September 2008

It's hard to believe that nearly 12 years ago, I was a still a US Marine. Nearly 18 years ago I was in boot camp. I still have dreams of my drill instructors, the last…

Well, Noodlepie is probably wondering why I have not blogged about the restaurants I eat in Saigon for awhile. I just forget to take some pictures of the meals I eat…

Hi friends from Vietnam Linux User Group, I am Pockey Lam from Beijing LUG in China, Beijing LUG is co-organizing the first GNOME.Asia Summit with GNOME Foundation this…

I decided to test my bandwidth speeds with both Speakeasy and Speedtest. I am surprised at the speeds right now: Speakeasy (Seattle server): 2402 kbps Download Speed 516…

I just converted from Portage to Paludis about 30 minutes ago on my Gentoo system. Paludis is an alternative package manager for the very buggy Portage maintained by…

Just checked the stats for the browser usage of the last 500 visitors. Firefox still leads followed by a slipping Internet Explorer. Chrome made a comeback and I think…

Thanks to pclouds for sharing this link with me. I heard rumors about it but finally there is a FPT-sponsored Linux mirror in Vietnam. That is great news!!! Even better…

Due to my busy schedule of the previous week, it actually took me roughly a week to finally get my Gentoo 2008.0 Desktop and configured. This is the first time in over…

Yesterday I gave a presentation about Open Source Business Applications for Vina Consulting at the Saigon Times Club. We just had a short time to prepare for it but I…

A Vietnamese doctor prescribed some more medicine today. I should have done it last weekend. My cold subsided but the coughing did not. With the current cold climate and…

Today I heard the most unusual story, well maybe not that unusual, about a Western guy who really wanted a Vietnamese girlfriend. At first when I heard it, I thought the…

I want to introduce the Saigon Blog community to Ms. Huyen's, aka Chip, technology blog, Chip 2.0. Chip was instrumental to the success of the first HCMC Twitter…

Big change since I posted 6.8% Chrome usage - SaigonNezumi.com. Firefox and Safari usages has increased significantly for SaigonNezumi.com this week. This is the first…

Yes, I really am thinking about it. I am not fat, really, I'm not but recently several students and significant friends have been calling me Mr. Bung Bu (Big Belly) :-)…

Well, I am not surprised here and we all suspected it anyway. It explains why my motorbike can go from getting 29 km/litter one day to 33 km/litter on another. It…

Thanks to Michael Pham, an 11th grader from the American International School, BarCamp Saigon now has a logo. I asked Michael if he could do it with my requirements…

Well, I have been running Ubuntu on my desktop for over a month. In that short period of time, I found that Ubuntu is just not for me. I love it on my Thinkpad, do not…

My house lease ends on January 7, 2009, but we are trying to find a way to end the lease now. I signed a 3 year lease through the advise of a Viet Kieu 'contact' that I…

I am seeing a large number of new websites here in Vietnam, including my own, talking about SEO, aka search engine optimization. Many are offering services to help your…

Wow, I started this post 2 hours ago, got really tired from the medicine and conked out. Back up again but I am not sure how long for. On the way home from District 1…