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Time to Fly

As they say, sometimes it is necessary for us to get out of our comfort zone in order to grow. Sometimes, in order to grow professionally and personally, we have to go to a totally new environment and learn about new things. Everyone needs training. There is always room for growth and improvement. And I think [...]

Where Were You When?

I was browsing through some blogs we have syndicated at Philippines Today and I happened to read Jessica Zafra’s post about Ninoy Aquino’s 25th death anniversary being commemorated today, August 21. I was really surprised to realize that it has indeed been 25 years since then. Where was I twenty five years ago today? Well, I [...]

Supermarkets Going Green in Tsukuba

Been to the grocery stores lately? Then perhaps you have seen the poster above. The owl (the bird symbol of Tsukuba) is holding an eco-bag, and the announcement at the top says: ????????????????? Starting from September 1, the free distribution of grocery bags will be stopped. At the bottom part, it says: ??????????????Bring your own [...]

Ponyo

When I first heard of the latest animated movie feature from Studio Ghibli, I told myself that I shouldn’t miss it on the big screen. I’m a big fan of Miyazaki, of anything Ghibli-related. It all started, of course, when I watched Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi). It was unlike anything I’ve ever [...]

Morning Walks

Ever since we’ve moved into our new abode, we have grown fond of walking in the mornings (on weekends), as long as the weather permits it. And every time we go out for walks, the more I affirm to myself that moving to our current place is indeed a wise choice. I have two critical [...]

myGUIDE

Installing NinfG version 5

NinfG is an open source grid middleware which provides a programming framework for grid-based remote procedure calls (GridRPC). It is a reference implementation of the GridRPC API (application programming interface), allowing programmers to create applications that can call procedures/executables installed on remote computers. In particular, it provides client library APIs that can be used to [...]

Using SSH for Passwordless Remote Login

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol allowing secure data exchanges between two networked devices. It is designed to replace Telnet, which sends information over the network in plain text making it susceptible to interception or eavesdropping. SSH, on the other hand, provides secure communication by encrypting the data sent over the network. It [...]

Trying Shindig, an OpenSocial and Google Gadgets container

Shindig is an open source reference implementation of Google’s OpenSocial and gadgets specifications. With Shindig, you will be able to host Google gadgets and OpenSocial applications in your own web site relatively quickly as it already contains code that you can easily plug into your server infrastructure to start hosting these applications. Interested with OpenSocial, I [...]

Migrating phpWebsite 0.10.2 to PHP version 5

After changing my web hosting provider, I am faced with the task of migrating a couple of web sites to the new server. A couple of these web sites are phpWebsite-based. Unfortunately, the new server is using a version of PHP higher than 5, which is known to cause some problems with the version of [...]

My blog as my OpenID identity

To understand openID, you only need to consider the number of Internet accounts you currently maintain. Maybe you have one email account in Yahoo or Google, another account in Flickr for your photos, an account in YouTube for videos, another one in Friendster, Facebook, or MySpace for your social network, and many many more. For [...]