from Onie dela Cruz. Got an M-80 bass DI. Sold the [...]
Google Zurich
Last October 24, I was flown out to Zurich, Switzerland for on-site interviews with Google. They first emailed me last May asking if I was interested in any of their Software Engineering positions. Almost immediately, I dismissed it as spam. What would Google want with me anyway? What is the possibility that of the multitude [...]
Lowest Meralco Bill Ever
My electricity bill for the period of Aug 25 – Sept 25 is only P 575! From 2,500, thats an 80% reduction. Wow! At first I though that Meralco gave me a rebate for the infuriating price hike they had last June. But no, my electricity usage was just really really low. I didn’t use [...]
Incompetent in Tech Support
This week I ended up doing mostly one thing: providing technical support for 2 projects which I was working on. I went horribly. I can either blame myself for being inept in expressing technical instructions to someone with limited technical capability, or I can blame that person for being such. Personally, I consider the first [...]