I am thankful for these times that people also care about others because we don’t just talk about technology for work but how we could use technology to help ourselves amidst calamities. The past weekend was terrible in the Philippines but people from here and abroad all cared to share something with us to help my fellow Filipinos. I was one of the luckier ones that wasn’t badly affected by Typhoon Ketsana. Others were flooded and their homes were swept away by the water, and there are those who were able to leave their homes but everything …read more

The Shy Connector
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I met Sacha through blogging. Technically we knew each other from high school but we mainly connected when I started learning about Linux 5 years ago. She’s one of the most encouraging people I’ve met and she even helped me throughout the time that I was panicking when I got a kernel panic message. She is also an Emacs and Drupal geek and her blog’s really a great resource on those topics, as well as how to have a well-balanced life.
Anyhow, her slideshow talks about how to be the shy …read more

I was amazed with what I saw on my feed reader: an article about a travelling Linux geek who basically went around Europe, Australia and South East Asia while sending in articles and stuff to earn a living. It’s really amazing for me to read such an experience because I can’t imagine travelling a lot because of the expenses of moving from the islands of the Philippines to another country. Even within the country it could be costly.
Anyhow, Juliet Kemp sounds like an awesome geek for doing this. Taking the time to travel and just see the world. …read more

Recently, I wrote And yes, one could be OS agnostic. Turns out that there’s already a blog of the same name. OS Agnostic. The blogger is Karin Dalziel who is an LIS student and she has her musings on her field of expertise in . Aside from that, she her artworks too.
The great thing about reading Karin’s blog is that she talks about her experiences with OSes, Ubuntu in particular, as well as her passion for spreading more knowledge about the Creative Commons. There are times that she’s been having some OS woes and yet she …read more