July 2008

Here is a picture of my new Yamaha Nouvo RC in front of my house. Tomorrow I will get my registration number :-) 2008 Yamaha Nouvo RC in front of my house

My alleyway in the Phu Nhuan District has some of the best small cafes in town. If I am too lazy to cook, which has been quite frequent these days, I will drop by the…

I just filled my motorbike up for the second time today. I am quite impressed on it's gas mileage compared to my old Yamaha Nouvo. As of now, my motorbike gets about…

I fell in love with Uzbek music when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan. My Peace Corps site, Karatau, was only a couple hours from the border with Uzbekistan…

Tomorrow I will introduce my Vietnamese computer science students to Twitter. One of the nice things about being a computer teacher is that you can introduce new…

Finally I found a new theme that works with over two years worth of blog postings. It was not easier than I thought. Originally I wanted to use Preya's theme…

I will spend the day working on a new theme for SaigonNezumi.com. Expect many changes throughout the day. Sorry for any inconvenience but this is a much needed revamp of…

I started using Twitter a couple days ago though I have had an account for awhile now. Here is my Twitter account: http://twitter.com/saigonnezumi I took my new…

Thank you Apple!!! :-) Because of your new requirements that buyers must unlock their iPhones at the ATT Store or your Apple Stores, it will be more difficult to bring…

From: beelerb: Some lucky company is going to find just the right place for this guy and make millions. Seriously. http://127.0.0.1:8091/ In a way, I already made…

(My new motorbike, 2008 Yamaha Nouvo RC) Well, I replaced my aging 4 year old red 2003 Yamaha Nouvo RC with the 2008 red Yamaha Nouvo RC. Trying to get my hands on one…

I was using pacman to update my Arch Linux Desktop this morning. As it was downloading OpenOffice, I was shocked to see how fast the downloads were. The average was…

Interesting, today there are two news reports about Asians getting overweight. The BBC published a news report today mentioning that one out of four Chinese adults were…

This is big news if you are a fan of Gentoo Linux such as I am. Though I have used Unix and Linux for about a year before trying Gentoo back in September, 2003, Gentoo…

Arch Linux has been added to the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror at the following URI's: 1. ftp://ftp.indochinalinux.com/archlinux/ 2. ftp://202.78.230.5/archlinux From…

I hate EVN sometimes. Yesterday the EVN guy gave my house the 'Pink' notice. Normally you get a pink notice after you have missed the deadline of the 'green' notice. You…

Last week my Web Content Editor, Vi Truong, celebrated her 21st birthday with her friends and I at Gloria Jean's Coffee in District 1 of Saigon. It was an interesting…

I just finisihed designing the new Vscapeone website (English version) last night and uploaded it online. A friend is still proofreading it and Vi, my web content…

I dropped by the Yamaha Service Center and noticed some new color scheme Nouvos. Sure enough, Yamaha Vietnam just released the Nouvo RC (I ride a 2003 Nouvo RC). I was a…