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… is the merriam-webster online word of the year 2007
w00t!

from the pages of crave at c|net uk: top 10 terrible tech products
Vista
Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor’s reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that [...]

i got my free ubuntu cds from canonical the other day. yey!

and stickers too! four of them.
thanks to shipit.
the strange thing is that the mail came from the netherlands. i was expecting to get it from the philippines or at the least — asia. i guess canonical doesn’t have partners here yet.
i can be. (hint [...]

i got this letter from the pilipinas anti-piracy team (papt) just last week. i’m reproducing the content here:
october 17, 2007
mr. noel
it consultant
subject: alert on copyright infringement handling

reference: republic act 8293 — intellectual property code of the philippines
we have obtained evidence proving that recently there is widespread selling of pirated products in such forms as cd, [...]

it took some time but i was able to upgrade from ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 over the internet.

it was pretty slow at the start with all the downloads happening at the same time but things went pretty well in the end. although i would not recommend the network upgrade path if your internet connection is [...]