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Well, Tet is long passed now but many of the stores still have not restocked their shelves. Unfortunately for me, one key item that I need to keep my 3 heavy-eating cats…

I love Big C, they are located all across Saigon now. The Big C located on Hoang Van Thu street in the Phu Nhuan District is one of the biggest Big Cs in Saigon. You can…

Well, I got lucky. On the day I really craved for Indian food, Mumtaz just happened to open up while many other restaurants remained closed during the last days of Tet…

Nope, just running Windows XP with VMWare Server in Gentoo Linux. I wanted to use my Canon LBP 3200i laser printer. Unfortunately, there is not a working driver for…

I am not sure if many of you who read my blog knows, but I originally came to Vietnam back in May, 2004, as a volunteer to help out with Vietnamese Amerasians. In the…

FreeBSD Ports for Vietnamese BSD users can be found at the following URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/vietnamese.html These Ports will work with DesktopBSD and PC-BSD…

This Tet is unusually quiet when compared to Tet a year ago. The streets are deserted, shops still closed, hardly any life in the city right now. At night the food…

I will admit it, I am a Mobile Suit Gundam fan. I have watched the entire season for Gundam SEED already. I am currently watching Gundam SEED Destiny and Mobile Suit…

At approximately 9:45 PM last night, the power went out for part of the Phu Nhuan District, Tan Binh District and District 10 (roughly from the canal area south to…

My Linux roots actually started back at Indiana University (Bloomington) where I was a graduate student with the School and Environmental Affairs in September, 2002. One of my majors was in Information Systems and I was lucky enough to take a Vector-base…

Tet is only 7 hours away. Saigon is very quiet today, hardly any traffic on the streets today. This is the best time of the year to live in Saigon, the only time the…

My poor Dell Inspiron 8100 notebook died on me again today. The same thing happened back in April, 2006. Like before, the power supply unit burned out. It survived just…

Yesterday I went out with some of my friends to get a haircut. Maybe that was a mistake on my part. I just wanted a haircut but I was convinced to get a shave too. This…

See the truck in the far distance? Lately, both cars and trucks have been ignoring the ban forbidding them to drive along the canal during the construction. The police…

Well, six days away from Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. This is the last week of class at the American International School, where I teach computer science, before the…

A lot of drama going around the Gentoo Linux Community these days. Daniel Robbins, the creator of Gentoo, would like some control of Gentoo again. There are a lot of…

Sorry guys for bailing out on Maxim's last night. I have two projects due tomorrow morning and another one to complete hopefully before Tet. I have been burning the…

The weather has been really strange in Saigon lately. For the last three days, it has actually rained which is unheard of in Saigon. It is supposed to be the dry season…

Yesterday I decided to give PC-BSD a try in my classroom. It was probably not the best day to try out PC-BSD since the electricity kept cutting off. My students were…

I have been reading this blog about the Vietnam stock market for some time now. Duy Phung, the maintainer of this blog, does a pretty good job in keeping track of the…