If you are looking for an excellent Gnome-based FTP client for Ubuntu, take a close look at the Filezilla, a free, open-source, GNU General Public License FTP client software.
FileZilla is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client, with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
Filezilla has both client and server [...]
Being stuck in a plane on a tarmac is not a pleasant experience. Eleven hours on the tarmac is a very long time. This happened to me. Not once, but twice. Well, my ordeal was not quite eleven hours, but you’ll get my drift. The first experience was on a fully loaded international flight. The [...]
A pilot conducting a pre-flight check found a body curled up inside British Airways’ front landing gear. Authorities believe the person was a stowaway. Can anyone really survive a trans-atlantic flight inside a plane’s landing gear? If the cold won’t kill you, the lack of oxygen will probably do you, especially for a 6 to [...]
Here’s a good read regardless of age.
To a budget conscious individual, magazine subscriptions are usually the first to go when it comes to cost cutting. It goes first before cable TV, lunches, entertainment, cellular phones or the DSL. Unless you have a valid business reason to subscribe to magazines, most readers nowadays wouldn’t think twice about cancelling a magazine subscription.
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I just got a letter from United Airlines stating my Mileage Plus miles are expiring “unless I act now.” It sounds like every bit of dirty tactic to get me to spend more. Ok, here’s the deal. If I book a flight at United.com of $150 or more before February 28, 2006, I get to [...]
I found an unopened Pisco bottle in the kitchen the other tonight. It was a gift given to us by a friend who went to Peru a year ago. The bottle has been sitting in basket for many months. After seeing the bottle, I was inspired to try my first South American cocktail called “Pisco [...]
After a month of stay in the Philippines, I’ve thought about how things can be improved in the old country starting with traffic. One major cause of traffic on several narrow streets in the Philippines are the increasing number of “trisikads” on local streets. To those not familiar with trisikads, it’s a bicycle with a [...]
I just got home tonight after 13 hours of flight from Manila to San Francisco. Of course, it does not include the 4 hour layover in Manila and the one hour flight from Iloilo to Manila. It’s been a long day. As customary, the passengers cheered and clapped as PR104 landed in San Francisco. An [...]
I had an opportunity to attend a reunion committee meeting for our 25th anniversary for the USA High School class of 1981. Boy, I feel so old. The monthly meeting was set at Yvonne Garcia-Valencia’s house in Iloilo City.
It was truly a delight seeing classmates from way back. It has been 25 years since [...]