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I Run Portable On My Dude

Okay I think I’ve been abandoning the blog for too long with zero activity to boot. Basically, a case of neglect.

Well, I was busy with work lately, and now I’m living at a house with two other housemates. Apart from that, nothing much really. Or is it?

Hmm, I might want to consider putting very little activity over here though, and concentrate on my artistry skills… on the phone since it was what made me buy i in the first place. I can’t have enough time on the laptop, heh. Good thing the Chinese New Year is going to give me a good breather… For only two days, though. But still nice nevertheless.

Honoo out.

2012: 01/22
CATEGORY: Random rantings
TAGS: random
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Welcome to the… Nokia N Nine Hundred.

It’s been a while… If anyone cares.

So hey. I’m typing this via the WordPress client as I speak.

Last Thursday I decided to go and get this phone of my dreams: the Nokia N900.

You read it right. It’s not an iPhone, it’s not an Android. Not a Samsung, not an HTC either. Oh well. Screw the fads.

To put it simply, this N900 is not what I’d call “just a phone.” It’s like taking my laptop, paint it black, strip the heavy things and add phone functions into it, and lastly scale it down to my palm’s size.

That’s what I like about it.

Or, more like, it was thanks to the possibility of making the N900 the mini equivalent of what you’d call a PC installed with a Wacom Cintix tablet thanks to its resistive touchscreen. Though I have been too busy to even doodle…

I can practically handle this like I would with my laptop. Only on a smaller scale… With maximum portability and battery life.

Oh yeah baby.

Me out, approaching a train station as I type. Pics, screenshots later I hope.

2011: 08/21
CATEGORY: Techie Stuff and Misc
TAGS: Nokia
n900
maemo
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Review: MyPaint 0.9.1

Welcome to MyPaint

Man, how long has it been since I actually wrote a blog post? And one like this, a review of all things?

As some of you who know me might have known, I am currently running Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” on my laptop.

2011: 06/11
CATEGORY: Artworks
Techie Stuff and Misc
TAGS: image editor
linux
mypaint
open source
painting program
tablet
ubuntu
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Random: Twintailed, Blond, Tsundere?

Apparently still one of my worst weakness to date. Pic related. Also, picture above is just as a decoration. Nice pic anyway though.

2011: 01/10
CATEGORY: Artworks
Random rantings
TAGS: blond
character design
tsundere
twintail
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Random Rant: I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DRAW!

There are times I refuse to admit that I don’t know something, and will take some time before I admit it just in case I can counter that state of "unknowingness" myself.

2010: 11/10
CATEGORY: Artworks
Random rantings
TAGS: artblock
I WANT TO DRAW ARGH
no idea
rant
writer's block
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Random: Farewell “Portable Dude,” Enter “Portable Dude Mk. II”

... Honestly, I have no idea what kind of "intelligent caption" I want to put here LOL.

Goodbye, my old machine… and why hello there Portable Mk II, now you’re commissioned, hoping to have a good time in service with you alongside me.

2010: 11/01
CATEGORY: Random rantings
Techie Stuff and Misc
TAGS: 4520
acer
asus
i5
i7
timeline x
ubuntu
x42j
x42jr
x42jr-vx141v
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Ubuntu: Audacious 2.x manual-paste IRC announcer script

... Don't mind my crude, ugly use of the notify-send utility.

I use IRC quite frequently, and having the IRC now playing announcer script in XChat is what I can’t miss out on using. However, when circumstances disallow me from using an IRC client and I had to settle for a web-based IRC client instead… well, I don’t quite like it when I can’t get the announcer into good use. Read more