Archive for May, 2007

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Identity

Posted by Bambit
May 31, 2007

I first started blogging under the guise of SevenOfNine, influenced by the caterpillar late in 2004. Back then I wasn’t so sure if it was “safe” to blog under one’s true identity. But then I realized that if one were to put forward one’s own opinions, the opinions may hold more water if they were [...]

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Some of the best things in life are still free

Posted by Bambit
May 22, 2007

A little over a month ago I had put in a CD request at Ubuntu.com. I was having problems downloading the 7.04 iso file. I was also having problems burning the iso I had downloaded, as I had mistakenly bought a bunch of blank cd’s that had only 750mb file capacity. The ISO needed 800mb [...]

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Blast from the Past

Posted by Bambit
May 16, 2007

from left: Noel Comia, Armando Paguio, Jean Canlas-Bernardino, Victoria Kapauan-Gaerlan
Last I saw any of them was in 1975. Well, except Jean who I visited late in 2003 on one of her balikbayan trips. Some time in 2002 we had another small gathering with Danilo Fernando, Christopher Inductivo, and Emerlinda Villapando, but I can’t remember where [...]

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When Mother’s Day is also your “Mom’s” birthday

Posted by Bambit
May 13, 2007

I spent my earliest years with my father’s big sister. Her name is Tita, which is short for Teresita. She is my Auntie Tita. She had a house in Quezon City, but it’s not there anymore, sold many years ago to a Chinese businessman who wanted the land but not the house. The house was [...]

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OC’ing on Lazaria & Ubuntu

Posted by Bambit
May 11, 2007

All I wanted at first was to find a way to get around the ghost slash key on the built-in keyboard to stop depressing itself at the most inopportune moments—like when i’m entering a password—or hard-coding html. When I realized there was no way I could stop it short of removing it, that’s what I [...]

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Wow Now Old Cow

Posted by Bambit
May 4, 2007

This is what my desktop looks like now … compared to the screenshot on the previous post. This is no thanks to Beryl which is adamant on wrapping this machine in a white shroud, but with utmost gratitude to Max Limpag, Leon Kilat to all Bisayabloggers, and to this wonderful software called Automatix.
On the [...]