Wisdom of the Jabberwocky

2005-06-22T22:15:00.000-07:00

Due to lack of attention, I've decided to stop blogging to this site for a while. Also, mainly because I've gotten used to post blogs through email and the time it takes to publish an emailed blog is too long that by the time it gets publish, the blog is already stale.I will still maintain my other blog at MSN Spaces and it's custom mirror Caluste.comI will leave the chat window available at the

Free Certifications

2005-03-29T09:46:00.000-08:00

What a treat, Brainbench is giving away free certifications until April 4 as part of their annual Bench Games. Register at http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/login.xml and receive your free account. These are official online certifications issued by Brainbench, an employment testing site. Within the first hour, I took two exams, Visual Basic 6.0

Friendster

2005-03-27T22:06:00.000-08:00

I felt cheated. Since the start of the Friendster “fever”, I never jumped on the bandwagon. I have two reasons. First, it is too gay for me. I said so because most people I know, who are in friendster, are either girls, or are still below their puberty age. Second, I am not the sociable type. I’ve seen ugly exchanges of testimonials from ex-friends and I’

Good Friday

2005-03-25T00:48:00.000-08:00

It's the time for fasting and penitence. Fasting is out of the picture, and we're doing a dvd marathon the entire day. And since yesterday, I am too sick to function. :(

Hello PHP!

2005-03-22T19:44:00.000-08:00

I am an ASP programmer. I write scripts in VBscript and use a solid line-up of Microsoft products: IIS 5.1, SQL Server 2k and Access 97+. I’ve been doing it for years already and it seems that I could live knowing only Microsoft-developed products. Or so I thought. Nowadays, Microsoft is not the only entity that develops superb tools for programmers like

Holy Tuesday

2005-03-21T17:18:00.000-08:00

One more day to go and I’m back to having another vacation! I just got back from work yesterday following my two weeks hiatus and as early as today, my mind is already starting to slumber back into vacation mode. I found two new cool products today. The first is iPod Shuffle; it’s a small USB flash drive MP3 player from apple. What differentiates it from

Distractions

2005-03-20T06:31:00.000-08:00

Today is the last day of my two weeks hiatus from office. Before the start of my vacation, I had already set several plans on how I would spend the next two weeks. I had to do a lot of things for Purpletrain; there's a part of a project that I needed to finish and several reading materials that I needed to read. As if I was already running out of materials to read, I brought with me books that

Numb

2005-03-17T09:48:00.000-08:00

Have you ever eaten anything but cold food the whole day? Try ice cream in the morning, ice candy for merienda and ice water in between. Sure it provides a soothing relief for any sore throat, but at the end of the day, what do you think your food will taste? NOTHING! My taste buds are numb with all the cold food intake. I cannot even appreciate a sweet egg pie or a sweet chocolate ice cream.

SplitZ

2005-03-16T23:04:00.000-08:00

I just finished work on a small utility app that I call SplitZ. It's an improved version of a similar app that I did months ago called PCCsplit. Basically, it's a utility app that automates the process of splitting a large file, zipping it and mailing to recipients. The project started when we found it tedious to distribute large files to free, web-based email recipients. Basically, to send a 3MB

Canker Sore

2005-03-16T21:59:00.000-08:00

When it rains, it pours. Just when I thought that having a sore throat due to a recent tonsillectomy can't go worse, try having multiple canker sores. These are painful, shallow ulcers which occur inside the mouth. Sa tagalog, singaw. So, while swallowing soft food takes a bit of effort, chewing it is even more challenging with canker sores in my lip and mouth. I used to mistake these as cold

Tonsillectomy and Food Choices

2005-03-13T08:31:00.000-08:00

It's only the second day after my tonsillectomy and it still feels weird not having my tonsils. The procedure was simple and fast; they put me in a very narrow operating table with my head on a donut-shaped pillow, attached some monitors from my head to my ankle and slipped a gas mask on my face. After two deep breaths, I passed out. The next thing I knew, I was already in the recovery room, with

Learn @ Home

2005-03-11T13:07:00.000-08:00

Staying home and watching TV isn't always unproductive. You learn a lot of things in television. Take for example The Matrix. Morpheus said this to the leader of zion, after he latter said he hopes that the prophecy, that the former strongly believes in, is true: "It is not a matter of hope, it is a matter of time." Very witty. So the next time someone says "I hope that blah blah blah....", you

E-mail

2005-03-08T21:36:00.000-08:00

I know several people with multiple email identities. And I am one of those people. Before, during the time of the Internet boom, I am one of those who lined up with hotmail's new web-based email. Hotmail was then a non-Microsoft entity, and it was hot. A 2MB space is more than enough to handle most of your electronic correspondences. Now, several web-based email services are vying in for the "

Spending My Last Night with It

2005-03-04T08:36:00.000-08:00

Tonight is the night that I will spend my last with my tonsils. I’ve been planning to part with it since last year. It’s sad to lose a part of you that you’ve been with since you were born. We’ve been through a lot of things- from every sore throat to every cough, from a multitude of ice cream flavors to gallons of hot coffee. It was there when I uttered

Birthday Tragedy

2005-02-24T19:27:00.000-08:00

Something strange happened on my 26th Birthday. It was as if the cast of the full moon on my party the night before foretold of something that was about to happen. Early this morning, February 25th, my wife received a phone call about the death of one of our employees. Binangungot daw. It was the second time that this happened to the same guy; only, on

Products of the bored mind

2005-02-20T21:53:00.000-08:00

If time is irrelevant, what do you think of the following match-ups? (boxing / mixed martial arts / wrestling) § Bruce Lee vs Ken Shamrock § Andre the Giant vs Big Show § Tyson vs Butterbean (fantasy fiction) § Raistlin vs

Boxing Loss

2005-02-19T05:39:00.000-08:00

I just watched a replay of the Dela Hoya-Sturm middleweight championship match via Solar Sports. Sturm played a very scientific boxing; his guard always up and accurate jabs almost landing everytime. Honestly, at the end of the 12th round I thought he won (I have never read about the result of this bout prior to this replay). However, he was no match to Dela Hoya's deadly combination and

[REVIEW] You Subscribe:RSS

2005-02-16T20:42:00.000-08:00

Just recently, I found a nifty application: the You Subscribe:RSS. Basically, it’s a news aggregator, a software that allows you to read blogs (or webpages that supports syndication) using well-known syndication technologies such as RSS and ATOM. Imagine this: you have a set of boomarked URLs of your friend’s blog or news sites. In order to read the blog entries, or news articles, you have

Fix your own printer

2005-01-17T05:51:00.000-08:00

I revisited a site that I came across three years ago. The site is called fixyourprinter.com and as the URL suggests, this site tells you how to fix your own old printer. Rather than spend Php 800 and above for labor, you can troubleshoot and actually fix your own printer by just following the step by step instructions in the site. The site boasts of a huge collection of user and service

Single Instance Store

2005-01-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

While doing maintenance on my server’s disk volumes, I noticed a large hidden folder. It’s called the SIS Common Store. Trying to free up some space, I removed RIS (Remote Installation Services) in my server and reviewed the SIS, before I do anything stupid (SIS did not appear in my mcsa exams :P) SIS, or Single Instance Store is an NTFS driver that

2005-01-13T23:52:00.000-08:00

I've uploaded two sets of pictures today. Both are near bodies of water. One is in the Bay City Promenade, another one is just around our Park Lagoon. The Bay City Promenade Sunrise Welcome King and Queen of Bay City The Heritage Park Lagoon The IT Group, feeling band album cover shoot :) The Fishing Dock The Lagoon

Google Vs. Microsoft (round 2)

2005-01-12T01:24:00.000-08:00

RSS or Really Simple Syndication has been around for quite some time already. It is only now that it has triggered my interest. So what is RSS? Simply put, it gathers content (in any form) and presents it to anyone in a pre-defined format. Let say you are subscribed to ten newsletters and a dozen blogs, RSS Readers aggregate, or compile information from

Chikka SPAM

2004-12-27T00:24:00.000-08:00

Quote: A new consumer goods tracking system called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to enter all of our lives, with profound implications for consumer privacy. RFID couples radio frequency (RF) identification technology with highly miniaturized computers that enable products to be identified and tracked at any point along the supply chain.

Quote, unquote

2004-12-20T10:23:00.000-08:00

Rummaging through the net, I stumbled upon a CNET article that quoted my suggestion in a previous TechRepublic discussion. Quote: Other members, including IT manager Ronald Caluste, uncovered additional information, which identified the file as Hacktool.Flooder. Along with Fleming, he pointed to a more comprehensive Symantec reference page on Hacktools.

Alumni Party

2004-12-19T07:03:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday was one of the longest day for me, and this Sunday is one of the shortest. Let me explain. On Saturday morning, I went to Ortigas to take my purpletrain exam, to Dra. Quimbo to take my Charle's prescription for his rashes, to Makati to bring Rose to Clinica Manila back in Megamall, and to Body Shop to buy gifts for Mamu. By the time we were back in Pasig, I was readying to attend my

Touche

2004-12-17T09:05:00.000-08:00

It worked! The post-via-email-to-both-blogs worked but with delays. It took almost 15 minutes to post to blogspot; not sure about msn spaces though. The fonts need a little fix; it won't adapt the blog's existing theme, so it has to be set from the email client. To those who are reading this from Blogspot, go see the mirror blog at MSN spaces (http://spaces.msn.com/members/itguy). To those who

One Article, Two Blogs

2004-12-17T02:03:00.000-08:00

I wanted to re-activate my old blog, the one hosted at blogspot (http://itguy.blogspot.com), because of the following reasons: 1. MSN Spaces is not very customizable (it has very limited modules, but then again, its only beta) 2. On the other hand, there are a lot of things you can do with blogger (Tag boards, etc). Now, while MSN Spaces shows a lot of

2003-05-20T22:07:00.000-07:00

Attended the Philippine launch of Microsoft's Windows 2003 .NET Server. It was a big event, attended by almost 3000 IT people. They raffled off 5 Smart Amazing phones and 1 xbox. Too bad I didn't win. Oh well. At least the architect track seminar I attended was worthwhile :)

2003-05-18T18:09:00.000-07:00

hmm.. still thinking of putting up a private website. Will include this blog for sure :)

2003-05-18T18:05:00.000-07:00

Finished Icewind Dale 2! Yay!.. now playing heart of fury mode.. dang, just got no time :P

2003-03-12T02:43:00.000-08:00

Got to stay in the office to finish a presentation AND documentation for a project. *Yawn*. I'm going to finish Icewind dale 2 soon!

2003-01-23T23:09:00.000-08:00

Hi! This is my first blog and I guess I am supposed to say, "welcome to my first webblog!", but I'd rather not :P I will be setting up my own site for this blog soon... hopefully :)