Blog changes

I have made some changes to my blog. FYI, http://www.cawanpink.net no longer contains my blog posts. Instead it will display a collection of posts from all over the place. It's what I do most these days, microblog. I post pics, I curse at someone :P, I elevate at the awesomeness of linux, you get the picture. Usually it's kinda short update. So I guess it's better that way than have the visitors look to all over the places (Twitter, Mobypicture, Identi.ca, etc) to get latest updates from me.

Sure, if I have more than 140 characters to say, I'll blog in http://blog.cawanpink.net. RSS feed also changes. A couple of planets I know of subscribing from my blog, please use http://blog.cawanpink.net/rss.xml from now on. Else you're going to get a black hole.

But those who's interested to subscribe to my collection of life updates (you stalker crazy freakzzz), it's http://www.cawanpink.net/rss

Thanks. Talk to you later.

Thinking of changing the blog template

Well coz it's been a while since I really blog these days. This is especially due to the existence of Facebook and Identica/Twitter. I used to blog alot but now any personal post I no longer post it here, only in Facebook. What to do with this blog? It's like a place where I throw code snippets stuff now and then, which primarily is for me, to grab later on.

Twitter is much faster to post, as I don't have to put in so much thought to express myself. It's so much easier to post short notices and pics these days using Twitter. Writing these 2 paragraphs is not easy, I really have to think to compose the words! The days when they are very fluid are over now. I'm getting old.

You know, one other thing that's been keeping me real slow in updating the blog is I kinda have this feeling that I don't have the freedom to write as much as in the old days. Maybe because I'm well aware of the audience of this blog now or maybe I don't have to ramble on as much anymore. See, old age catching up. Arrghh!!

git git git!

Create repo
mkdir mygit
cd mygit
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'initial commit'

Checkout repo
cd mygit
git clone url myrepo

Create branch
git branch -a
git checkout -b branchtoworkon origin/existingbranch or git checkout existingbranch
git branch branchtoworkon
git checkout branchtoworkon

Push branch
git push origin branchtoworkon

Create tag
git tag -l
git tag 1.0

Push tag
git push origin 1.0

Delete branch/tag
git tag -d 1.0
git branch -d branchtoworkon
git push origin :branchtoworkon

KDE desktop - ick!

I hate it. No matter how much I tried to get used to it, it's just not working for me. It installed a horde of these K apps that I don't really like. This is the last time I ever will try KDE. LXDE is better, maybe Fluxbox even better who knows. I'm going to try that one after this.

Now that it's semester break again - my attention turns to books

Empress Orchid arrived at the most appropriate time. Perfect! By the way, I can't believe I didn't buy a single book in 2009. What a hectic life I had.

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I bought The Lovely Bone earlier this year coz I've been hearing people raved and raved about how good it was. It's an old book but good ones should have the same effect the very first time you read it. I'm losing touch with my inner nerdness - heh! I used ti visit bookstore often and I used to know what books were good and came well recommended. And mind you I don't read chicklit except for Cecilia Ahern's masterpieces ok.

I bet you don't know what chicklit is. It's short for chicks' literature. Books that fall into that category include the Shopaholic series, Devil Wears Prada, Bridget Jones Diary (yes people those are books before they are moviezzz). They're usually very light read, useful when you're in stress and need a quick pages of relief during lunch breaks. But I don't do that. It's just what I imagine the books for. I couldn't get myself to finish one of those (except for Ms. Ahern's) at any given time. And I won't buy any chicklits anymore, not ever (except for Ms. Ahern's).

I'm kind of an old soul. I think that's why I don't get chicklits. People are mystified why I like History channel so much. Or Discovery or NG, you get the idea. I don't watch Astro Ria that much, I think it's purely entertainment, not much substance there. But I don't watch much news channel either, as I don't like war and politics. Music wise, I like standards. Yes I do think it's odd but I like those, especially the lyrics in those times. See? Old soul :)

Been such a looooooooooooooong time since I updated my blog. This felt good.