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The Explorer comes from Series 2 .

I host a static landing page, www.iandexter.net , on Amazon S3 . I also have another static site, my resume ( resume.iandexter.net ), but this time, it is hosted on Google App Engine (GAE). Setting up a static site on GAE is a bit more involved than AWS S3. Still, it's fairly straightforward: Sign up for a GAE account. Download the latest SDK . Create a configuration file, app.yaml , similar to below: application: app-name version: 1 runtime: python api_version: 1 default_expiration: "30d" handlers: - url: / static_files: static/index.html upload: static/index.html - url: / static_dir: static - url: /.* static_files: static/404.html upload: static/404.html (It's a good idea to set up a 404 page similar to an Apache ErrorDocument .) Set up the directory where the static files will be located: ./app.yaml ./static ./static/index.html ./static/favicon.ico ./static/robots.txt ./static/404.html Test the site: /path/to/gae/sdk/dev_appserver.py app-...

(Okay, that was a bit cramped. :P) I'm now on Fedora 14 (Laughlin) . Finally. (Considering it was released last November 2010, I'm a bit late .) Just like my previous upgrades , this one was relatively pain-free, thanks to Preupgrade . ( One interesting change in 14 is OpenSCAP , which we'll be evaluating at work. It's always nice to find an * actual * implementation before diving in -- hopefully, it will be portable to the distro we're using.) So, an obligatory screenshot is in order:

(From Series 2. Comes with three faces. Marcel would be proud. :))

I recently moved this blog from the bare domain, iandexter.net , to blog.iandexter.net . One side-effect of the move was that www.iandexter.net no longer resolved to the bare domain. It also happened that I was testing Amazon Web Services, so I decided to host www on S3 (Simple Storage Service) , the intent being to set a placeholder and redirect my audience ( all three of them , heh) to the new blog URL. Setting up the site on S3 is indeed simple. I just added a new bucket, named it the same as the URL, uploaded two files ( index.html and favicon.ico ), set the correct permissions, and revised the CNAME. All it took was a few hours for the DNS change to propagate, et voila! I have my brand-spanking-new static site :

I found this cheesy (but cute) article on the NYTimes blog about summing up a relationship in six words. (Thanks, eclair !) Here are some examples: Loved her madly — then went mad. There's nothing sex can not fix. Note to self: avoid head cases. It's like xkcd alt text. The comments and user contributions ranged from funny to caustic to downright romantic . Allow me to pitch in: She courted him. Happy ever after. :) (The smiley doesn't count, of course. And, BTW, it's our anniversary. How long? See above.)

(Not from my collection, but... WANT !) More awesomesauce can be found here . ( I also have Tumblr , BTW.)

( Robot Sunday is back! Well, technically it's a Monday, but it's the thought that counts. {And Happy Valentine's Day to everyone, by the way.}) A new edition of the Mark Twain classic, " Huckleberry Finn ", was mired in controversy when the new publishers decided to edit out the "n-word". Some well-meaning (we hope) folks decided to take this further and replace the n-word with... robots . Yup, you heard it right .

Here he comes, foraging for food. Either that, or he's looking for Gundina. I didn't know that the Caveman (part of Series 1) can climb trees. *"Barok" is a classic Philippine komiks character . The popular comics strip has been made into movies as well.

As part of my ongoing LEGO minifigure-of-the-week series, I bring to you the Deep-Sea Diver , which is also part of Series 1 . (Pics taken with the Retro Camera Android app.)

URL shorteners, depending on how you look at it, are either a bane or boon for the web (and I'm not going into any of those, nope). Me, I see it as just another way to access resources, that's all. So I've started using my own URL shortener, 0.d2n.me , made possible by Google Short Links , available from the Google Apps Marketplace. With Short Links, I can set up my own domain (bare -- ie., no subdomains -- domains are currently not possible, though, so I had to add "0" to d2n.me {pronounced "Dito na me" and jejenese for "I'm here", heh. Cool domain, huh?}), and make links private. Basic stats (number of unique visits) are available as well. Short Links is also integrated to the Google Apps dashboard. What will I use this for? To create, er, shortcuts to the sites I visit, of course. A URL shortener on my own turf. How cool is that? (Remember what Al Pacino's character in "The Devil's Advocate" said about vanity ?...

Four years ago today, we welcomed Julian Emmanuel to the world. It was a beautiful day. Happy birthday, anak! Kuya Gab, Mom and Tatay love you very much.