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SMB Oktoberfest

Published in the wee hours of October 31, 2003

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.

1 Reply· 2003.10.31

Microsoft fires blogger

Published terribly early in the morning of October 30, 2003

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.

· 2003.10.30

New WaSP members

Published terribly early in the morning of October 30, 2003

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!”

· 2003.10.30

Peyups Rock Enroll 2003 Photos

Published terribly early in the morning of October 30, 2003

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.

· 2003.10.30

Photos section

Published in the late afternoon of October 27, 2003

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

1 Reply· 2003.10.27

Simple things for easy learning

Published terribly early in the morning of October 25, 2003

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.

· 2003.10.25

Dino Ignacio in The Philippine Star

Published in the wee hours of October 25, 2003

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 of judges for this year’s Philippine Web Awards is now available, and includes several famous international designers like Carole Guevin of netdiver.net fame, and Digital Web Magazine’s Nick Finck. Also in the list is Philweavers co–founder Drew Europeo, who is one of the members of the halfproject team.

1 Reply· 2003.10.25

A List Apart Reloaded

Published in the wee hours of October 23, 2003

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 that allows for alternate/title text, you should consider my home–brewed solution.

· 2003.10.23

GetFree

Published mid-afternoon of October 21, 2003

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!

· 2003.10.21

Don’t you dare smoke!

Published terribly early in the morning of October 21, 2003

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.

· 2003.10.21

Why do people blog?

Published in the wee hours of October 20, 2003

What are the reasons people publish on the web using weblogs? Or in general, what are the justifications for self–publishing? I had my own answers a year ago, but occasionally I’m left wondering if running your own site is really worth the time and expense. This post on “always write” somehow justifies it for people who enjoy writing, yet do something else for a living. (Via emese’s photo blog)

3 Replies· 2003.10.20

The usual “catching up”

Published terribly early in the morning of October 18, 2003

Some things are better done in unordered lists.
(Inspired by Evan William’s two posts.)

• OpenOffice.Org 1.1 released, turns three!
• Mozilla 1.5 + Firebird 0.7 + Thunderbird 0.3

Firebird is the browser you’ve been looking for all your life, but you were looking for it in the wrong box. Just download the file and try it! For more information on this great browser (and Mozilla in general), Doug Bowman’s entry (and visitors’ comments) provide more than enough coverage.

1 Reply· 2003.10.18

New domain, new design

Published terribly early in the morning of October 18, 2003

For several years I’ve been moving my personal site from various hosting services, and this is the first time I’m actually paying for it. Thanks to my high school batchmate Noee over at ploghost, the hosting was ready in such a short time.

My old site is still up, maybe for a few more weeks until I produce something nice to place there.

This site’s current layout was done in haste, and there are no other sections yet except for the weblog. A photos section should be up soon, once I get the code for that part running. By the way, the weblog is still using tapsiLOG, the publishing tool I’ve been working on for quite some time now.

For now, just keep popping on this new site.

1 Reply· 2003.10.18

One for CSS designers

Published in the wee hours of October 3, 2003

Interesting response to Paul Hammond’s open letter to CSS recoders, which I mentioned not too long ago.

· 2003.10.03

The joys of the unemployed

Published mid-afternoon of October 1, 2003

David Dvorkin writes on the hidden pleasures of being unemployed. But you wouldn’t find his situation amusing if you consider how a man of such background be left jobless.

· 2003.10.01

Nice fashion photos

Published mid-afternoon of October 1, 2003

Here is a gallery of one of Manila’s hottest fashion photographers, Paolo Pineda. Very nice portfolio indeed.

· 2003.10.01