tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599432009-05-16T06:36:11.314-07:00nonsense blah blah etc ... on technology, corporate work, unix, opensource, civil society, photography, mobility, life, love, kids, parenting and many more!noxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05423120153705431683noreply@blogger.comBlogger1020125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359943.post-47588691455317285972009-05-15T21:17:00.000-07:002009-05-16T06:36:11.335-07:00

On a quick note, N95 + Garmin Mobile XT loaded with Malaysia and Singapore maps really rocks! Even better than the bundled GPS on our Persona. All searches by default is based on your location. For example searching for a Shell station, you would see it searching within 5km, 10km, 20km... radius. That said it makes a two year old phone an extremely practical all in one mobile device.When will

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Saturday morning with a mini and maggi goreng. Surprisingly wifi is available as auto detected by the mini. For the first time am blogging in this indoor Nasi Kandar.Anyway, its been a while since we have the mini, my daughter uses it regularly at home for school homework and general surfing. It seems to hold up to the task. Was keen on trying it outside and see how long the battery holds up and

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WTF???What is the future of Java and Glassfish?Interesting times to be a Java aligned technologist...

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_MG_0631Originally uploaded by nocsHad a great time this Sunday. Took the lovey and kids to Pantai Morib for a much needed break. Beach was ok, but food was fresh and delicious! We had grilled fish, fried prawns and calamari cooked kampung style? I could still imagine the taste of the prawn somewhere there in my tastebuds. It was really good and am not even a prawn lover to begin with :).We also

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Our dogOriginally uploaded by nocsSurprised to know there is a free book for dieting... Named as The Hacker's Diet aimed primarily at geeks perhaps.Overweight and a bulging beer belly (ironically I rarely drink beer or alcohol for that matter), its those odd moments in time when you want to write something about it. In the futile hope to keep that motivation to get fit even for just a

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Red GuitarOriginally uploaded by nocsCause we were born upside down.Trying to find beauty amidst daily challenges life throws at you. Seeking refuge behind the sound of the shutter.

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Mic test...1, 2, tres...

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Yesterday night was rather a frightening experience. On an intersection, I signaled going to the right, an I thought the car behind was smart enough to see that as well. But no! the asshole rather decided to also make a right turn in the same two way lane together with me. Worse, he was the one so frackin' irritated and even tried to drive so close to my car while blasting his horns as if it

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31 years of walking thru the earth and enduring public transport, for the first time ever, I can now go to places on my own set of wheels. Driving really is both terrifying and an exhilarating experience! Just a while ago in the parking lot I forgot to look to the right and thankfully the car on the right was able to break in time. My brain is still uselessly wired with left hand driven instincts

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This thing is really shiny! Saw one for sale in the Cineleisure at 1.6k MYR (around $460).It looks just as good in person, the availability of a longer lasting battery will make this bugger the king of the netbooks. It can run OS X it seems, and runs open source operating systems like *BSD and Linux a breeze. Wonder how decent Java runs on this machines. It would make a really nice portable

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Just gave Intellij IDEA a spin, the last time I tried was around 5 years back I think, it was really slow back then.Past forward, I was blown away! I can say this is the Apple Mac equivalent of IDE's out there. The handling is just right, you feel this is an IDE made by real developers for real developers. Its really, really nice. Spring junkies will definitely love the tight integration with

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In the real world, architecture and software design always looses against business drivers and deadlines.But there is no harm in trying, with laptops in our hands and design patterns in our hearts.

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While looking for some free Pages templates I stumbled upon this site. I particularly liked the TextEdit Icon. It rocks and exactly the same sentiments I feel at the moment.It reads:Dear Kate,Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.The troublemakers. The round pegs in the squareholes. The ones who see things differently. They'renot fond of rules. And they have no respect for thestatus

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This is thing is awesome! Such a welcome relief for us long time cruisecontrol users. It was relatively easy to setup, after the initial gotcha's for the SVN and findbugs settings, everything was smoothly running, like butter over hot pandesal.Hooray! For high quality open source products like these.Hudson... we don't have a problem..

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By far the best explanation on the lazy web of what OSGi is. :)On my end am becoming increasingly curious about OSGi. Wonder how long till I succumb and scratch that itch and plunk down and do some happy code.There are a variety of usage scenarios I can think right out of the bat. Wether its a fat client or a beer-belly server, who would not love upgrading your JAR dependent lifestyle with SOA

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Its lightweight and good enough for most cases. The only drawback is on OS X the JDK 1.6 seems to have a bug so profiling is not enabled. Bummer!

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Leaving the settings at 40 / 70 makes the aluminum dramatically become more sperm friendly. Lets you sleep better if you are worried that heat might shorten the lifespan of you beloved mac hardware. And its freeeee!!!

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Am really beginning to like Maven over good ole' Ant. Dependency management is just one configuration away. Shiny! Other than that, switched all my hobby/happy code to SVN.

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Yesterday, after Tenby, kids in tow we went to our favorite hangout place "The Curve" in Kota Damansara. One of the reasons why we like this place is because of Borders bookstore which aside from offering a huge selection of books (and accepts book orders if its not in stock!), allows you to open any book you like and provides cushy reading corners without somebody giving you the

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A while ago we visited Tenby International School, it seems to be a nice learning environment. About 20 minutes away via the NKVE from our condo which probably means less traffic, but at the price of RM 1.40 toll fee. Hope we get a car before school starts in January.The fees are almost the same as MAZ International School, but this one really has nice facilities in comparison and as a result has

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Life as we know it, quickly goes by... Fortunately, am lucky to have two adorable kids and a loving wife (Oh, and a really stubborn pekingese dog). As life is short and it doesn't make sense to go on its journey alone. Birthdays for me means taking stock of all the good things you have so far and be really thankful to the Lord for all the blessings. Yeah, life ,with all its sham, drudgery and

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Oh yes, reality is these two words gets mixed up and has the tendency to end into the latter. People become avid fans of what-somewhat-works-already-in-production-thou-shall-not-touch syndrome.Been really grappling for the past 1 year how to convince people the values of unit testing and loosely coupled frameworks. How do you convince dinosaurs without hurting their feelings? How do you invite

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Obviously not updating the blog on a regular basis, life goes on on the other side of cyberspace.Currently hooked on reading again! Now halfway thru "The Anatomy of Peace", I loved the first book, and this one really drives the point home. On the other side, my daughter is still not in school, which is getting me worried shince she is turning seven next month, hope everything goes smoothly so she

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Not sure how true this still is back home. I feel extremely happy to be there back in the day when programming was in its early stages in the Philippines. When Linux was still diskette based affair, and FreeBSD was still in is 2.x version. Dual 64kb lines was enough inspiration to burn the midnight oil. C/C++ was there to expose us to the funky world of OOP.Nowadays, we eat Swing memory leaks for

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3 more posts and i'll hit the 1000th post landmark.Rice here has also increased in price. Dramatic increase, am hoping it doesn't trigger a price increase of other common commodities.We found a school for my eldest. Here is to hoping we get more than we paid for. Us parents would simply do everything and never skimp on a child's education.daddy nox- hope, faith, in the land of milk and curry...

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