Entries from October 2005

A Bisaya FAQ for Knoppix

October 28th, 2005 · No Comments

There’s a Bisaya FAQ for Knoppix. The link was posted in the ce-gnu-lug mailing list. The document still needs work and I hope more people would help maintain it.

Tags: Asides

Revisiting Serversidewiki.com

October 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Early this morning I revisited my ServerSideWiki.com account for the first time in more than a month. I used my account again because the free host of my ZiddlyWiki, Freezope.org, was inaccessible this morning and my previous host’s service has become intermittent. As I said in my previous posts on ZiddlyWiki and ServersideWiki, the free [...]

Tags: Asides

Radical WordPress theme

October 27th, 2005 · No Comments

I changed the theme of Sun.Star’s Blog Chronicles to Kiwi, a theme that’s so different from most WordPress themes available. I still have to customize the design, though. For a while, I thought of using it for this site but I still have to find a way to implement asides the way it is being [...]

Tags: Asides

Protests in the time of Friendster and Google bombing

October 27th, 2005 · 5 Comments

When you say protest action, the typical tibak or activist will tell you about methods in staging rallies, what to bring in gatherings etc. (in my time they told us to bring toothpaste and a hanky and to write the name of a lawyer and his phone number in our wrist). Online protests don’t seem [...]

Tags: Highlights · Internet · Personal

Institutional support for Pinoy journalists who blog

October 27th, 2005 · No Comments

A broadcast station is reportedly due to issue corporate guidelines on blogging. Among other things, the guidelines bar its workers from blogging about work. On the other hand, another broadcast station is very supportive of the blogging efforts of its Malacañang reporter.
During last Saturday’s blogging conference organized by PCIJ, the institutional support for journalists who [...]

Tags: Blogs · Highlights · Journalism

Transferring my notes wiki

October 26th, 2005 · No Comments

I finally transferred my ZiddlyWiki from Objectis.net to a FreeZope.org hosting. The services of Objectis.net have been erratic lately and ZiddlyWiki creator Tim Morgan told users to transfer to FreeZope. The new installation process - created because FreeZope doesn’t allow quick imports - is even easier. I use ZiddlyWiki extensively for my notes, usually taken [...]

Tags: Asides