October 2007

Today my puppy started to shed her fur. Roughly a week before the Dry Season last year, my puppy started to shed her fur as well. Maybe that is the indication that the…

Just want to pass on a new Saigon Blogger link. Pho is written by Anna, a Vietnamese American residing in Bien Hoa outside of Ho Chi Minh City. She was present at last…

Another one for Mel (Antidote to Burnout). This house is being re-constructed on my alleyway. It is one of those corner houses. I remember what it looked like before and…

This has been one of the wettest rainy seasons during my three and a half years in Vietnam. It does not want to end. Mel predicted the end of the rainy season 19 days…

As with my last post, I found some other funny pictures from Central Asia. From May, 1997, until July, 1999, I was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan. Life in…

I just finished watching the film, "The Rebel (Dong Mau Anh Hung)". The Rebel is a nice Hong Kong-like action film taking place in 1922 Vietnam when the French still…

I was searching through my old backups I brought from the US yesterday. I was surprised that I scanned a picture of the greeting card Alecya, a cute intern I worked with…

Most expats in Saigon may not have heard about Vang Anh, but I learned last week that this character, played by Thuy Linh, a first year college student, is quite popular…

Hello Saigon Bloggers: If you are free Friday night, meet up between 7-7:30 PM at Sabrino's Pizza (name?) located behind Sun Wah Tower on Ton That Thiep Street. I will…

Darn, I had to spend another weekend at home working on my Laptop again. I really hit geek mode since I returned from the US. I am still not sure if I truly recovered…

Over a week ago, I showed the film, An Inconvenient Truth, to my students at SaigonTech. I had realized that very few of them knew anything, or seem to cared, about the…

(Source: KDE) One of my early complaints about the iPhone was that I could not access it with my Sabayon Linux laptop. I was afraid that I would need to install iTunes…

(Source: Thanh Nien News) Many of us who have lived in Saigon for the last couple of years have definitely noticed the huge increase in traffic lately. More and more…

The Ministry of Information and Communication currently is appraising open source software for IT projects in Vietnam. From the article: The council will then choose an…

Thanks to Tracy Reed for forwarding this story. 2008 could be the Year of Linux and Open Source Technology adoption in Vietnam. As the story points out, more and more…

I finally got my Thinkpad's Fingerprint Reader to work with ThinkFinger today using Sabayon Linux. Awesome!!!

Here are a couple of very interesting pictures I took with my iPhone last week here in Saigon. While I was teaching at SaigonTech, one of my students showed me a copy of…

The iPhone has been unlocked again. Yeah :-) Oh, wait a minute, I am selling my iPhone soon. Maybe I will wait to add the new firmware first :-) See Article here ->…

I have used Sabayon Linux for nearly three weeks now. Unfortunately, I am at the phase with Sabayon where little things are beginning to annoy me. I installed Sabayon…

Well, FPT's reputation for poor quality service seems to have returned. For many of us who live in the outlying districts of Saigon, getting connected to the Internet…