Last week was the Mid-Autmn Festival or Lantern Festival (Vietnamese: Tet Trung Thu). One of my favorite things to eat is the Moon Cake and they're only available during festival time. It's ubiquitous and can be thought of as the Asian fruitcake, except it tastes much better.

It's filled with anything from durian paste to mung bean paste or red bean paste or mixed candied nuts & fruits or lotus seed or any other types of filling. Sometimes there's a salted duck egg's yolk inside and sometimes not. Don't let the salted duck egg yolk put you off them; if you get a chance, try some with some hot tea... they're really good!

I've just installed Linux Mint, a variant of Linux based on Ubuntu on my Dell XPS M1330 notebook. Linux Mint looks great. The developer of this distro is right... it looks quite elegant. I'm keeping Vista (piece of crap) as my backup since that's what the notebook came with when I got it last year. I thought about installing Windows XP as the main OS but decided why not try Linux after a hiatus and see what happens.

One of the first thing I noticed was that the Firefox browser is horrendous under Linux. It's really buggy and seems to crash a lot. So I opted for the Opera browser and as of now it seems to be working very. I like it a lot better so far. I'll keep everyone posted on my thoughts on how Linux Mint works as my main OS for this notebook.

Thank god for a long weekend. The recent heat has made me so tired lately so I really need this break. I'm trying to make this post on an iPhone so let's see how this works. So far typing on this thing is not easy at all. I think that even after some time it would still be difficult.

I've never understood Twitter. More than that, I don't understand how so many media outlets jumped on this bandwagon. I've never used the site but I have looked at it out of curiosity. My take on it is that it's a "microblogging" site that limits posts to 140 characters. Don't you just love the way they come up with these new terms?

In any case, when you post to Twitter, you're "Tweeting" and your post is a "Tweet". Not a twat or twit, but a tweet. I know, I know, it doesn't make any sense but I suppose I know why. A twit is a silly or foolish person, so posts on Twitter can't be a twit. A twat is... well, we all know where that's going. So tweet it is I guess. By the way, I just don't think it masculine for guys to admit to "tweeting." But hey... that's just me.

In any case, I guess my hatred of Twitter is based upon the idea that I'm reading someone's post on a blog somewhere. Then they'll say, "Follow this story on Twitter!" Or when I'm watching say CNN... "Follow this breaking story on Twitter!" And invariably my question is why? I read someone's blog because I want to read their blog. I don't want to go to another site to continue reading about a particular post, be it updates or whatever. Same with watching TV. I watch the news to get the news. By making that choice, I've already decided not to go online for the news, which I do all the time. Given that, why would I choose to follow a TV news story on a whole new site? I just don't get it.

But hope is near for the death of Twitter. And I'll be one of the first to celebrate it. Apparently, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is quitting Twitter. The only reason this actually even made news is that he is apparently known for being into social networking and what not. I know some of this is tongue in cheek, but I say about fucking time! Read more about it on CNet:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10292180-71.html