KENNETH PORIO | the blog

Beginning November 2010, ASL will begin to test drive a new customized template, begin to test its integrity for the web, clean out any unnecessary widgets and bring out its new online presence. This will be the start of A Stellar Life 5.0 Alpha . ASL 4.0 is very intuitive, yet it doesn't give out the full potential ASL wants to convey. With my busy schedule, I could not regularly update this blog yet I do update my Twitter and Facebook accounts regularly. I'm planning to interconnect these social media to my Blogger and Tumblr blogs to widen up opportunities for me to improve in my blogging. I can even integrate my new YouTube page to begin my new personal vlog, and a link to my Himati vlog coming soon. I'm planning to do an image overhaul of ASL. Maybe change the logo, the color scheme, the font styles, and even its name and image ! I'm changing the image of my blog if possible to further widen my identity as a programmer, a Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) ad

Hello there, FOSS fans! I'm really enjoying my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" with all the desktop effects I can put in it. My PC is relatively old - A Pentium 4 2.40 GHz, with 512 MB RAM and nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card with 128 MB external graphics memory. But these requirements are just alright to install those desktop effects via Compiz Fusion. But with the right drivers (you have to separately install the proprietary nVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu), I can install Compiz and the wonders begin. Some of the desktop effects enabled on my PC are Desktop Wall (you can literally have separate "desktops" in most Linux distributions, add Desktop Wall or Desktop Cube for more excitement), Water Effects (reminds me of splashy effects in Mac OS X's Aqua interface), Scale (an effect similar to Mac OS X's Exposé), Window Switcher (similar to Windows Aero's Flip3D), Animation, Wobbly Windows (I like things "elastic"), and Transparenc

This is a story I made from my high school days. I am a little mouse. I live at a hole in a wall of my master’s house. In the morning I always like to sleep. In the evening, I wake up to find some food at my master’s trash. If I’m lucky, I could find some delicious leftovers that had been there after my master’s dinner. But if my master’s not around, I always go up hungry. One morning, I didn’t feel sleepy. So, I went outside my hole to look for a snack. I saw a delicious apple pie from the kitchen window. There I saw the nice view from outside my master’s house. There are plants, people, and things that brought up my curiosity. I thought I really want to go out so I can know what the outdoors look like. So, I opened the window and I went outside. Wow! What a nice view! I cannot imagine that this is the outside world! There were plants, people, and curious things. But, a wheeled thing is approaching me. I was very frightened, so I ran as fast as I can just to avoid that thing wi

Alright. I know my immediate  boss in the publication would love to see what are those Wi-Fi hot spots in downtown Davao so he could update those online services of ours if ever he's there. I know he's bothered from the uber slow connections in UPMin's Wireless Kiosk. Here's a list what I found from a source : Apo View Hotel Lobby A Whole Latte Love ACacia St. Juna Subd., Matina Basti's Brew, Victoria Plaza Blugre Cafe, Landco JP Laurel Bo's Coffee, Metro Lifestyle F. Torres St. Casa Leticia Hotel Camus St. Chowking Bolton Chowking Bajada (outside Victoria Plaza) Coffee Pod F. Torres St. Cups and Lowercase Business Lounge Torres St. Figaro, Chimes Mall Sales St. (Chimes Mall) Formula Pete's - Autoshop JP Laurel Gaisano Mall First Floor JP Laurel Grand Regal Hotel JP Laurel K1 F. Torres St. Karl's Koffee Korner, SM City Quimpo Boulevard Kasagingan Coffee Shop F. Torres St. Marco Polo Hotel Cor. CM Recto and Roxas Sts. Matina Town Sq

Many Roman Catholics become fanatic about statues of the Virgin Mary whenever one of them showed signs of "crying" or "weeping". Mary statues which bears some sort of "tears" of "water" or even "blood" make some very, very scared about what is happening. Many would say this sign indicates that the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, is "crying for the people of the earth" because of their "sins." She "cries bitterly" because mankind has not been kind to God. Skeptic scientists would refute this reason and point out that it is just some degradation of the material used in constructing these images of the Blessed Virgin. They say that the resins that bind the image's eyes were just naturally weathered. Or some would point to some water source that dripped into these statues. But would you really believe to the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is crying, in anguish and in pain, even today? Click th