August 2008

Com Chay Thuyen Vien For those of you who keep complaining that vegetarian restaurants are more expensive then meat restaurants, you will love this post. I am eating…

Just four months ago, I posted about the possibility of an early rainy season based of my dog's shedding. Sure enough, we got some rainfall a couple weeks later. That…

Not a story that you will see to often in Vietnam. Wealth here tends to stay within a small group closely connected to Hanoi. The new wealth we tend to call these…

Finally! I got my my current Ayumi theme template to validate as XHTML again. This was a bit tough until I found that there was an extra </span> tag in one of the…

Amazing, got another student to use Ubuntu. Actually, he chose to install Ubuntu himself which greatly impressed me. Today at AIS, I watched him install Ubuntu himself…

Well, I decided that I will start forcing myself to eat Vegetarian at least three times a week now. I meant to start this a year ago but I got lax. Now I am ready…

Quite odd, there are 4 funerals around my alleyway just in the last week. Quite odd, is this normal for August? I was in the US parts of last August so it is hard for me…

In a surprise move, the Vietnamese government price of petrol was lowered from 19,000 VND/liter to 18,000 VND/liter. It was surprising because everyone was expecting the…

Two nights ago, my neighbor had his Yamaha Nouvo stolen from him right in front of his house. The thieves were very good. Nobody knew they were taking the motorbike…

VietnamNet Bridge just published an article on the affect of global warming on Vietnam's coastline. It seems that Vietnam will build dykes along a large portion of the…

More video shots from my HTC Touch Cruise that I recently uploaded to YouTube. I know Ishould get a real video camera but I am amazed what my mobile phone can do. The…

My former student, Wendy, showed me her brand new white 3G iPhone last Friday. I was surprised, it was very nice. I hate to say it, the design is much better than the…

It is Monday morning and I am back at Java Cafe. I really need to start working on an open source presentation which I knew I would not be able to do at home. Too many…

Just a writing a post for my students. I want them to set up LAMP and Laconica on their Ubuntu desktops for their projects. LAMP is a software bundle that includes…

I am currently at Java Cafe in District 1 this morning. The electricity was turned off in my area at 8 AM. It will be turned back on roughly at 6 PM. I guess my area…

VietnamNet Bridge just published a report in regards to petrol price hike. The Ministry of Industry and Trade stated they had no intentions to raise the price of petrol…

Rumor going around Saigon today is that the price of petrol will be 25,000 VND/liter within the week. At that price, most of the people riding the old style motorbikes…

I decided to finally install Ubuntu 8.04.1 on my desktop today. One issue I seem to always have with a new Linux distribution is trying to figure out how to get surround…

I started teaching Flash to my AIS Immersion students last week. I decided to take advantage of one of my Teaching Assistants, Michael Pham, and had him prepare the…

It all started at around 3:45 PM today. I was on my motorbike in District 5 when the first drops of the rain fall came. It immediately turned into a downpour that ended…