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Howdy lazywebbers!  I am currently in the market for purchasing a decent, relatively inexpensive portable music player. These are just some of my preferences for such a device:

• Must work with Linux of course
• Must support ogg vorbis either natively or by using rockbox
• Must be small, something around the size of the iPod Shuffle or a tad bit larger
• I don’t want to pay a lot for it, and I know you typically get what you pay for, but I will be using this while doing some extreme workouts and biking events.

I know if it is out there, you all will know. I went to a couple of stores today and none of them jumped out at me except for the Sansa Clip, which is nice and I heard it support ogg with a new firmware upgrade, plus it has FM radio on it. If any of you have this and it works well, let me know, as that might be the one I am looking for.

I've had http://michellecox.name for a while but never knew what to do with it. I don't need another place to blog as I barely (read: really don't) keep up with the places I already have to blog. I already have a family website so it wasn't useful for that, either. I bought it on a whim and was debating just dropping it again when it expired.

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I just learned today that my review of Mint 5 “Elyssa” got noticed by the creator and main developer of the hottest distro in town himself, Clem Lefebvre. I thank him for taking the time to write about my Elyssa review on The Linux Mint Blog.

I really appreciate it when my articles got feedbacks be it positive or negative. Hence, I’m very grateful about this latest comment from Mr. Mint. Here are some key excerpts from his review of my review of Mint 5:

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Source: TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL

Though considered by many as the world’s greatest computer programmer, Linus Torvalds is not afraid to show everyone his softer side. Some of the photographs that I’m going to show to you should speak for themselves.

I’m on a short vacation at the moment together with my family, and I have been strictly prohibited to touch any electronic device by my wife and child. But, they are already sleeping tight right now so I’m about to make a quick post to keep you all updated on what’s been going on.

Big Bang

We are about to celebrate our town fiesta so I'm not doing much today. In case you are wondering where on earth do I live, I have a satellite view of my home province of Bohol below courtesy of Google Maps. The one with the green arrow and is labeled Talibon (not Taliban) is my hometown. Zooming in will not give you many details because there's not much photographic data yet for our part of the globe, hence what can be seen for now are mostly grasses.

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In other news... I miss distro hopping, that's why I'm writing a "to-try" list here:
-Deli Linux
-openSUSE
-Epidemic GNU/Linux
-TinyMe
-Linux Mint

I also miss playing Linux games; here is my "to-play" list:
-World of Padman
-Alien Arena 2008

Sitting all day in front of the computer is not exactly a healthy habit. However, if your job demands you to be at your desk all day long, then perhaps you should try some of these simple exercises that could help save your life in the long run.

1. Try to stand up every hour to stretch or walk around a bit.

2. Give your eyes a break from focusing on your computer screen. Stretch your calves as this will help prevent blood clots from developing in your legs -- very common among middle-aged computer users.

3. From time to time, stretch your neck. Flex your head forward/backward, side to side and look right and left.

4. If you spend a lot of time typing, roll your wrists regularly to help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.

5. To help improve blood circulation, roll your ankles regularly.

This is the perfect example of a lame blog post: I was super busy today all day long, without the time to write a proper post (I had two subjects in my mind, one involving a screencast for translators and another a couple of tips for icon creation) but at the same time I wanted to test Seth's changes at Planet Fedora (more about coolness potential in it in a future post) and I had to update the countdown, as it is close to finish, so sorry for the noise.

There is and on-going meme on the Romaian "blogosphere" and I am going with it: Marius Tuca is an onanist. That is very clear from his recent article.

For my English readers: the guy is a well known Romanian journalist (written press and TV) who recently published a piece where he calls the Romanian bloggers "onanists", here is my translation of a quote from the above-mentioned article: "...Romanian bloggers are nothing else than worms who got to the surface without having something to say, ready to flood the space with banalities and originalities known and told by everyone, in a common masturbation..."

In unrelated news, I keep counting down:

I was so carried away with the idea of the Fedora 9 release countdown that I couldn't stop myself from creating a counter for a "personal" project (the counter is plain and boring: static images, without any scripting or autoupdate):

Now, obviously, the bets are open for what I am counting down to...

I will not be posting some tech stuff today because we are celebrating the fiesta of Tagbilaran City, my second home. We Filipinos, even those who are abroad will always find time to celebrate and honor the feast day of our patron saint. So, I would like to greet everyone from Tagbilaran, Bohol a Happy Fiesta!

I will also take this opportunity to announce my upcoming game reviews - I haven't done it for a while now. Anyway, I still can't decide which to try out first among these first person shooter games for Linux:

*World of Padman
*Alien Arena 2008
*Warsow
*Sauerbraten

Any suggestions?

Part of my day job (and reason why I love it) is working with guys from OLPC Croatia in spreading a word and intention of this project. Yesterday we had great presentation in Varaždin and they are interested in pilot project.

With news like this it seems that we are fighting windmills. I hope that we are not wrong to invest time and effort into this since my first day of experience with little green thing is very positive.

For a start let me clear some doubts: it is slow machine. Keyboard is really different (much worse than Eee PC for example), but if you don't press it harder than needed (which was my problem) it's actually O.K. It's also heavier than Eee PC (which somehow I noticed carrying it around) but other than that it great machine.

Tomorrow afternoon Jeff, Gabriel (if he is feeling better), and I will set out from Chicago to Troy, Michigan for Penguicon. Looks like I will be hanging out with the Ubuntu Michigan crowd for the weekend, listening to some talks, drinking Jorge’s and Jono’s beer when they aren’t looking. Hey, I am a starving student, flat out broke. I have $20 in my name right now and searching for more before leaving tomorrow I don’t even have a place to stay yet, but I think Jorge said it best, who sleeps at a geek fest

Anyways, if you are heading to Penguicon, drop me a note here in the comments and if you want to buy me beer, food, or just hang out during the weekend, let me know

First of all, we had first ever Croatian perl workshop. Thanks to all the people who showed up, we had attendance of about ten.

Organizing a workshop event turned out to be much more work then I anticipated, and various other tasks stopped me from preparing for it as good as I should. Also, small number of people force me to re-consider my lectures about perl. On one hand, I really, really, tried to spread perl (and had good fortune of being at right place at right time to get Zagreb.pm off the ground), but with such low attendance, I must conclude that perl is used only by about 20 people in Zagreb. This seems somehow disturbing. Comparing size of Zagreb with Moscow turned out to show about same proportion, so I was just overly optimistic.