Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

No More Time Waste

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Lately I've been spending way too much time on tech news sites like reddit. Whenever I had some free time and thought about doing something productive like reading a book, I would end up gravitating toward one of these time suckers instead. Hours would pass. From time to time I'd ...

Recommended Todo web app: Vitalist

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I've been looking for a good application to manage todo lists -- or Getting Things Done (GTD) as it's called these days. I have been using Remember The Milk but found it annoying. Yesterday I discovered Vitalist and, well, I was blown away. It's as though they had found a ...

Last Exam of the Semester

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Took my last test of the semester today, in Topology. It came after four days of intensive studying. Sometime during the second day I realized that I had underestimated the breadth of the material, and that I needed more time. So I went into a blitz that involved little sleep ...

An eBay Dispute

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

A month ago, I bought a pair of headphones on eBay from this seller. I payed 50 GBP for shipping. This is a very high shipping cost for such a small item. It should guarantee delivery within a week. A month has passed, and the item has yet to arrive. I ...

Ubuntu Installation Update

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I finished installing Ubuntu on my ThinkPad, and I've been working with it for a couple of weeks now. Here are my thoughts so far.

Great music I’m listening to

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Highly recommended alternative bands: Calexico Voxtrot PepLab The Decemberists

Trying out virtualization on my new ThinkPad

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Got my new T42p a couple of days ago. After playing around with it for a while (1600x1200 resolution rocks!), now comes the fun part: Installing Linux. After checking up on what's hot in the market I decided on Ubuntu. So now the question is what configuration to use: dual ...

My New HiFi

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Just got my new iPod HiFi (pictures). I'm no audiophile, but I find the sound to be incredibly good, especially for an all-in-one unit. This is my second ever Apple purchase (the first was my Nano), and I'm starting to grow very fond of these guys..

Friday Night Hacking

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

(full story now posted... sorry about the partial post earlier) Last Friday I was over at my girlfriend's parents' house for dinner. My girlfriend's sister had been nagging me for a while to install something on her laptop, and this time I finally remembered to bring the installation disc. Now, my ...