I’ve been playing with Linux for several years, but over the last year or so, its really become a viable alternative to Windows. I had a old Thinkpad R50e with Ubuntu on it, and it worked flawlessly, so this year it was clearly time to switch my main work machine from Windows XP to Linux. Read the rest of this entry »
I here the phrase above so often in the Philippines I can barely believe it. Replace the word ‘Internet’ with almost anything you use in daily life, and there, in a nutshell, is life in Manila.
I should have started this blog a long time ago when I first moved here. At that point I was still incredulous and I would doubtlessly have filled many pages with examples of inefficiency and brokenness in this country. I may still fill in some of the more memorable examples at a later stage, but to kick this blog off, my main beef at the moment is the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »