AMH Race to 10
AMH Philippines will be celebrating its 10th year anniversary next year and we’re launching it with a fun run dubbed “Race to 10″. Race to 10 will be held either on November 22 (Saturday) or 23 (Sunday) at the University of the Philippines Academic Oval. Registration is free.
Fedora-Philippines Mailing List
The Filipino mailing list is now operational. Many thanks to Mike and Huzaifas for making this possible. Nothing there yet, but I’m excited to see a community grow from this. Giddy!
Wishful Listing
This early before Christmas, I wish can be able to afford either of these at the end of the year:
- Lenovo Thinkpad T61 - Php 54,599
- A clone PC with specs like the one below - Php28,440
- Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.5GHz
- Asus P5K-SE
- 2GB Kingston DDR2 800
- 80GB Seagate SATA
- Lite-on DVDRW SATA
- 19″ Samsung 920NW
Now back to work.
A Sideway View of Allen the Poet
My young cousin Allen was supposed to recite a poem during a school program but he got some cold feet. Here he is giving us a peek into what could have been 
[updated] Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)
Update (Oct. 2, 2008): The pictures are now available! Here are some samples.
Original post (Sept. 25, 2008) : Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)
Total Attendees: 480
One of Two Visual Rooms SFD08 Utilized
Because the AV Rooms are full
Speaking Before Eager Students
intern, Junix, Jumbz, Sir Engels, Ma'am Magie and Herson
before i go to bed
Its been quite depressing to find myself without any substantial output for the assignments I currently have.
Cases in point:
- Quality Manual update- another project has been getting much of my time these days while the usual trivial office tasks have found my desk so conveniently. I have a meeting tomorrow with my supervisor and I have nothing to report. Sheesh.
- Our Office Server Crashed - and I really don’t know why. The system logs points to smbd and cupsd refusing connections but that’s all. It seems like samba just refused to write on the filesystem even though files are still open - and that caused some files to be corrupted - erasing a good half-day’s worth of honest work.
- Holiday work - it’s non-working holiday in the Philippines in celebration of the Feast of Ramadan and I’m at the office the whole day and more. No choice there, work exigencies you know.
Some items I’m considering spending more time on:
- Bug Zappers - I’m interested on how things work for Fedora and I figured that the best way to do that is to know how things break
I had just joined the mailing list and I might say, it’s quite active - more active than the ambassadors’ list. - Django - I tried following this book and it’s quite promising. Too bad, I had so little ME time nowadays that I had to stop for the meantime.
- F10 Release Party - I need to call on the brods ASAP to discuss the details for the UP venue. Ditto with Sir Engels and Ma’am Magie.
- Exercise - I’m getting too far ahead in the weighing scales that I just have to cut back on the munching and more on the sweating.
Now, I can sleep.
Changing the World an Idea at a Time
Just bumped into this Google page soliciting ideas on how to “change the world by helping as many people as possible”. Project 10^100 (that’s the name of the project) will select five (5) finalists and will bankroll their implementations with a $10M fund.
Now I’m trying to squeeze my brain for some really pretty cool ideas but all I’m getting is a pretty vague one involving GIS/Geohazard mapping. Anyway, the deadline is still on October 10 so there’s still time to refine things.
