Eats N Gadgets

Maurizio‘s is a wonderful Italian restaurant along H.V. dela Costa.  It’s near the Saudi Embassy and Planters Development Bank. I’d passed this restaurant over and again coming from Valero on my way home to San Antonio, and often wondered what the restaurant was.  It’s raised slightly from street level, with open air dining fronting the [...]

I love Zuni! It’s at the quiet side of Greenbelt, with gardens on one side.  The waiters are friendly friendly friendly … and incredibly attentive.  The kitchen is consistent and puts out wonderful dishes. After work, I sometimes go there with family or friends to have a glass of wine and some pica-pica before dinner. [...]

My 19 year old sister came back from the States last month.  She’d been away for close to two years.  Of course, many things had changed about her .. .she grew up … more mature, more self assured, and she’d started enjoying social drinking.  As these teenagers in the States go, beer was the drink [...]

With the surge of open source software, and the general acceptance and proliferation of this mode of software development, many have come to accept certain truths … free open source software can be great, and even challenge commercial applications, given enough time and enthusiasm of its community of developers and users.  And, as these applications [...]

After almost 2 weeks of tweaking and research and forum posting, I finally gave in.  I realized that I had wasted so much valuable time in trying to fix everything from networking to https logins on firefox … it just seemed like the problems were one after another … and like many things in life, [...]

I enjoyed Ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook, so I decided to see the full desktop version on my Compaq Presario V2000 laptop.  If you’ve been following my posts about my gadgets and tech, the Compaq v2000 is my primary work machine.  It does everything for me.  So, when I installed Ubuntu 9.10 I was distraught [...]

I found Ad Buttons while searching for an ad manager plugin for my WordPress blog.  Basically, I wanted something that was simple to use, that contained AdSense functionality or integration, allowed me to place my own ads and would accommodate various affiliate marketing tie-ups.  I’d tried a few others … installing … uninstalling. Ad Buttons [...]

Here’s a free plug for the Pacquiao-Cotto fight promo of Lolo Dad’s Brasserie at 6750 over in Makati (Ayala Malls).  Received this by text message. For P500/head, you get a free drink and watch the fight live on November 15th.  The fight starts at 10AM, so you might as well stay for Sunday brunch/lunch. Since [...]

My last post was all about my installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. Well, guess what? just the other day, Ubuntu released it’s latest version. It was on beta, but I suppose, now, it’s an official release. Upgrading was so simple. [Follow this only if you have 9.04 already installed.  If not, check the site for [...]