In the coming weeks or months I will be posting lesser than usual due to the ginormous lists of things that I need to devote my mind and body too. They’re all pretty exciting though.
1. I will be designing a hardbound book containing three years worth of materials for PWC of Davao.
2. In addition to learning the technical management aspect of KOHA, I have to learn how every function from the end user perspective, since the librarians are too lazy to learn it themselves. Of course I can let management buy Follet, a company that seems to be run under the mantra of “A fool and his money is easily parted”, since their software is drastically overpriced while good free alternative exists. And a fool I am not.
3. I am working on my top secret website that might go into alpha February, private beta in April, public beta October. Hopefully
4. I am trying to develop a flash game for a JayisGames competition. Of which I am trying to recruit a good Flash actionscripter. The game design is solid and workable. I need people to finish it in time. Here is a screenshot of a work in progress:
5. I have to finish my wedding website which is about three months late now. :<
6. Start building the intranet site for PWC which will become a model for my ambitious plan for the internet site.
7. Amidst all this, my day job of being a MIS Department continues.
I have a feeling I won’t survive this list so if If you don’t hear from me again then I will either be dead or worse… behind schedule.
Love sometimes feel artificially grafted.
Life isn’t fair, we’re just presumptuous.
Well, last week I’ve decided to migrate to Wordpress 2.3.1 on a whim. I was too lazy to test it locally so I just crossed my fingers and eyes and pressed the update button.
I never knew the statistics regarding the effectiveness of crossing one’s finger but I’d imagine it being unfavorable since the whole blog went kaboosh. Database handles were changed so a couple of plugins of the Category kind went afoul like ants losing the scent of their trail. I also cannot post anything as well as use my tags plugin since the new version already had one. So after that I got busy with a lot of things but last night I finally manage to conjure some kind of time paradox and froze time long enough to fix my blog.
I am happy to report (to myself) that its all now good. I’ve updated plugins and added new ones (Gotta Catch Em’ All). And it will be business as usual, meaning sporadic posts about irrelevant topics on a Design and Arts blog. God have mercy.
As if I’m not here…
City of no answers…
This movie is raping my brain…
Everything all the time…
exceeding expectations…
I’m a reasonable man, get off my case
Sometimes I think life itself is conspiring to keep me from posting regularly in this blog. Innumerable are the times I have attempted to write about something of interest but fortitude dissipated as small interruptions proved fatal to its existence. Sometimes its as rational as household chores that have been postponed to the point of obsolescence, well almost. But oftentimes its as minute as quality of the air at that exact moment or the fealty of my keyboard in which it practices subterfuge by producing ants in its crevices or tilting sideways when keys are recessed. The buggers wish to cut their captain’s throat. Mutiny in the desktop!
Being a man of solutions I have been slowly but surely eliminating the blockades to the regularity of my blogging updates that have been mushrooming around me. I have installed an Internet connection at my home. In the times before now, all manner of jacking to the Matrix has been through the conduit of work and our family’s Internet cafe. And being a man of maximum benefits I had the modem deployed at my father’s office nearby. So I had to hang networking cables and figure out why we cannot share the connection. This lasted several excruciating days but that memory has now been filed in the recesses of my cranium.
And being a man in love with the underdog mentality. Rather than using a 17 inch monitor, I took an unused 15 inch monitor from the aforementioned cafe when I assembled our PC. And when doing anything useful with a 15 inch monitor you would wish you had a jackhammer aimed straight at your monitor. So I had to hunt down a second hand monitor preferably 19 inch and dirt cheap.
A trip to the local surplus shop yielded an old parchment map and an X-mark . Revealed by a limp man named Junjun (j’oon,joon). He proceeded to scintillate me with the words Samsung, 19 inch, and P2,500. Fast forward two day later. I came to the place right behind the constable’s office (NBI) where a derelict neighborhood hides an even more derelict house. Devoid of light and threatening to collapse any moment, the place was atmospherically sinister not unlike a drug pusher’s den. We climbed upstairs with Jun leading by the lighter’s glow we came to his room and I proceeded to check the prized treasure. It was great, save for a few tint scratches that i can live with. Deal. But first I had to go Afhats where the wife’s cousin Benedict Don Sy is celebrating his birthday. And it was one of those moments where I wished I had a Blog Guardian Angel to smack my head and tell me to take a picture. After that, my dad-in-law, ever gracious, agreed to stop by NBI to get the monitor.
Now, I have a large monitor, Internet connection at home, state of the art PC, the art is in a sorry state. (512 mb ram, 128 Video Card, Athlon XP), nice headphones for the Pinback, Radiohead, and 50 cent tunes. All thats needed to procure is a nice executive chair worth no less than P3000. 
and a large working desk.
But first, I have to do something with the icky keyboard and the ants running around the computer table.
See these guys? Their sole mission is to ruin my productivity.
I admit I watched the 1st episode of Heroes a long time ago but decided not to finish it. Not because of quality issues but because i was in the middle of Lost and I didn’t need another timesucker. But after season 1, Lost seems to meander and became less and less interesting. And I was off the clutch of that mystery island thriller.
We moved to our new house a month ago and having nothing to do, we headed off to the local DVD store and purchased a couple of DVD compilation, she got a Korean Love stories DVD and I got the Heroes Season1. We first watched a film in her DVD and after that we tried Heroes. Needless to say, Heroes hasn’t left the DVD player since then. We watch it every night now and i have a backlog of design jobs sitting in my drive. The clients will not be pleased, I just hope they’re Heroes’ fans.
Here are my observation on the TV series:
1. The casting for the most part works. Peter, Nathan, Claire, Sylar, and especially Hiro. the invisible man reminds me of that icky guy in Notting Hill, Hugh Grants roomie and thats strangely works too.
2. Mohindar took me some time to warm up to, as his character seemed to be overdramatic and overly chatty. The mindreading cop though gets on my nerves, the character is excruciatingly lame, and his back story is uninteresting. Nikki/Jessica was good but the whole shebang is getting a bit overplayed. I am just waiting for her family to go Incredibles and shit.
3. The pacing is great. the plot moves swiftly and the focus switches between the characters enough that nobody is shorthanded.
4. Claire’s expression on her face when she is happy/sad/flirty/listening is very convincing.
5. Sylar is creepy and someone we love to hate.
6. Plot holes are beginning to show. Forgivable but its something I hope I wont see more of.
7. The words narrated at the end/beginning of episode are ponderous and insightful.
8. the episode title are sometimes rendered in the environment. I would love for that little thing to be done each episode.
9. Lastly, I want Simone’s afro back!
Note: this post will be updated as I watch more episodes.
Speaking about TV shows…… MAD TV rocks, SNL sucks
Just a bunch of things to let you know I’m alive and yes, Im playing the Im-too-busy-blog card again. But with the internet connection at home knocked out by a freak accident involving a crane, posts and a really stupid driver, some dire consequences have arisen, one that bears heavily and will require monetary sacrifices. So excuse me, for feeling not too upbeat. Well, anyway on to the task at hand:
1. I’ve revisited my least favorite Radiohead album post Pablo Honey, Amnesiac. And surprise, surprise. its my favorite now.
2. my Eden review post is about 20% done, meaning all the pictures have been uploaded. All thats left is, to write past the introduction.
3. I have done Photoshop concepts of my impending redesign (call me Fickle Me Elmo). I love white too much.
4. watch out for my 2nd behind the design article.
5. I am itching to watch NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, cause Lions for Lambs sucks according to the Internetz, and believe what the Internetz tells you.
“The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”
Last words of a great and popular Bittorrent tracker site. For those not involved in the back alleys of the internet, torrent is a popular peer to peer file sharing technology. It is primarily used in transferring pirated software, music, movies and other digital properties.
There are a dime a dozen torrent trackers, what Demonoid got right is its well maintained database and its invite only membership scheme that keeps things organized. You can find everything from some obscure LAN Instant messaging software to the hottest games. Everyone I know loved Demonoid and was the torrent source of choice. But like Piratebay, Oink or even Napster, that came before Demonoid, someone else will always rise up. Mininova, are you up for it?
The pirate king is dead! Long live the pirate king!
note: Pirate at your own risk.
