Two of my articles recently came out these past weeks, first a several – months delayed one, re the Sony Ericsson W550i Walkman phone (I have since acquired one since I liked it sooo much). Article here.
The second is “Lowdown on Gadgets”, which was supposed to be a gadget tips article. Here.
Pinoy Big Blogger Richmond Paul F. Ruiz aka Retzwerx is not only making a ton of cash from blogging, but also has the #10 spot at the WordPress Theme Viewer site with his 3 column Jeepney Template v1.0, just found out tonight.
Represent bro.
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I just watched this video about Barcamp, with the goal to show what it’s all about and such.
I first read of it from Sacha’s blog. Incidentally, her blog, featuring her travails as a stude in Canada, is a fascinating read of the adventures (and misadventures) of a young woman learning her way around the campus, and consequently in life.
It loads like molasses (sorry Sacha :D), but when you read it you’ll likely feel like I do, and applaud her, as if cheering on a heroine in a movie, as she goes through her daily stuff. She is me several years ago (just how many years is not the subject of this blog entry thank you very much), and you’d probably find a part of yourself in her as well.
In no particular order:
I’m a big notebook collector, and no it’s not ‘notebooks – computers’ but ‘notebook – Jolina on the cover’. You know, the one with paper, and requires a pen.
Anyway I’m nuts about these. I appreciate it whenever us press people are given freebie nice ones (I tend to use them till they fall apart), and there was a time I’d buy one every time I’d go to National Bookstore, so I’ve tried the ‘Blue Feather’, the yellow ‘King Jim’, ‘Green Apple’ and all sorts of other brands. I don’t like the spiral ones, I prefer the ones with a spine and I’d use it till it’d get all worn out and loose – leafed (if there’s such a word).
So this brought me to start wondering what the best type is out there, so I surfed and learned about Moleskins, reportedly the ones used by Van Gogh, Chatisse, Hemingway, Matisse and Gary Mercado. Yes I just sneaked my name in there, to see how it’d look aside those legends. Pitiful, I know.
At any rate, I was meandering about Greenbelt 2 the other day when I found these, called (I hope I get it right) “Authors” notebooks. Sorry about the lousy 1.3mpx pics. Anyway they’re covered in soft leather, come in fashionable colors (black, blue, red, pink, green, white etc.) and have really nice unlined paper in it, perfect for when you’re harboring hopeless thoughts of writing the next great Philippine novel, as I am wont to do often during the day.
I’m glad I made a post about the programs I use after a recent reformat (a biannual thing for Windows users), as it gave me a good view of the stuff that’s necessary for me to function, and to determine which ones I’d have to find an open source alternative for.
It’s not that easy. I’m a tech writer, and much of the action (especially in gaming) is on the Win platform. People rely on me for Win tech-support, and there’re also the gadgets I’d need to work with, 100% of which provide drivers and software only for Win and Mac. Then there’s the familiarity issue, especially with tools like Photoshop, Homesite and FTP client Filezilla, whose keyboard shortcuts I memorize by heart. Photoshop keyboard shortcuts are vital to cutting your work time by half or more. Giving up Photoshop will be a pain (sob).
I embarked on a personal project a few months ago called Free Website For NGOs, with fair results so far, and today I finally finished a page describing it.
I had to as there have been many queries about it. You can also click the orange image (I like orange) on the right to go to it. I also finally finished the small 125×67 gifs that recipient websites can choose from:
Here are a few Aklatangpambata.org banners you can put on your website to help promote the org.
The ad sizes are patterned after Google Adsense formats, and there are four so far, namely 468×60 banner, 125×125 button, 120×600 skyscraper and 160×600 wide skyscraper. I’ll be adding a few more soon.
Here they are!:
Ex-boss Boss Ruby (who’ll forever be called ‘boss’ till the day I die) was kind enough to correct me on my Beatle’s “Rain” post, where I mentioned Paul McCartney was ‘years away’ from the ‘Eagles’ when it should’ve been ‘Wings’. Arrgh. Hey at least it was close.
So no sooner than this snafu was pointed out than when I checked out the Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California” video, where they parody several other rock bands, further testing my (by now, well established) weak rock knowledge.
So what the hey, let’s try naming them all:
Fifth Gear is a weekly British tv show about motoring, featuring road tests and motoring news of legendary classics, expensive exotics, special interest alternative powered cars and all sorts of other types from executive tourers, sports utilities, trucks and vans to family sedans.
And I have the 2006 Season 9 torrents!