Last weekend, I hiked at the Los Padres National Forest. This stretch of wilderness lies off the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is filled with lush forests and rugged mountains between 1000-1400 metres in height.
The trek to Pine Valley Camp was about 5 1/2 miles, which wasn’t too bad […]
I just read on MSNBC about the passing of one of the spiritual giants of the 20th century - Brother Roger of Taize. He founded an ecumenical religious community in the east of France out of the ashes of World War II, and it has attracted millions of young people seeking a spiritual […]
After a month of usage, I have an update to my previous evaluation of this mobile phone. I have since gotten used to the new interface, and have overcome some of my Nokia habits. Still, the handphone operation does fall short in some ways.
No Immediate Shortcut to writing an SMS. The […]
Today, I made a dumb boo-boo with my Windows notebook. I was locked out without an administrator password - how dumb is that?
I was preparing for some demos and was frustrated by some of the bugs that I had hit. The bad thing was that the server and engineers were located in Singapore, […]
Yesterday, I hiked on San Bruno mountain. It’s a 400m (1317 feet) high mountain at the northern tip of the Peninsula. It was a rather strange climb because the western half of the summit was enveloped in sea fog coming out of the Pacific, and the eastern half was all sunshine. It […]