By albertus,on January 3rd,2012% It’s been quite a while since I last posted something in this blog. It’s 2012 now and it feels good. A New Year means new things to do. There are things that I plan to do in the coming months that may involve a lot of hard work. Things have been boring so I have . . . →Read More:2012 Is Here By albertus,on June 14th,2011% Books,especially technical ones,easily get obsolete within a short period of time. I have several technical books that have recently become obsolete,one of which got obsolete in only three years. This has made me purchase the new editions of some of these books. There are times when the new editions have significant changes. . . . →Read More:Obsolete Books By albertus,on November 23rd,2010% Everyone seems to be looking for good bargains after Thanksgiving. There are some who are already lined up at the stores that have sale items on Friday. I’m just wondering if Apple products are going to be on sale as well. At least OWC might have some Apple items on sale. From Apple comes a . . . →Read More:The Holidays Are Coming By albertus,on August 11th,2010% Obviously,computers permeate our lives in many ways through the gadgets and machines that we use everyday. The Internet has also linked these computers in such a way that a vast amount of information can now be found flowing almost anywhere in the world. I saw the revolution and evolution of computer technology from the . . . →Read More:Computer Technology and Life By albertus,on August 11th,2010% I migrated http://albertusunbound.wordpress.com/ to http://www.albertus.org/ today because I wanted more control over the site. It wasn’t too difficult to migrate and setup WordPress on another server since I read the manual. WordPress is suitable for my purposes at this moment. If I need to migrate to something else like Drupal,I’ll just have to . . . →Read More:New Blog Site By albertus,on April 7th,2010% It’s been a few days since the iPad was released to the public,generating a lot of buzz in the press and on the Internet. There’s even one YouTube video of some guys smashing an iPad,presumably the cheapest model. I visited our neighborhood Apple Store in the Galleria Mall and tried it out. I . . . →Read More:The iPad Is Unleashed By albertus,on February 6th,2010% I am currently listening to the original motion picture score of Star Wars:The Empire Strikes Back (Episode 5). This is the digitally remastered special edition 2-CD set. Compared to the 1-disc Polydor CD release back in the late 80′s,the sound quality of this set is superb. Well,another soundtrack now goes to my . . . →Read More:Star Wars:The Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack By albertus,on January 31st,2010% I was looking for a decent portable CD player to replace my old Sony Discman D-F411. Coupled with a pair of decent headphones like the Sennheiser PX 200,the sound quality was pretty good. I use the portable CD player to sample CDs and to compare CD sound quality to digitally compressed audio (MP3s,AACs). . . . →Read More:Searching for Portable CD Players (aka Discman) By albertus,on January 25th,2010% It’s been awhile since I posted something on this blog. I’ve been busy with other things,including the launch of a site called Linux Unbound. The new year started with the purchase of a few books such as “Classic Shell Scripting”,“Flex and Bison”,“Sed and Awk”,and “The Illustrated Network”. I am trying to . . . →Read More:Posting Again By albertus,on July 21st,2009% There has been an announcement that Paramount is releasing a 5-disc Blu-ray set of all the Star Trek:The Next Generation movies this Fall. This is our chance to see the movies in 1080p resolution and HD audio. I am wondering now when are they releasing the Next Generation series on Blu-ray like they did with . . . →Read More:Star Trek:The Next Generation Movies On Blu-ray | |