Stinks and Sells II

Posted on June 7, 2008 at 9:59 pm | 4 Comments
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I thought it’s time I should make a second part of Stinks and Sells. Besides, since I’ve been stuck here at home for the past days, I really don’t have anything to tell you as evidence by the lack of updates. Yeah, whatever. This one looks long, but it is not. Haha.

Here we go…

Is Twitter stinking?
And will Plurk sell?
Our maid stinks
She’s messing with my appetite and it’s annoying, really.
Death Cab for Cutie sells
But DCFC’s “Plans” sells better than “Narrow Stairs”, IMO
The new Indiana Jones movie stinks
It’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my entire existence
The new favicon of Google stinks
Sorry, but I really hate it
I want to watch Kung Fu Panda
Alas, I don’t have moolah… it stinks
Going back to school stinks
And being a junior stinks too
‘Cause it means I’m getting older
SmallWorlds sells
Uh, have you heard of it?
My blog starts to stink
That’s because of the lack of updates
Dora the Negrang Lakwatsera still stinks
And I think Spongebob doesn’t stink anymore
(I realized it’s not for kids, if you know what I mean. Haha.)
This Grass Text Effect sells like donuts
I just wish it’s not complicated. Haha.
I’m running out of ideas to make this a bit longer…
And that simply stinks
I noticed that majority of the things I’ve mentioned stinks. Blah.
Uh, how come I can’t think of something that sells?
Pinoy Idol stinks
I can smell it without even watching a single episode of it
I’m betting Survivor Philippines will stink too
David Cook sells even better than donuts do (haha)
And I’m wondering when he’ll release his next album…
That will surely sell
Firefox 2 was a sold out
But Firefox 3 will surely beat its ancestor
Shaving stinks
Me doesn’t like it
I’m just glad PBB is almost over…
It’s one of the stinkiest TV shows evah!
I guess, I should do this regularly
Because I really enjoy doing it.
I hope this post will sell (haha)…
And that you are not stinking!

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Facts ‘Bout Me

Posted on April 13, 2008 at 12:01 pm | 16 Comments
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I decided to rewrite my “About Me” page. I started from scratch again and I come up with an seven-paragraph introduction to myself. I decided to post it here so that it’ll get the attention that it will need. The front page is always the best part where you can put stories that you want your audience to notice.

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During the year I started blogging, my answer to the question “What’s your ASL?” was 14/M/Pampanga. Now that almost four years have passed since I first encountered that question, my answer is still the same, except for the age part which you have to add to four (that’s equal to 18). But of course, giving you a two-digit number, a letter that stands for “male”, and the name of a province here in the Philippines is not enough for you to know me. So the purpose of rewriting my short description of myself is for you to visualize me better on your head. Feel free to make your own image of myself. I’ve also provided links to my previous posts, that you can freely read (minus those password protected entries) which can help you know more about myself.

I was born three days after Christmas in the year of 1989. December 28, 1989 was the start of my journey here on earth. Eighteen years later, I’m already 18 years old, obviously. Kidding aside, I think, I’ve achieved a lot of things but there are still many things to conquer. Currently, I’m a college student but I still have to learn how to love my course and I still think that college is synonymous to hell.

Reading books has been my main source of entertainment since sixth grade when I first read JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Since then, I have read more than 50 books which include the whole Harry Potter series, two of Dan Brown’s controversial books, reads by Mitch Albom which are all talking about death, and even books that are more disturbing like Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner which is my most favorite book, by the way.

Other forms of entertainment that I enjoy include watching American TV shows especially Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes and The Amazing Race, ridiculing incompetent teachers, sleeping, surfing the Internet, and most recently, listening to indie music by Feist, Death Cab for Cutie, Snow Patrol, The Postal Service, Hellogoodbye, Jack Johnson, and many more. As a matter of fact, because of my obsession to indie music, I named my iPod touch as Gibbard, in honor of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service’s singer: Ben Gibbard. Just visit my Last.fm account to know my listening patterns.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also love writing. I was actually the news editor of our official student publication for two consecutive years back in high school. But until now, I still don’t know how I was able to get that position because of my faulty grammar. I know, my grammar sucks. And if it were not because of Firefox’s spell checker feature, I would have committed lots of misspelled words. I need an editor, really. Haha. But despite all of those reasons I’ve mentioned, I’m really thankful for my adviser who trusted me. Writing news never gave me pleasure. You have to be specific with the facts and you can’t give your own points and using adjectives is a big no-no.

Now, I want to tell you what I’m not: I’m neither a singer nor a dancer (I suck at both). I’m not also a cellphone and SMS addict, I can leave even without a phone. I hate PE classes (I’m just glad that I will not wear my PE uniform ever). And oh as some of you might already know, I don’t have the ideal body weight (take a guess if I’m overweight or underweight) and I don’t look like an 18 year old student (I look younger… lol).

I’ve got more things to tell you but I guess, I’m already boring you. Just watch out for the next version of this introduction to myself to know more about me. But if you need something or you just want to leave your two cents, feel free to contact me.

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DanHellbound and Dre tagged me to post facts about myself. BTW, Mr. DanHellbound tagged me way back in December of last year. Dan says I should post seven facts, and Dre says that I should post eight. But obviously, I broke the rules. Lol. And oh, I didn’t make this post because of these memes. It’s just coincidental. Of course, everyone is invited to post random facts. Yeah, I’m tagging you everyone!

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Big Brother

Posted on October 13, 2007 at 9:43 am | 13 Comments
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Once you have entered any Big Brother house, I’m sure, your wouldn’t have any privacy and confidentiality, or if there is, only a little of the two. It’s sad isn’t? You can’t do things without the others knowing it, or should I say the whole world. It’s a breach to everyone’s right: the right to privacy. But then, to relinquish one’s privacy and confidentiality is a prerequisite or a mechanic or whatever you want to call it of the reality show. Besides, the housemates have consented to relinquish their privacy and confidentiality by joining the game.

Tomorrow, the gates, doors and windows of the Pinoy Big Brother house will open once again, and the cameras will start to roll and monitor every move of the housemates. And I don’t care. You know perfectly that I loathe the show. And let me state here that this post is not about the reality game show.

I used to abuse the unlimited Internet surfing my school offers for an exchange of a price of around Php 500.00 even though the only browser installed in the computers in school is the freaking IE and they don’t even have the latest version. Now, I’m wondering if their Windows are of legitimate copies. After surfing the Internet (in school), I clear the cache, browser history, cookies, and other whatnots for my privacy. I don’t want other students know what sites I visit. The last time I surfed the Internet in school, I’ve learned that they disabled access to the “Internet Options” unless you’re an administrator. And this really sucks.

This is another reason why Firefox is better than IE, in Firefox, you don’t need to be an administrator to delete all of those private data. When I’m on an Internet Cafe (which is very rare) — the Internet Cafes I have been to have Firefox installed — I just click Clear Private Data, and presto, no unwanted private data left.

Behind all of this, it’s really better browsing the Internet at home. No people shouting foul words at each other. No rude looking people reading whatever you are typing. No hassles of clearing your private data.

And this reminded me that if our phone line won’t get fixed anytime soon1, I have to buy a wireless router so I can browse the Internet in my room.

  1. We have a temporary line in our dinning room. [↩]

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Desktop Madness

Posted on October 9, 2007 at 10:01 am | 15 Comments
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It has been ages since I last did a meme here so I stole this one from Juice. I am really itching to do this meme despite that I have to sit a final exam later this afternoon at 3:00 pm. Oh, don’t worry, it’s just Theology, and really, I don’t have to memorize anything, I only need to read pages and pages of photocopied lectures.

Without any further ado, here it is…

As you can see, my wallpaper is from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I’ve been using this wallpaper for months and I’m tired of it. I tried to look for another wallpaper but nothing suited me. On the left side, you can see my desktop icons. I only put two columns of icons on my desktop to make it look neat. On the other side is the Windows Sidebar. I don’t usually use it but I like its functionality and features.

And now, my top five programs.

  1. Adobe Photoshop CS2 I use this program to manipulate my photos and create the images that I use for my layouts.
  2. Yahoo! Messenger Aside from texting, I use Y!M to get connected to my high school classmates. This also serves as my connection to my online friends and present blockmates.
  3. Mozilla Firefox Do I still need to explain what this program does?
  4. Notepad For encoding my layouts. Yes, I’m comfortable using Notepad to encode HTML, CSS and PHP.
  5. Limewire and uTorrent (tie) For downloading mp3 files and other whatnots.

Feel free to steal this meme. I’m now signing off to continue reviewing for my exam later.

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Safari on Windows

Posted on June 12, 2007 at 6:41 pm | 16 Comments
Filed under Digging Delicious • Internet Insanity

Before anything else, I just want to greet every Filipino out there a happy Independence Day. Seriously, I can’t feel the vibe. I haven’t received any text messages greeting me “a happy Independence Day” or read a blog entry about this very special day. Don’t tell me I got the wrong date.

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When I started surfing the internet today, the last day of my last summer vacation I came across with this headline on digg.com: Safari on Windows. I thought that Safari — the default web browser that comes along with every new Mac — was available for Windows before today. Obviously, I was wrong. But now, you can run it on your PC. Now we can tell if our blogs do break or not on Safari without buying a very expensive Mac. I tried mine and my site doesn’t look awkward or whatever. Safari renders my site almost like Firefox.

Pros:

  • Cool UI. I’ve read somewhere that it gives you the feel of how Safari looks like on a Mac. Sleek!
  • In my experience, almost all embedded Quicktime movies would make Firefox and IE7 crash on Windows Vista. Since Quicktime and Safari’s creator are just one, they blend smoothly.
  • I really like the Private Browsing1 feature of Safari. Best used for viewing porn sites. Haha.
  • Firefox greatest feature was also copied by Safari: tabbed browsing. But what’s original is that you can make an existing tab to open into a new window by just dragging it out and if you want to put all of your opened windows into just only one, you can merge them.
  • There’s also a built-in pop-up blocker. That’s self explanatory.
  • Text fields are resizable. No more unnecessary scrolling for text fields!
  • The built-in RSS is astounding, but that does not mean I’m leaving Google Reader.
  • The “Find” feature of Safari is better than Firefox. The highlighted text is easier to locate.

Cons:

  • Safari for Windows is still in beta, so it’s buggish.
  • You can only resize the window with the bottom-right corner of the window.
  • I think this one is only a bug, whenever you minimize a maximized window and you want to restore it, it wouldn’t go back to the maximized state, but to the restored down one.
  • There is no button on the toolbar that’ll open a new tab. The “New Tab” is buried under the “File” menu, so it would take you two clicks to open a new tab, alternatively, you can use Ctrl+T (the same shortcut for opening a new tab with the other browsers that support tabbed browsing). Moreover, the “+” button on the toolbar is misleading especially if you use have used Firefox for a while, because it only creates a new bookmark. Firefox, on the other hand, would create a new tab when you click the “+” button.
  • Other features in Firefox are also available (copied?) in Safari
  • If Firefox loves memory hogging, Safari loves it even more. It uses most of my memory. But since I’ve got 1GB of RAM2, it’s not really a big problem.
  • Only basic plugins (e.g:Java, Flash) are available.

Bottom Line

I’m sticking wtih Firefox, it is still the best browser in my opinion no matter what Mac says (that Safari is 1.6 times faster than Firefox in rendering HTML and executing JavaScript). With Firefox, you can do more things aside from visiting websites. But I’m not removing Safari from Snidget. I’m going to use it the layouts that I create are compatible with it and watching Quicktime movies. You can download Safari 3 Public Beta at the Apple website (that just got a new makeover).

Opera isn’t installed on Snidget yet, I might try it the next time I got a free time.

So I end this post with screen shots on how my site looks like on IE7, Safari and Firefox:

IE7
Internet Explorer 7.0

Safari
Safari

Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox

PS: I just want to say thanks to digg, without it, I wouldn’t see these kind of stuffs, or if I would even without digg, at a later time. Visit it and subscribe to make your vote count! Digg on!

Hey! Why am I blogging about an Apple product when my notebook is running in Windows Vista? Haha!

  1. Firefox 3 will have this feature. [↩]
  2. I haven’t blogged that I got a free 512 MB RAM. It was added on Snidget a week after we bought my notebook. [↩]

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