Although I use Fedora on my laptop, Ubuntu has always been my recommendation for those who want to try Linux. A friend told me that he switched from KDE and shared tales of how it greatly improved. This led me to randomly blurt out to another friend to try out Kubuntu.

To cut the story short, I made the switch from XFCE to KDE too. It’s quite responsive on my aging laptop and their compositing is surprisingly easy on resources.

Installation is easy (for Red Hat, Fedora and other derivatives):

# yum -y groupinstall KDE

I scored on an 80GB iPod Classic at the Microwarehouse Sale. It replaced my retired 60GB iPod Photo. I happened to be at Fully Booked during the Christmas rush and got this fancy, cheesy skin for that MP3 player with a hard disk.

It comes with a screen protector and the sticker will not stain if you remove it (3M). That should reduce the scratches that it’ll get, unlike what happened to the previous iPod that was badly battered. If only the skin can save it from dents as well.

Damage was around P600. They also have skins for the iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Video and laptop lids. I wanted to get one for my dear old laptop but the Google Code sticker and scary battle scar are sentimental to me (at P1,300, I didn’t have extra cash to burn that time too).

I like the brown and mossy tone. Makes it look like a Zune. After putting it on, I suddenly got this tiny fascination with whales.

Have you seen Domo Nom Nom? You should. You can vote for it as the most creative use of Tumblr over here. I bet you’ll agree with me that it’s obviously a given fact and the truth beyond explanation of the most honest human being that *it is* the most creative use of Tumblr.

Congratulations Migs!! Pa-burger ka pagkatapos ha?