SMB Oktoberfest

Just heard from Karl that there was a riot at the closing concert of this year’s SMB Oktoberfest at the SM Megamall. Good thing they left right away when they realized things were getting out of hand. Another guy was fortunate enough to survive the chaos and live to tell the tale.

Microsoft fires blogger

Someone at MSCopy just lost his job for posting on his blog the idea that “even Microsoft wants G5s.” Is this at all reasonable? Microsoft owning some Apple G5s does not indicate anything negative, considering they also sell MS Office for the Mac.

New WaSP members

Simon Willison, Dave Shea and Ethan Marcotte are the most recent additions to the Web Standards Project’s team. A good day for web standards. Now everyone shout in unison, “tables for layout is stupid!”

Peyups Rock Enroll 2003 Photos

I just uploaded some photos I took at the Peyups Rock Enroll concert several months ago into my /photos section. You probably have seen them at photos.ph before, but I just feel like consolidating everything here on my site. Enjoy the photos, and leave your comments.

Photos section

My photos section is now up, but with only two albums available for now. Uses a lot of Smarty, and serialize().

Simple things for easy learning

Jason Kottke has some guidelines for focusing on learning, which he learned in diversity training. Quite simple things if you think about it, yet can be very helpful reminders for maintaining healthy relationships.

Dino Ignacio in The Philippine Star

Famous Filipino artist/designer Dino Ignacio was featured yesterday in an article/interview in The Philippine Star. He is known for his Bert is Evil! site (closed down, use this mirror link instead), and recently for his collaboration with Fil–Am stand–up comic Rex Navarrete in the Maritess vs The Superfriends flash animation. By the way, the list [...]

A List Apart Reloaded

Jeffrey Zeldman’s A List Apart is now open after a refreshing redesign. Three new articles are featured for the current issue, two of which deals with CSS and images, and the third is based on a PHP script that allows for random image rotation, a topic I mentioned before. If you want an image rotator [...]

GetFree

GetFree is an open–source script that allows easy downloading and installation of Mozilla Firebird 0.7, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3, OpenOffice.org 1.1 and Gaim 0.71. Very useful for dial–up users, as it allows pause/resume of downloads. A very good way for showcasing open–source applications indeed!

Don’t you dare smoke!

Smoking is bad. Raul Montifar is an award–winning Filipino photographer, with works that have been recognized internationally. Also worthy of mention is Norman Montifar’s work, which I came across when I queried google for larawan.

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