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Pictures are worth a thousand words… Some more screenshots for your enjoyment.

It’s been three days since I got my N800. I’m am still trying to find comfort when using this device for text entries (like this post). Screen keyboard is not my thing since I am used to Qwerty keyboard like what my Palm Treo 650 have.

Misconceptions. Like what other N800 users who blogged about their gadget, this device is NOT A PHONE. This is more like a laptop companion. N800 device as well as Nokia 770 are called Internet Tablet. The wireless capability is really good. It can detect WLAN accesss point better than my laptop.

Power Computing. I must say that this device is a complete powerful system. It is Linux under the hood courtesy of Debian, SSH client and server courtesy of Dropbear, VOIP functionality provided by Skype, IRC and instant messaging using Pidgin (GAIM), Wordpress client using MaemoWordPy, web browsing using Opera. FM tuning is an added bonus!

This is definitly handy and lightweight than carrying laptop. I’m keeping my faith on this device. Should I say, “If it’s Linux it must be fun!”?

Yes, i became a caveman for quite sometime but I’m back now. Sorry about not posting anything. Does anybody care around here? I am just regaining my strengths because I know I need it with my current position/work at the office - senior software engineer (whoa!) Nothing special really, it’s just a tag and a number of responsibilities that goes along with it. About my current work, we support our mother company’s network of e-commerce sites in the US. The team where I belong handles integration and is responsible that our flagship sites stays healthy 24/7. It’s a tough job actually but kind of exciting and educational.

I also planned to learn CakePHP very soon. I used to tinkered with it when it was just pre-alpha but got frustrated because of the lack of documentations, examples and community support. During that time, Ruby On Rails was still and should I say, HOT-HOT-HOT. But now, PHP developers got CakePHP to work with ala-rails magic!

I’m also itching on becoming a “netreprenuer” someday (if not soon) so I joined Netrepreneur Philippines. They’ve got an internet discussion hosted by Yahoo Groups. If you feel that you want to become a billionaire someday, join us. I must tell you though that at the moment the discussion group doesn’t have as much traffic as someone would expect. It’s just new anyway. A few spam here and there but I’m hoping that fruitful discussion will start flowing in my Gmail inbox soon.

That’s it. Sorry about wrong grammars & spelling. I’m not a professional writer nor good in english. I just don’t edit or proof read my posts most of the time. I just live clicking “publish” button and modify later! More tech updates soon.

I’ve been a Gmail user for quite some time already. I love the interface and logging in is as secure as I want it to be. However, once a user has provided the correct user name and password, the system redirect the request to a unsecure site for accessing the mails. That’s not good. I don’t know why Google is doing that but I just don’t like my emails being sent as clear-text to and from my terminal.

Recently, I figured out a way to redirect to the secure version of the mail interface. To do that, type https://mail.google.com/mail on your browser’s address bar or click here. Now, your browser will be redirected to an SSL secured version of the mail interface upon a successful login.

I’ve been away from blogging - I know. Sorry for that! As if gazillions of people are actually reading this blog. (haha) The primary reason for being absent is I am quite busy right now learning the ins-and-outs of my new job. The work description is still the same, web application developer. However, this time I am working as a Senior Software Engineer supporting a network of e-commerce sites that caters to thousands (if not millions) of visitors per day. I am tasked to learn how the whole system works and will do some integration projects in order to push products to different sales channels/markets on the web. It is exciting actually. I will try to post usual stuff here as soon as I become confortable in my job. Regards!

Whew! After months of on and off blogging, Google finally gaved me a PR 3 rating today(? not so sure about the exact index update). I used to have a PR0 rating so I guess having a PR3 is a big jump.

Source: PRChecker.info

Thank you very much Google for that wonderful 3/10! Most importantly, thank you to all the incoming links and blog readers.