Published in the early afternoon of August 27, 2005
Joke-time muna wala ako masulat eh. I got this from an email forwarded by my ninong:
A filipino man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks?” St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.” “Oh,” said the man, “Whose clock is that?” “That’s Mother Teresa’s. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.” “Incredible,” said the man.
“And whose clock is that one?” St. Peter responded, “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.”
“Where’s Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s clock?” asked the man. The Philippine President’s’ clock is in Jesus’ office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”
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2005.08.27
- Pixar tells story behind ‘Toy Story’
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“… Not only did the big-money folks at Disney who bankrolled the film not understand the vision of Toy Story,’ they hated it so much they shut down production. …” #
Published mid-morning of August 26, 2005
I know a lot of my readers are EditPlus users like me, so I happily announce the release of EditPlus 2.20, after months (or has it been a year?) of seeming inactivity. Grab it now!
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2005.08.26
- GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
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Kottke thinks a web–based OS is the future, and suggests that industry leaders are indeed taking us in this direction. #
- Jean Alesi: An Appreciation
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“When he took the lead and realised the win was his if he just kept going, in typical fashion tears welled in Jean’s eyes, splashing against his visor every time he braked. When he crossed the line, mechanics from every team without exception were on the pit wall to cheer him home, a rare sight in the battle-hardened world of F1 testifying to the charisma of the man and the esteem in which he was held. There has undoubtedly never been a more popular victory in recent memory.” #
Published in the early morning of August 25, 2005
There is a problem with the Recent Links plugin on WordPress 1.5.2. It seems the redirection for the archives page and the monthly archives is failing, most probably a result of the changes to the handling of PHP global variables in the current WP. Thanks to the several users who have emailed to inform us. I am still trying to find the fix, and will write about it along with a plugin update at the soonest time possible. Please note that this is not a security problem, WP and wp-recent-links are working fine except that they’re not displayed correctly. 
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2005.08.25
Published in the wee hours of August 25, 2005
My latest CD review: Cueshe’s “Half Empty, Half Full.” This album is a good buy, the band rocks! Their pop appeal may not be as good as Hale, but they can surely stand their ground. I’m very proud to see another band from Cebu (or anywhere down south) hitting the bigtime. And if you’re looking for lyrics, there’s a Cueshe category at the lyrics! weblog.
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2005.08.25
Published in the early afternoon of August 24, 2005
Now google is talking. I feel like a kid discovering instant messaging, it’s like ICQ days all over again. And it works in the office, at least for now! Haha.
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2005.08.24
Published around lunchtime of August 22, 2005
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m also writing in one of my new weblogs. I hope to share with everyone, especially Filipino bloggers, the things I’ve learned in the field of — what else — blogging! Let’s see where this takes us.
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2005.08.22
Published just before lunchtime of August 22, 2005
I just spent a few minutes watching the intro video for Ruby on Rails, and I’m very impressed. No wonder 37signals has developed very successful web applications just within a few months of each other. I’m wondering, do we have equally simple–but–powerful frameworks in PHP? I think I’ll try to learn some Rails. Google/O’Reilly’s Best Hacker of 2005 David Hansson can’t be wrong.
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2005.08.22
Published in the early evening of August 21, 2005
This entry was written by Jonas, guess writing for Markku to introduce the songs Confused and Dito Ba.
Here are the latest songs that Pop Ratio has to offer, fresh off the grill and onto your dining table…
We’ve gone 3-piece again, seeing as Don has again managed not to arrive (as opposed to just not arriving on time… but oh well, that’s Don). And so due to this small technical difficulty, I was relegated to playing rhythm guitar in one of the songs. Even though my fingers are stinging right now (as a result of several nights of furious song finishing topped off with a thousand rearrangements and a couple more takes…), I would say the finished product was well worth the effort (I just hope I can still say that tomorrow when I’m using my hand to stitch up a laceration wound on someone’s head and my fingers can’t respond properly)…
I finally managed to finish something of my own, that being the song Confused, and put it down on record (boy, I didn’t think saying that could give such a rush). It could otherwise be described as a fool’s love song, or something along that line. Don’t ask me where i got the inspiration to finally make it… Markku has something new as well, in the short but sweet Dito Ba. We were having trouble trying to figure out how we were going to end it (as you might notice after listening to it), but we eventually did. If you ask me, both songs sound… well, totally different (flashes of Francis M, Hootie and the Blowfish, Rizal Underground and Sugarfree might come into mind). But still, they’re really good. As in really good. And that’s not just the pride of the songwriter that’s talking.
Anyway, we do hope to come up with some more songs in the near future. And as Markku has been so wishing for the past few months, we’re hoping to re-record these songs with better equipment (and probably somewhere else aside from the famed Studio B), and therefore, better results. If we could somehow drag every last one of our bandmates into one place at a single time that is (Carlo, umuwi ka na!!!)…
For now, rest assured that we will continue to try and come up with more songs of our own. And we do hope you keep on appreciating Pop Ratio music, and that of other OPM bands as well. Keep the music playing…
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2005.08.21
Published around lunchtime of August 20, 2005
I just caught a glimpse of Kitchie Nadal’s Ellipse cologne commercial, and now I’m sure the glory days of OPM is back. Reminds me of the Eraserhead’s Chippy ad, the variant with the green pack. Was that ten years ago?
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2005.08.20
- ybmarried: photos
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A nice example of things you could do with iPAP and a great template. Nice work! #
- Living Venice… and beyond.
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“Personal observations, information and the occasional Instructions by author and Venice inhabitant Nan McElroy.” This place I gotta visit at least once in my life. #
Published in the early evening of August 18, 2005
There has been much talk on the latest version of WordPress, because someone reported that the WP developers modified the package to reflect a last minute fix on a security vulnerability.
The current defense the developers are presenting is that the package was revised before any announcement of its availability was made. That’s a straight lie. I have nothing against WP and I’ve been part of this wonderful community for a long time now, but let’s keep the facts straight. I saw the announcement on the WP dev blog very late at night here in Manila, and I downloaded my copy the following morning, around 10AM. The gzipped file that I have does not contain the current fixes to wp-settings.php, and I compared it with another copy I just downloaded. I patched all my sites with the first, incorrect package.
I appreciate the efforts of the developers to keep WP secure, but we need not hide minor issues like this. Issue — I meant the mistake in the package initially provided, not the severity of the vulnerability. The current release should’ve been 1.5.2.1. I was given a false impression that my weblogs are secure, for a few days until I read about this. Next time, let’s be responsible about package and release management, and versioning. And move on. Now back to blogging.
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2005.08.18
Published in the early evening of August 17, 2005
An officemate’s band was features on Wave 89.1 yesterday, and they played for an hour, live on air! I’m not sure how to categorize their music, but Chilli Tees sounds fresh and promising.
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2005.08.17
Published in the early evening of August 17, 2005
Brendan pinged us to let us know we’ve been podcasted, again! Crash makes it to his latest offering, which I must say raises some interesting issues between podcasting and traditional radio. Listen to the show.
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2005.08.17
- Crocodile blood may yield powerful new antibiotics
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“Tests showed that the reptile’s immune system kills the HIV virus.” #
- Scrolling and Scrollbars
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“Despite posing well-known risks, websites continue to feature poorly designed scrollbars. Among the ongoing problems that result are frustrated users, accessibility challenges, and missed content.” Notice one of the examples for “Scrollbars that didn’t work.” Yeah, it’s a Filipino site. #
Published in the early afternoon of August 15, 2005
I’m back commenting again, replying to those left behind on entries this month. Leave a comment and I’d be happy to reply. 
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2005.08.15
Published in the early evening of August 11, 2005
I’ve been pimping my band Pop Ratio here on my weblog for how many entries now, so I guess it would be fitting to share with everyone our music. The first five tracks are originals, and the last is a cover which I shared recently. The originals are copyright Pop Ratio — share, spread the music, but please do not sell.
- Barok
- Crash
- Cut Into Me
- Luha
- Tanong
- Asul
Tracks 1 to 4 by Don Salvacion. Track 5 by Markku Seguerra. Arranged by Pop Ratio.
Now why do I sound like a CD insert?
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2005.08.11
Published just before lunchtime of August 10, 2005
I’ve been browsing articles on AJAX and other Web 2.0 related techniques, and I stumbled upon Dynamic Drive again for the first time in a year. Some of the available scripts can really be useful for improving the latest generation of rich web applications.
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2005.08.10
Published mid-afternoon of August 9, 2005
Since I’ve been talking a lot about bands and music these days, you should grab this cover (mp3) of Rannie Raymundo’s “Ating Bawiin,” performed by an unnamed US–based pinoy band with Joachim Guanzon on the guitars with his beautiful Tele. This is from their Mahal Pa Rin Kita sessions just about a week ago. They sound great, and I’d kill for a chance to have Pop Ratio play with their gear. Pinoy music rocks!
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2005.08.09
Published mid-afternoon of August 8, 2005
A little over ten years ago, we dreamed of making it big. It was the OPM era, with bands sprouting like wild grass all over the country, much like now. We learned every OPM hit song, playing them like we were our own. Our Pisay batchmates would often tease us as big Eraserheads wannabes, and maybe they were right back then. It was something we were proud of, in a way. No band in Pisay could cover them like we did, and playing Sembreak with the crowd singing along on our first public gig felt like our own personal heaven.
Ten years forward, we find ourselves in other fields of interest far away from the rock and roll life. But in an unexpected twist of fate like we always say, the band and the dream is suddenly back. We’ve been jamming at the rate of one session a month since April, and the last time we played together this much was way back in ‘95 — ‘96. We don’t really know where we’re headed, but the beauty of it is we’re doing this just because it feels right. We have nothing to lose, yet we have everything to gain.
Since I’m on reminiscing mode, let me share with you this cover song. Asul is from Auraeus Solito’s rock musical Manhid, and was originally played by [hulaan nyo] the early Eraserheads, before Ultraelectromagneticpop. It’s from our sessions two weekends ago. I miss high school.
Note: Most offices block friendster.com, so I’m providing cached versions of Jonas’ entries from his Friendster/Typepad weblog: “a dream almost fully realized” and “almost famous.”
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2005.08.08
Published in the wee hours of August 7, 2005
The live design is still ongoing, and parts of the site may break. Leave a comment if you see something funny. Yes, I still do read them, I just don’t reply for now until I’ve accomplished certain things.
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2005.08.07
Published in the early evening of August 5, 2005
I’m doing a live redesign on this site, just as I write this. Some pages may look funny, but they’ll be fine probably in a few hours. I’m going for the no–image look, as you can see. Or maybe not. And the complete redesign? I guess my laziness right now leans towards the slim chance of using the previous design, or a variant thereof.
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2005.08.05
Published just before lunchtime of August 4, 2005
This is late, but I forgot to mention it last time so I will now. Pop Ratio was featured in a podcast! We were on show #35 at Incoherent Ramblings, and I personally see it as a significant milestone in our band’s 10-year existence. Oh my, we’re really that old? Many thanks to Brendan and everyone who has listened to the podcast and our songs. The best is yet to come.
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2005.08.04
Published mid-afternoon of August 1, 2005
I think I’m back blogging again, but right now without a great percentage of this site. I’m rebuilding, bored with the recent layout so quickly that I never tried to get it to 100% completion. Having said that, the chances of using it again is quite slim, unless I do so badly in making a new design.
I haven’t been designing much the past few months, the most practice I’ve had was doing WP themes for my other blogs. I have a few upcoming projects, and a design for a prominent name in the Philippine blogging scene.
iPAP isn’t dead. It’s there, just haven’t really packed things for another public release. My WP plugins will always be available, with a few updates once in a while.
I don’t think I’m writing sensibly or comfortably, probably a result of the extended break. More to come soon, like Pop Ratio songs freshly baked.
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2005.08.01
