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Wow, I still cannot believe that 10 years ago, I experienced my first Siberian winter as a volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Karatau, Kazakhstan. Boy what a…

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…

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…

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 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…

(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…

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

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…

Over a week ago, it was costing about $100-150 to unlock iPhones here in Vietnam. With last week's release of iUnlock, the prices have now dropped down to 400,000 VND…

I just successfully installed Sabayon Linux on my IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60. Wow, I am quite impressed. This is the first Linux install ever where all the devices were…

Promoting Linux and Open Source Software in Vietnam was never an easy task but despite the many Window's naysayers in Vietnam, Linux is beginning to take hold in…

Yesterday, my student here in Saigon installed Ubuntu Linux on his laptop. At first he was a little nervous but with some coaching, he was able to install the Ubuntu…

Are you a Linux user tired of all the uproar the iPhone has been getting lately? then the Linux-based Openmoko mobile phone is the one for you :-) Visit the Openmoko…

Here is a nice and thorough tutorial on how to use the GRUB bootloader: From the website: One of the most frightening things about Linux is the horrible word bootloader…

The weekend before I left Winlock for Vietnam, I headed up to Seattle in my father's pickup. Here is an oddity, a lack of traffic on Interstate 5. Thanks to Labor Day…

Seattle's Best Coffee, bought out by Starbucks, is actually my favorite coffee chain in Seattle. Now they are just available at McDonalds and some other locations…

I saw this at Tacoma Mall today. I want one :-) (Nice Hot Sporty Red Ninja) (Too Fast for Saigon???)

Some pictures from my parent's town, Winlock. Winlock is about 100 miles (160 km) from Seattle. It is a very quiet area. My parents live about 10 minutes from downtown…

Well, it is now Day 4 for me in the US. The flight over the Pacific with Eva Air was actually quite pleasant. I was able to sleep most of the flight but now I am having…

Tomorrow, Friday, August 24, 2007, I will finally return to Washington State after spending nearly two years without leaving Vietnam. Whether it is coincidence or not, I…