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 [...]
New Lappy!
After four (4) dreary months of going home to a dwelling devoid of a computer, I finally purchased a laptop. Its an Acer Aspire 4520-301G12. At Php 39,900 with 0% 12 months installment, free 2gb flash drive and HP photo printer, I think I got a really good deal! Bought it from Silicon Valley at [...]
Taylor’s Law of Programming Probability
I was trying to read up on permutations, probability and combinatronics when I came upon this link – Taylor’s Law of Programming Probability. The theoretical possibility of a catastrophic occurrence in your program can be ignored if it’s less likely than the entire installation being wiped out by meteor strike. The important number here seems [...]
Bad kernel 2.6.22 and autofs
The new kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 in Fedora 7 repo has an auto mount bug. Also reported back in 2.6.22.1-27.fc7, USB flash drives won’t automatically mount. Reverted back to 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 and all is well. Also, update autofs package. Earlier version that came with the Fedora DVD shows automount hogging up CPU! On top command, it shows up [...]
5 Weeks of Condo Living
The past 5 weeks seemed an eternity. Days seem to go by longer, time seems to go by too slow. So many things have happened! I should be excited by all of this, as I was before this whole thing blew up in my face. But now its all been drummed down, reality has crept [...]
No More Vacation
3 weeks ago, I started on another adventure. I ended 1 year and 2 months of vacation and went back to work for my old master. Working in Ateneo was like a wonderful vacation, except that I was getting paid haha. With wide open spaces, fields, trees, flexible working hours, and snack food in the [...]
Camphone
To be honest with you, I don’t really need a camera phone. I just want a small enough phone for sending and receiving sms, occasional voice calls, calculator, alarm clock, and of course has an intuitive user interface that won’t annoy me. For me, camphones don’t output photos at good enough quality for anything but [...]