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Menacing Migraines Ahead

Scientist should start classifying migraines in scale based on the pain inflicted upon an individual. Perhaps they should count number of perceived neuron deaths. At least I think they should. I rate mine a 4 out of 5. But my headaches can not be as severe as the ones in Redmond. Since everyone (and their…

February 7, 2008
Calendars and TODOs Are Only Useful If You Use Them

You know those commercials for productivity suites/PDAs/etc. where the protagonist wants to go to an event… and then finds out it happened last week. Well that happened to me today. Just going through my “TODO” list, and wanting to check out when that expected event was gonna happen. And it already did. The moral of…

February 6, 2008
The Masses Don’t Exist

Some food for thought: If Linux/open source is so great why hasn’t it reached the mass market? It’s an interesting question, especially for someone like myself who wants the open source/software libre movement to succeed both socially and economically. This question should interest even people who don’t really care about software or programming. Because if…

January 31, 2008
Productization of Self

Wonder where I have been in the past few days? Still job hunting and figuring how best to market myself to prospective employers. Its not easy for a few reasons. First, is most people don’t learn about how to do this sort of thing until they hit unemployment line. I for one don’t claim to…

January 29, 2008
Security Alert: Storm “Loves You” to Infect Your Machine

Ok, so I don’t do this often, but I gotta an email this morning: I Would Dream From: ########@#####.### (e-mails hidden to protect the innocent) To: ########@#####.### Date: Today 03:59:41 For You….My Love http://###.###.###/ (IP address also hidden) Turns out that e-mail probably originated from a system compromised by the Storm botnet. If you do…

January 25, 2008
War§ow for the Win!

Refactoring code and sending out resumes can get boring after a while. And while working inside of KDE 4 with all its prettiness and ease-of-use helps one be more productive… sometimes you need to be unproductive to be productive. Trust me it makes sense. Its like a zen koan or Ancient Greek paradox. Thats where…

January 20, 2008
KDE & Linux: An Explanation for the Uninitiated

One of my friends after reading my last blog piece commented: “English please.” So here is the English summary translation of my last blog post: The short explanation would be: I occasionally review new Linux software. KDE is a window manager for Linux. And the new KDE4 rocks my world! Long explanation without too much…

January 19, 2008
KDE 4: My Desktop Just Got Cooler

Tuesday, I decided to make the plunge and try out KDE 4.0.0 One word: amazing. So ever is my quick and unscientific review of KDE 4.0.0 Artwork KDE 4 is a very sexy looking desktop. The panel is darker, the default wallpapers classier and artwork much more modern. The icon and widget theme Oxygen and…

January 18, 2008
Digging Out of Self-Made Holes

Right before the end of last year, I made a number of “blue sky” goals for 2008. Unfortunately I fell into a number of self-made holes from last year, that basically prevented me from moving forward. To make things worse, I realized no single “thing” would resolve or complete even part of one of those…

January 13, 2008
Review of 2007, the Promise(s) of 2008

The year 2007 has been quite a dynamic year for me. Instead of writing a long article about each thing… cause that might take me an year to write and edit, I will just present a list of lists of things that happened. Academics Completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.…

December 31, 2007