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Here is a funny news clip going around the tech world, "Cylon Baseships Run Windows XP?". I checked my version of Battlestar Galactica that I downloaded through…

Yep, you read right. This was published on the Thanh Nien News website. A UFO was reported to have crashed on Phu Quoc Island last Tuesday. No signs of the pilot or…

Yes, I touched that milestone today. Four years in Vietnam. I cannot believe I have been in Vietnam that long. Originally I intended only to stay just 2 years and then…

Last month I posted an article on my frustration with Gentoo. After I posted the article, I realized that the Compiz Fusion install was actually the culprit in breaking…

Quan Nem Restaurant Another one of my favorite restaurants that offers a variety of spring rolls, nem ran. I really like spring roll dishes in Vietnam. Yeah, as usual I…

I have been printing IT ebooks like crazy the last couple of months. Today I had nearly 800 pages printed between two ebooks. It took the copy place, not sure how else…

Today is the first day my Chinese-German, Korean and Vietnamese high school students started to use the Python Programming Language. I wanted to give them a two week…

For all you Mac Addicts in Saigon, worry no more, there are at least three Apple resellers in Saigon. My favorite, Future World, is located at 240 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai…

As with Best Saigon Restaurants, I will try to blog my favorite coffee shops in Saigon. I visit many of them in the city am have, in the past, posted some of them. I…

I woke up early today and ended up meeting two friends. It was a nice cool rainy season morning with just a tad of humidity in the air. Here are some photos from the…

I decided to start a category of restaurants I really like in Saigon. My Vietnamese friends take me to many restaurants in the city that are never published in the…

Phu My Hung in South Saigon is definitely a nice peaceful area with a lot of natural beauty. Here are some nice shots of a riverside on the outskirts of Phu My Hung.

Nearly a month since I started using Litter Kwitter to get my cats to do their thing on the toilet. It is going pretty well actually. My cats are up to the green tray…

An American friend took me to Dream Cones last weekend. He told me the ice cream was very good and he was right. Drop by if you are interested in some good locally made…

I forgot how I found Oliver Willis's blog. Most likely I was searching for Barak Obama and I came up on Oliver's "Like Kryptonite to Stupid" Blog. He is clearly an…

(Source BBC World News) This should come as a surprise for many of the Expats especially for those who regularly visit the Pham Ngu Lao area for their purchases of…

I successfully installed Fedora Core 9 on my Thinkpad T60. Everything seems to be working out of the box. I just need to the volume buttons to work. The Gnome 2.22…

I woke up this morning and found that Fedora Core 9 finished downloading through ktorrent. The bandwidth was quite high last night so the remaining 2 gigs downloaded in…

Yep, I am still at it. My two cats are, umm, eagerly using the Litter Kwitter most of the time but not all. They urinate 100 percent of the time but litter in it about…

Here's another shocker for many of you. Did you know I used to Olympic Weightlift? I did it as a hobby for about 4 years but I stopped when I left for the Peace Corps in…