July 2008 Archives

I can't help it but to embed something here, probably one of the most amazing illustrations I have seen so far, although many artists may differ, but since I'm just a fanatic and also a person who wants to learn spare the criticism :)

Saffron Skies by ~azhrarn on deviantART

Anyway, I found this while looking for inspiration to work on my site. Believe it or not GIMP has been open for three days in my computer. I'll probably start working on it soon I already got most of the things I need although there are some brushes missing :(.

Hurray! Today's the big fight(boxing) of Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito! This really has shocked me quite much since both are potential fighters. Although I'm started watching boxing fights 2 years ago as a rookie I would really want to see Miguel Cotto vs Mayweather. Of course, there have been rumors that mayweather doesn't want to accept the fight because he could lose his spot if he loses.

Pity! I got my pack of heineken ready, although I shouldn't drink much lol I already going to my fifth bottle of the night... bah I don't think it matters anyway.

Cheers! (I hope Cotto wins!)

Oh boy, oh boy I seem to keep breaking promises! A month ago I made an entry talking about the re-design of RouteCafe's GIMP Blog. I don't know why whenever I sit as my desk and start brainstorming I can't just bring something decent, or maybe I'm just demanding too much of myself.

Nevertheless, I've already started to write a tutorial and there WILL be more coming. It's just that I'm working at three sites almost at the same time it's a tad hard for me to keep up and sometimes I need a long break for computers due to my brain burning. Now as for brushes and other resources I hope to keep finding nice ones around the web I hope they help me fully build the design.

Cheers!

I'm pretty much happy! My hard drive arrived today and got it installed. It was an easy install although I have 2GB DDR ram waiting for me in the post office, sadly I couldn't take out the rams because the section of receiving/delivering packages was closed.

Anyway, I installed openSuse. Very impressed on the install, probably the most user-friendly interface I have seen. Although I chose to use GNOME, I'm thinking of wiping it out for the heck of it and chose KDE 4.0, reasons are because the last time I used KDE (years ago) left me with such a bad experience that I never wanted to use it again. This means, after 1-3 years of not using KDE this will be my last install, if I like what I see then I'll give it a try, if not, well oh well, doesn't matter really.

Although I do miss OpenBox :)

Cheers!

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Right, I'm getting a new 160GB HD SATA which I'm going to use a "Pet Drive" for testing and checking out new linux distros. Of course I don't plan to to be formatting every time there is a new distro out there or a distro I haven't used, it's kind of a waste of time if you think about it.

Anyway, thanks a darkmatter I was (forced) to decide in using openSuse. In the end I might probably install Debian Etch, although Debian 5.0 is releasing this september. I don't know why I have always liked debian...

In other news, as you notice this post is pretty much random, sorry about that I just don't have anything to talk about that requires deep content. SO! In other news, GIMP 2.6 is coming closer than anyone would have expected, they might be releasing GIMP new version this year. I haven't played much with the SVN copy so I can't really give insights of what's being changed and what's new.

Cheers!

For the time being, I think I ought to at least post once a week, I know that this blog is almost non-existence at some point. Well, never mind about that for now.

Just a few weeks back I ordered a book called "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, it arrived this monday and I was really excited because, as geeky/nerdy as it sounds, regular expression is not something you learn on the fly. I normally script using PHP, although I want to extend my knowledge, it's very TIME CONSUMING just having one language to learn (PHP, in this case).

I have known/used PHP for around 2-3 years. Yet, it's not enough to actually "master" it. Of course, I'm not merely talking about syntax and learn more of the functions it provides, but also learning the design patterns. (Object Oriented Programming)

Anyway, the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" is really a new experience, the book itself boosts your confidence and motivation on learning. The author maintains the context both entertaining and very well detailed on how metacharacters and regular expressions works.

I know sometimes people from other linux forums steps here by occasion, and I'm expecting something near the lines "learn python, perl, ruby(RoR)" (web side scripting). Well, it's not a matter of choosing the language sadly, right now I just want to shape up my PHP skills before taking on another language.

Besides that, I also ordered Simply Javascript. Although there is a bit of problem for the package to reach here :( damn you!