Yesterday I decided to give in and upgrade to (the very strangely and unfortunately named) Oneriric Ocelot aka Ubuntu 11.10, from 10.10. Unlike my last upgrade (10.04 to 10.10), this wasn't nearly as pleasant, because other than changing a whole lot of things I had already gotten used to and therefore placing a learning curve where I didn't want one, it took 6 hours instead of the 2 it took the last time!

Imagine what would happen if you gave a talented programmer with a strong imagination and intermediate social skills a ton of money. That's what I think of Mark Zuckerberg and the resulting product, Facebook. And although that might sound harsh, I'd also like to add that I empathize many times with him and his occasional attempts to treat people like they were just data - a common feeling a programmer gets whenever he deals with rows and rows of user submitted personal details.

It didn't take long for me to determine what CMS the government was using to run its 'Official Gazette' on gov.ph.

Stats.wordpress.com is one of the features used by Wordpress.com, a free blogging platform. When you load the site, Chrome (the browser I'm using), displays very quickly, as part of the loading process, the servers where files are being retrieved. The above screenshot happens just a quick half second before the site fully loads, so when I caught it the first time I was ready to press the printscreen button when I re-loaded it a second time.

First of all, let me tell you I've never been excited about anything in a long time. 4 years ago, I made a post on my old blog re how I thought Google would eventually release their own OS. Obviously that didn't happen immediately, but I never gave up on the idea because it always made sense to me that they should. They certainly have the resources plus the following to get it going, and after 4 years they've developed even more web apps that a centralized app, such as an os, just to connect to these would make sense.

And to me, that's what it's all about. Which surprises me that so much news about Google's OS has it pitted against Microsoft, which is beside the point if not completely outside it altogether.