Imported from my LiveJournal.
  • Brother Felix Mason, FSC
    1919 - 2008

  • I’ve been trying to find a copy online (or at least a summary of) Gilingang Bato by Edgardo Reyes. The short story was published in the 1960s. It depicts a poor family who own a small millstone for griding rice; they sell rice cakes and other sweets to subsist.

  • Actual occurrence, just five minutes ago:

  • Since I'm a bastard to please, I've again switched away from ion3. I'm now back to using Openbox 3 as my work environment, though I believe it to be suboptimal for my workflow. Call me fickle. Details under the cut.

  • If you’ve ever seen me work, you probably know that I am quite comfortable with the command line. In fact, I prefer opening a terminal or writing a shell script rather than booting up a file manager; I can do a lot more on the command line, without taking my hands off the keyboard.

  • Hiatus.

    On Indefinite Hiatus. Will probably post some twitts.

  • Recently, we’ve been assigned to assist another company in a development/maintenance role. They had an existing web application, written in Java and used by a large number of users— the web application was up and running and they needed to modify the application to interface with an external system, but they did not have the people who knew Java well enough onboard and the previous developers were no longer available to help them in this. That’s where we came in: we provided the needed skills to add the feature in.

  • Ping

    This is a test of the emergency broadcast system

  • I am quite interested in a wide swath of technologies, some esoteric, some popular. Particularly, I follow the news on various libraries and tools. I like to keep my toolbox full.