A Vintage Watercolor Painting from Paris
I bought this watercolour painting at the turn of the millenium (a vintage as of today) by a famous Val d’Oise fairs award-winning…
Veneraldo Apelo (Life in the Walled City)
(Dec. 1988) A strong and cool December breeze sung its way from the eastern wall of Intramuros to Gate 2 of the institute,…
How to reverse engineer the human brain?
First of all, in order to successfully create an artificial human brain, we need to gather some facts on what are the components of our brains and how those parts ticks and interacts with each other.
Diary of an MPPT Charge Controller
September 29, 2016 — St. Louis, MissouriThe first thing I felt was a spark — literally. A technician’s probe touched my leads, and suddenly, HEX110 surged through my silicon…
Unwinding Summer Weekend.
My take on Bread’s 1970 classic, Baby I’m A Want You. (No Intended Copyright Infringement)
The Solar Rush in the Philippines
Due to the war in the Middle East, there has been a tremendous oil crisis everywhere, including the Philippines, where around 80% of…
Newton’s Divided Difference Interpolation Using HP-15c
HP-15c’s built-in matrix feature can greatly save time and decrease the number of lines when incorporated in a numerical analysis program. I used…
HP-15C, The Calculator That Was Ahead Of Its Time.
RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programmable calculators from HP, such as the Voyager series HP-11C and HP-15C, have been around since the early 80’s. It was…
Software development meets dad’s joke
My first attempt to write a joke. Please go easy on me. While installing and researching for the awesome Aerospike database, I concocted…
GCP and GKE Journey
Quite recently, my work entailed me to use GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Kubernetes (K8S). After using AWS for a long time, its…
Installing Jenkins on FreeBSD
Jenkins installation is quite trivial on FreeBSD. All you have to do is issue a package install command and you’re done with a…
Revisiting Altivec
After painfully restoring my old Mac Power Book G4 from Snow Leopard to Debian Linux (this deserves another blog topic of its own),…
The Little Black Hen And Other Stories
The Little Black Hen And Other Stories My attempt to write a story within a story within a story within a story….. (nested…