Tumbler, Facebook, WordPress, Mambo/Joomla… Still undecided which to
settle into. My original posts were in the Mambo/joomla CMS so moving
away means loosing my old posts.
This is the reason why when I was testing out wordpress with my own install, I used http://www1.purity.ph. Now with Tumblr, which I found I can change to the domain that I have, I customized the domain on my Tumblr account to http://notes.purity.ph
Update June 26, 2013
I've decided to delete the Wordpress site and consolidate the contents here. Moving each article so some of the contents may no longer apply.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
From Palm Treo to a Nokia N900
My faithful Palm Treo 650 has occationally been acting up so I decided to get a replacement.
I would wish to get the Palm Pre Plus or the Pixi but the price is on the extreme end & it has not exactly come to the local shores. Hopefully with the purchase of Palm by HP, they will bring it in at a more affordable price.
Due to being accustomed to the convenience of a qwerty keyboard & touchsceen of the Palm, my minimum criteria for getting a new phone was those. This ruled out both the Iphone & the Blackberry. I also need to be able to read & write in Chinese since a number of my contacts have Chinese names & sometimes need to receive sms in Chinese.
So searching for alternatives led me to the Nokia N900. One of the main reason that this made it attractive for me was the underlying OS that is linux. Being opensource means more freedom to choose & free software.
Shifting to the N900 takes a lot of getting used to. the qwerty keypad has bigger keys & the width spans the length of the phone in landscape mode so the thumbs have to move across more area. The texture is a little rough so using the fingernails like I do on the Treo makes the feel a bit weird.
Among the first things I need to do was to ensure that I got Chinese support in so I can read & write with it. I installed mscim-googlepinyin & I was able to enter the characters. The problem though is that it conflicts with the virtual keyboard so I am stuck with using the qwerty for the english input.
Once the chinese characters are working, its time to migrate my data. on my Treo, I’m using KeySuite from Chapura rather the built-in Contacts. KeySuite allowed me to sync the data to Microsoft Outlook & the full range of data fields like 19 phone numbers & emails plus personal details like spouse & anniversaries. Nokia on the other hand uses PC Suite to sync Outlook with the phone. There is a new alternative called Ovi Suite but it currently does not support the N900.
After installing PC Suite & syncing the data, I realized I have big problems. A lot of the data are missing like Middle Names, Title, Suffix, Spouse, Anniversry, children. These fields I’ve used to the fullest on the Treo. To migrate, the least I have to change is to edit the Middle Names & move the phone numbers around. Other those, I won’t be able to access all the information I’ve collected over the years. Also, it appears that the N900 does not even have a basic search function for its contents. This is one nightmare for me since all my data are stored.
Now I’m editing all my contacts just so I have the basic names and still trying to find an alternative program that will allow me to have all my data and be able to sync with Outlook. If you know one, let me know.
I would wish to get the Palm Pre Plus or the Pixi but the price is on the extreme end & it has not exactly come to the local shores. Hopefully with the purchase of Palm by HP, they will bring it in at a more affordable price.
Due to being accustomed to the convenience of a qwerty keyboard & touchsceen of the Palm, my minimum criteria for getting a new phone was those. This ruled out both the Iphone & the Blackberry. I also need to be able to read & write in Chinese since a number of my contacts have Chinese names & sometimes need to receive sms in Chinese.
So searching for alternatives led me to the Nokia N900. One of the main reason that this made it attractive for me was the underlying OS that is linux. Being opensource means more freedom to choose & free software.
Shifting to the N900 takes a lot of getting used to. the qwerty keypad has bigger keys & the width spans the length of the phone in landscape mode so the thumbs have to move across more area. The texture is a little rough so using the fingernails like I do on the Treo makes the feel a bit weird.
Among the first things I need to do was to ensure that I got Chinese support in so I can read & write with it. I installed mscim-googlepinyin & I was able to enter the characters. The problem though is that it conflicts with the virtual keyboard so I am stuck with using the qwerty for the english input.
Once the chinese characters are working, its time to migrate my data. on my Treo, I’m using KeySuite from Chapura rather the built-in Contacts. KeySuite allowed me to sync the data to Microsoft Outlook & the full range of data fields like 19 phone numbers & emails plus personal details like spouse & anniversaries. Nokia on the other hand uses PC Suite to sync Outlook with the phone. There is a new alternative called Ovi Suite but it currently does not support the N900.
After installing PC Suite & syncing the data, I realized I have big problems. A lot of the data are missing like Middle Names, Title, Suffix, Spouse, Anniversry, children. These fields I’ve used to the fullest on the Treo. To migrate, the least I have to change is to edit the Middle Names & move the phone numbers around. Other those, I won’t be able to access all the information I’ve collected over the years. Also, it appears that the N900 does not even have a basic search function for its contents. This is one nightmare for me since all my data are stored.
Now I’m editing all my contacts just so I have the basic names and still trying to find an alternative program that will allow me to have all my data and be able to sync with Outlook. If you know one, let me know.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR THOSE OVER FIFTY YEARS OLD
Got this in the email. Read them even if you’re not yet 50 and some might not apply now.
The Ten Commandments for those over fifty years old:
TAKE AWAY ALL MY WORRIES AND ILLNESSES; IN JESUS ‘ NAME. AMEN.”
The Ten Commandments for those over fifty years old:
- Focus on enjoying people, not on indulging in or accumulating material
things. - Plan to spend whatever you have saved. You deserve to enjoy it and the
few healthy years you have left. Travel if you can afford it. - Don’t leave anything for your children or loved ones to quarrel about. By leaving
anything, you may even cause more trouble when you are gone. - Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays and tomorrows. It is only today that you can handle. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen.
- Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are blessed with any) but don’t be their full-time baby sitter. You have no moral obligation to take care of them. Don’t have any guilt about refusing to baby sit anyone’s kids, including your own grandkids. Your parental obligation is to raise your children. After you have raised them into responsible children, your duties of child-rearing and babysitting are finished. Let your children raise their own offspring.
- Accept physical weakness, sickness and other physical pains. It is a part of the aging process. Enjoy whatever your health can allow. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now. Stop working hard for what you do not have. If you do not have them, it’s probably late.
- Just enjoy your life with your spouse, children, grandchildren and friends. People, who truly love you, love you for yourself, not for what you have. Anyone who loves you for what you have will just give you misery.
- Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourself and others. Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul.
- Befriend death. It’s a natural part of the life cycle. Don’t be afraid of it. Death is the beginning of a new and better life. So, prepare yourself not for death but for a new life.
- Be at peace with Our Lord God. For. . . He is all you have after you leave this life.
JUST 19 WORDS:
TAKE AWAY ALL MY WORRIES AND ILLNESSES; IN JESUS ‘ NAME. AMEN.”
Friday, October 23, 2009
“Social Not-working”
Just when I was just getting started on Twitter, I read this article by Clarissa Catalina Repollo from the China Business Magazine’s October, 2009 issue entitled “Social Not-working”.
The first sentence says “Facebook works the brain, but Twitter is a drain”.
According to Dr. Tracy Alloway, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, “Facebook holds loads of information that helps people improve their ability to recall information and use it. Twitter on the other hand, has the opposite effect. It produces streams of information every second that people, in turn loose the chance to process every bit of information in the brain.”
With some much information coming in from so many people, the brain no longer concentrate to process that information since new information keeps coming in. This is probably the same as watching television. With the visual and sound stimuli working so fast, we often don’t even notice the details anymore.
One advise I read was to read mystery novels, the ones that make you think and try to solve the crime. So right now, I’ve dug out my old copy of my Agatha Christie and see if I can get my brains working again.
The first sentence says “Facebook works the brain, but Twitter is a drain”.
According to Dr. Tracy Alloway, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, “Facebook holds loads of information that helps people improve their ability to recall information and use it. Twitter on the other hand, has the opposite effect. It produces streams of information every second that people, in turn loose the chance to process every bit of information in the brain.”
With some much information coming in from so many people, the brain no longer concentrate to process that information since new information keeps coming in. This is probably the same as watching television. With the visual and sound stimuli working so fast, we often don’t even notice the details anymore.
One advise I read was to read mystery novels, the ones that make you think and try to solve the crime. So right now, I’ve dug out my old copy of my Agatha Christie and see if I can get my brains working again.
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