Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 20 September 2008
Pardon the corny title. :) Yesterday, I was able to buy an MSI Wind U100 with some money from a savings account that my dad started when I was smaller (thanks, Dad). I needed to be more mobile, and he agreed that a laptop would be a good investment.
I’ve named it Teacup, after the ones [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 18 September 2008
“In Uruguay the parents wait for the kids to go to bed so they can use the laptops. So you saw people move to rural communities… so their kids could take advantage of [the laptops]. In Rwanda the families brought electricity to the schools so that the kids could keep using the laptops.”
I find that [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 3 September 2008
I’m writing this post from Google Chrome. Can I just say how happy I am, that although it probably resembles Vista more, the title/tab bar reminds me of Ubuntu? *sniff*
I first read about Chrome this morning, when a co-worker brought it up. I had a lot of fun reading the comic (learned a lot, too), [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 26 July 2008
Yesterday was my first day at my first job (yay for me!) as a writer/researcher for the website of a local megachurch. :) I’m pretty psyched.
I don’t have a workstation of my own yet, so I had to borrow a laptop from their tech bank. It’s an IBM unit that runs Windows XP. A few [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 17 July 2008
Wah.
Come on, guys. What’s wrong with learning something new, and saving your school money while you’re at it?
clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net
MAKATI City, Philippines — Local school St. Paul College Pasig (SPCP) has recently decided to replace its existing open source system to standardize on Windows Vista and the latest Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Philippines said.
Microsoft [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 16 June 2008
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried to download the Xubuntu alternate ISO. I’ve tried downloading through Firefox’s download manager, a different download manager, and through Transmission (the bittorrent client that came with Hardy Heron), and for some reason, I can’t get one with the right hash. :(
See, we’re trying to breathe life [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 13 June 2008
Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!
As cheesy as “Hello world!” gets, I think that considering the spirit of this blog, I won’t change the title of my first entry. It just brings me back to grade school, when we were learning to do… ANYTHING on the [...]
