22 months after my original idea about moving my blog to my own host, I finally did it.  So this probably is going to be my farewell post to Livejournal.

Just like any other places, there are both good and bad things about working here, where I'm at. The company has many great benefits, and other programs. One of them comes in the form of an employee requirement--each of us are supposed to take minimum of 40 hours of training in job related topics each year. Which is great. They really want us ( Read more... )

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So soon after I ramble about something, another potential solution pops up - The Zend Framework. This looks interesting. Because of its simple design, it seems to have less dependency on libraries and stuff. And it should be fitting in more environment than other frameworks ( Read more... )

I knew it's been possible for years and years. But for some reason, I could NEVER figure out how to do this. Last night, I took another plunge at setting up the environment up so I can type Japanese on Linux again. This time, the tools used were Ubuntu running XFCE desktop (Xubuntu), anthy, and uim. I followed some instructions on various ubuntu ( Read more... )

[22:48] installing wordpress was so, so, so easy
[22:48] I'm thinking about moving my blog from LJ to my server
[22:48] yea, LJ sucks
[22:48] be leet
[22:48] and host your own
[22:48] hahaha ( Read more... )

Beware - highly geek whining ahead. And it's rather unorganized ( Read more... )

That's what I've got to say for today. Really, you don't want to hear about 6 months worth of my monotonous life.

OK, let's spice up the post a bit.
100% corn socks - socks made out of corn. Yup. Instead of using cotton or wool or petrolium based fabric. And Kansas produces helluva lot of corn - most of it for cattles, but others for ethanol ( Read more... )

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8443560&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

No, I don't buy that.  That's screwed up!