Tarballs of Ion! — zakame’s blog

Ok, so I’m supposed to write about some things in retrospect with 2005, like the many folks who did so already. Unfortunately, I’m out of time here (’tis around 30 minutes before midnight, yet my folks are nagging me to join them at my tita’s house, so I’ll just save the retrospecting for later.

Well, later…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

PS: Sorry for spamming Planet Debian as I just upgraded to WP 2.0, and my feed b0rked

Just upgraded my blog to the fresh WordPress 2.0 “Duke”. Rocking!

Still, it doesn’t seem to do the inline-frame post previewing correctly… hmmm…

Another year ends,
Another year draws near.
And despite the ups,
And despite the downs,
Always remember that $DEITY is there,
Always waiting for you,
Always beside you,
And has already prepared
A place for you in His
Abode.

Amen.

Merry Christmas!

Whee! After some 10 hours on the road, avoiding landslides, fighting torrents, and bearing with cramped spaces, I finally got home.

/me catches up…

I forgot to post yesterday that GtkLP 1.1.0 has been uploaded to Sid, courtesy of my good sponsor Andreas Metzler. And, in what seems to be a coincidence, Markus Vuori mailed me some time ago just after my upload to chi about GtkLP being integrated into ubuntu-desktop.

Hmmm… is gtklp the missing link? But then again, gtklp supports CUPS only, and is actually just a frontend for editing ~/.lpoptions…

I’m at Ayala Center in Makati, enjoying the Sunday life amidst the buzz of the mallrats. I’m also enjoying the free internet provided by Globeline’s kiosk here, as well as access to a (locked-in) HP laptop with wired LAN.

Anyhow, I’m not too comfy here, blogging without a chair to sit on, and dragging a backpack too, so let me do this quick. Yesterday I met up with the Ubuntu-PH people (namely, Jerome. Clair, Donnie, and Ealden) for our Christmas EB at Congo Grill in El Pueblo, Ortigas. I almost got lost trying to find the location, which I knew was somewhere near SM Megamall, and since I was coming all the way from UP Diliman via the MRT. Nevertheless, after some asking-around, I finally got to where I was supposed to be, and ate a hearty meal with chicken and garlic rice while listening to the channel, er este, people chatter (amidst the roaring Christmas party another gang was making.)

After the meal, we then moved to The Podium nearby and sipped some coffee at Starbucks, then talked some more about Ubuntu, Gnome and KDE (especially the recent and quite controversial thread on desktops,) and some other stuff mentioned in Donnie’s post. There was also some stuff to be brought up at the next team meeting (see TeamMeetingAgenda) that we touched on, in particular that bit about membership to Ubuntu-PH.

Well, it took us almost a midnight to wrap up; even then, along the road towards EDSA we were still talking about Ubuntu-PH, PLUG, and the AsiaBusinessTour, before we all finally parted ways. Indeed, EBs like these rock, especially when we’re all doing something great together as a team. Indeed, the next year seems to hold great promise for Ubuntu, Linux, and FOSS for the Philippines—and we’re at the forefront of it.

Now, I need to go, and eat some Whoppers…

Bad weather.

Bad stomach.

Lost cellphone.

All in one morning.

ARRRRRRRRGH!!!!!

A few days ago in IRC…

*		zakame would love to have wifi, laptop even, but no, haven't tried weroam yet :/
<iandexter>	who knows, zak? santa just might hear you. 
<zakame>		I am crafting my wishlist right now 
*		iandexter thinks zakame's been a good boy and santa will surely see that. 
<zakame>		I pray St. Nick will 

Now, this post pushed itself into my Inbox. Hmmm, I can’t even afford getting a USB stick like every good dev… and with the hardness of the times, I’m hard-pressed to even get a new desktop… =(

/me gets back to work on gtklp, ecb, and lighttpd, and posts debdiffs…