RSS Reader

I am now using old reader most of the time.  It is a fine replacement for google reader. 

I am still using bing as my default search engine,  it is fine for everyday search,  I sometimes switch to google when I can't seem to find the things I'm looking for.

Dodong Nemenzo for AKBAYAN

Desktop ko sa Kubuntu 12.10

Yung picture ng babies ko nag cycle sa lahat ng pictures nila na meron dito sa computer ko.

MS Office temptation

Yesterday, I was working on a google doc document and I was getting frustrated with inadequacy of building tables and I was briefly tempted to install WINE and Office 2003.

I decided against it because if I did install WINE and office, I might as well use windows. 

Using linux for about a month and it is still quite frustrating.

When Google lost its cool

This article captures how I feel about google

"But in a fickle information economy in which giants become dwarves overnight, balancing one’s reputation for cool with one’s bottom line is trickier than ever. A growing accumulation of incidents that rub users the wrong way creates a climate of dissatisfaction that amplifies our reactions to new abuses. A year ago, maybe we laughed off the “ogooglebar” kerfuffle, ignored Whittaker’s post, and dreamed of wearing Google glasses. Now we poke mean fun at overzealous lawyers, see bean-counting corporate realignment behind every new product launch, and savage Google Glass wearers as irredeemable dorks. Perhaps most troublingly, the benefit of the doubt is gone.We’re way beyond mocking “don’t be evil.” Now our default position toward Google increasingly resembles how we treated Microsoft in the ’90s. Google is indispensable, certainly, but not necessarily to be trusted."

My first e-books

Today I fount out that Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg died 2 years ago.  As a book reader,  I have always been grateful that Project Gutenberg exists and that if I ever ran out of reading materials, I can always get some there. 

I have not used them a lot, but just knowing that it exists comforts me.  RIP Mr. Michael Hart, I thank you for all your contribution to humankind.

Why I like google more than bing

though I still use bing for a majority of my searches because of Google closing Google reader down.  I go back to Google for searches like this, it's just easier than opening up the calculator.

Google search fro 200 dollars converted to Philippine peso

bing version

Bogus Nexus 7 sale

Nasa SM misis ko, napadaan sila sa isang computer store doon, naka sale daw yung Nexus 7 nila, 13,999 na lang.  Nung tingnan ko sa net 13,999 ang regular price ng Nexus 7 dito sa Pilipinas, sa 41 pesos to 1 dollar, mga 341 US dollars o 100 dollars halos ang diprensiya sa US price.

Hindi ko alam kung anong tindahan siya napadaan, di ko tinanong, pero mag-ingat na lang mga tao.  Hindi sale ang 13,999 na Nexus 7, ito ang regular price at kumpara sa presyo nito sa Amerika, malaki ang kamahalan ng benta dito sa Pinas.

Reader replacement

I'm trying out feedly to be my reader replacement.  Seems ok.

Network printing

After several hours, I was able to print with my Kubuntu 12.10 installation to a shared printer from an XP machine.  I couldn't browse for the printer so I tried entering the address manually, but it didn't work also.  I noticed that I also could not, browse shared windows folder so I thought that was part of the problem.  I had to install winbind and edit nsswitch.conf as directed from this page

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dolphin/+bug/975028

which allowed me to browse shared folders and also browse for the shared printer.

It's been about a month since I started using Kubuntu for work, it has been frustrating especially during the first couple of weeks, but I'm getting used to it.