Dong Abay sings at the Rocked Age exhibit
Went to the ROCKED AGE: Images of Loud Music Exhibit last Thursday at the Metropolitan Museum. I made my write-up over here, but didn’t do a critique of the show itself. What do I think? Maybe because I was spoiled in college to lots of modern and conceptual art, that its difficult for me to get into anything else but that. And thats what I THINK.
Flickr photoset of the event over here.
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BREAKING NEWS: Flickr is going to Manila!
I have kept my distance from the blogger scene, the meetups, and anything else that would remind me that I should have probably considered getting into this possible revenue-stream source, since I’ve been keeping web journals for about 6 years already, blah blah blah, but the promise of free food got me.
So, I was at the Taste Asia Blogger Food Fest last night, at the SM Mall of Asia, where 100++ bloggers converged, and were fed generously by SM Hypermart’s Taste Asia.
Links of the day:
- WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system that enables you to deal with Wikipedia (or any Mediawiki-based site) articles as if they were real files. (source/via,)
- The Free Me DVD, a project to help promote free culture, has just made the iso image to download (via/source) No torrent yet, though.
- Photojournalist Robbie Cooper captured images of gamers and their real-life selves. View the thumbnail galleries here, and here, and see the book ‘Alter Ego: Avatars and Their Creators‘ on Amazon here. (via)
- Former US House Speaker Gingrich To Conservatives: Don’t Talk About Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, Attorneys, Or Bush (source)
- HOW TO - Improve your photography with classical art (source/via). And how to do this in GIMP (from the GIMPGuru Tutorials).
- And on a lighter note: here are a few reasons not to get too drunk with friends.
Tags: asides, news-culture, photography, webtech
LOTD: Of Alter Egos, and Other Misc Geekery
If you haven’t read the first installment in my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn diary, do so, before reading on.
I spoke too soon: Windows XP still lives, but because of the partitioning mishap, I went ahead and tried to defrag that partition. Wasn’t completely successful, but I’ve went online earlier, and behavior was normal.
And NOW, I have sound on Ubuntu!
Since getting a new dual core CPU last December, I’ve only really used Windows XP. Believe me, I tried Ubuntu Linux, but when I run from the Live CD, I can’t get any sound.
So, I waited until yesterday, when the newest version, Feisty Fawn, was set to be released. Fired up the torrent client, slept, realized I didn’t have any blank CDs anymore, waited until evening when the Bulacan summer heat was a lot more tolerable, bought CDr’s, went home, burned the installer image, and went into ultra-geek mode.
Then things went wrong. Very wrong.