Arogante Siya!!!
AROGANTE SIYA!!! Isa sa mga binitiwan na salita ni ginang Susan Roces kahapon sa press conference sa Club Filipino. Sa unang tingin parang galit na galit si Mrs. Roces. Pero parang hindi ko naramdaman na totoo ang mga emosyon na kanyang pinakita. Parang ako ay nanunood ng isang award show at siya ay isa sa mga tumanggap ng award. Hindi ko alam kung nagbabasa siya at kailangan niyang i-timing sa cue ang kanyang mga sigaw at iyak (umiyak ba siya?). Nahalata ko sa mga camera man at mga journalist na dumalo na hindi sumusunod sa mga emosyon niya ang kanilang mga palakpak. Kulang sa synchronization. Hala. SAGRADO ANG AKING BOTO!!! SA eleksyon lang pantay-pantay tayong lahat!!! Mayaman ka man o mahirap, IISA LANG TAYO BUMOTO!!! Ito ba mga sinabi niya? Di yata eh. Pero parang ganyan.
Project Management
I have read some of the tools that Shawn mentioned in his blog which include Backpack and Basecamp. I did not waste a minute and see and try both. Backpack and Basecamp is owned by the same company which explains the similarity of their product. From what I understand Basecamp is more complex than Backpack. Since Backpack gives me 5 projects as opposed to 1 by Basecamp as the number of projects you can manage, I went for Backpack.
Using backpack is really easy and straight forward. What’s the better way to try than to use it for my current project. I did not any project management software before. I was satisfied by using a text file to manage programming projects. The good part is I got a hang using Backpack that I have finish my current project before the expected completion and I am more consistent.
Wordpress 1.5.1.3 Available
Ulanghiya. Kaka-upgrade ko palang sa 1.5.1.2 at kakatapos ko lang ayusin ang mga di gumaganang plugins eh eto na naman. May bago nang release. Ang bilis naman magtrabaho ng mga tao sa WP. Kung gumagamit kayo ng Wordpress me vulnerability sa xmlrpc.php file nyo kaya upgrade na daw kayo. Kung di nyo gustong mag-upgrade, delete nyo nalang yung xmlrpc.php na file. Para huwag na kayong mahirapan sa pag type sa address bar, dito nalang kayo mag click papuntang WP. Di ko alam kung maga-upgrade ako oh idi-delete ko nalang yung xmlrpc.php. Pagkakaalam ko di naman masyadong importante ang xmlrpc.php. Ito ay nagagamit lang kung gusto mong magpost sa WP blog na hindi gamit ang Admin panel. Kunyari nasa flickr ka at may nakita kang magandang picture at gusto mo i-blog gamit ang flickr papunta sa WP installation mo, pag wala yung xmlrpc.php file, di malalaman ng wp kung anong gagawin nya sa mga natanggap na data. Sana pwede patch nalang sa susunod. Yung me mga diperensya na file lang ang papalitan. Delikado rin kasi pagpalagi kang naga-upgrade. Napapakialaman ang database. Di pa naman naka transaction ang MySQL na siyang backend DB ng WP.
O ano? Upgrade o delete?
Firefox on Windows
ShortStat has reported that apart from the web bots, most visitors of this site uses Firefox. Roughly 85% of the visitors of this site uses Firefox. Only 10% uses any variant of IE. 5% of the remaining uses either Safari or Opera. Their OS of choice? 90% of the visitors uses Windows while 9% uses Mac and the 1% are on Linux/BSD.
The statistics translates to the increase usage of Firefox as the browser of choice by the visitors of this site, and as a subset, blog readers. Not only on this site, I have read other blogs that reported Firefox users comprises majority of their reader. It is actually good news. This only shows that heavy internet users such as bloggers and readers alike are already aware of the security issues that using IE carries.
I, myself, preferred to use Firefox as my main browser - using only IE to check how my design look on it. This is due not only to the fact that website look much nicer in Firefox but also because of its tabbing feature. Now everytime somebody I know who buys a new computer, I quickly suggest that they download and install Firefox and Thunderbird (Mozilla’s email client) right away.
Umamin na si Ate Glo
Umamin na pala si Ate Glo. Kung di ko pa nabasa sa blog ni Ederic di ko pa nalaman. Di kasi ako nakakabasa ng mga pahayagan nitong nakalipas na mga araw. Di ko na rin nakitang me update ang mga taga PCIJ sa pinoyblog. Hindi ba sila lumambot? Di naman siguro. Malalayang mamamahayag ang mga tao dun.
Ang tagal naman yatang magdesisyon ni Ate Glo. Sana pinagisipan na nila ng mabuti ang kasalukuyang hakbang nila. Baka lalong magiging circus na naman ang malakanyang. Maganda to. May aabangan na naman tayong mga komentaryo galing sa mga eksperto sa pulitika. Ano na naman kaya ang makikitang mali sa palasyo? Sana huwag makalimutan na may jueteng gate pa. Mahirap nang maubusan ng magandang topikong pampulitika. Pero huwag ka. Marami pang susunod. Pulitka to eh. At pinoy tayo.
The Da Vinci Code
Just finish reading The Da Vinci Code. Quite an interesting story. There are really something with the notion of secrets and societies that keeps them which makes people want to be a member too. For a technology savvy guy like me and an internet addict, I enjoy the book so much. Especially the code breaking. Let’s see if the movie is up to par with the book.
Repetitive Strain Injury
University of Nebraska-Lincoln defined RSI as:
Repetitive Strain Injuries occur from repeated physical movements doing damage to tendons, nerves, muscles, and other soft body tissues. Occupations ranging from meatpackers to musicians have characteristic RSIs that can result from the typical tasks they perform. The rise of computer use and flat, light-touch keyboards that permit high speed typing have resulted in an epidemic of injuries of the hands, arms, and shoulders. Use of pointing devices like mice and trackballs are as much a cause, if not more so. The thousands of repeated keystrokes and long periods of clutching and dragging with mice slowly accumulates damage to the body : another name for the condition is Cumulative Trauma Disorder. This can happen even more quickly as a result of typing technique and body positions that place unnecessary stress on the tendons and nerves in the hand, wrist, arms, and even the shoulders and neck. Lack of adequate rest and breaks and using excessive force almost guarantee trouble.
According to them computer related RSI have the following symptoms:
- Tightness, discomfort, stiffness, soreness or burning in the hands, wrists, fingers, forearms, or elbows.
- Tingling, coldness or numbness in hands.
- Clumsiness or loss of strenght and coordination in hands.
- Pain that wakes you up at night.
- Feeling the need to massage your hands, wrist and arms.
- Pain in the upperback, shoulders, or neck associated with using the computer.
I am experiencing the last two. I am worried of my hands. The 5th symptom says exactly what I am doing. There are times that I would just want to sit on my hand just to lessen the pain and sensation. My god, I can live without a foot but not my hands. I am now try to avoid using a mouse. Luckily I’m working on notebook with a touchpad for navigation. I suspect it is the mouse that causes my RSI because my left hand is perfectly ok and it’s only my right hand which I use all the time that has pain.
Inline with my RSI, I really hate to use software that requires usage of mouse to navigate. With the programs I made, accesskeys are the first one that I add to the enhancement after the main functions are all sorted out. Keyboard navigation is still by far the fastest to use.
Design Project
I have taken a freelance web design project for a small baptist church where the pastor is a close friend of mine. I have a hard time looking for a design concept as it should be something formal. It should not be looking like too trendy or too colorful. As for now, there was just nothing in my mind. I’m blown out. Obviously, it will be having a CMS backend. Of course I will be using WP for this. Back to the design, I do have one or two designs sketched in my jotdown pad which I carry with me all the time - you wouldn’t know when you’ll be hit by extreme creativity. One is planned to be used with my friend’s website - it’s taking to long to finish. Aaaah… Look at my design. It’s too simple. I am worried that they’ll find my design so simple. Oh well, it’s up to them.
KG Archives V2.1
KG Archives Version 2.1 is released. This version is written without the SAJAX backend added in the version 2.0. It now has the options to categorized, show all or current month initially and exclude categories. The resulting code now validates as valid XHTML and somewhat sematic.
Installation
- Upload kgarchives.php to your /wp-content/plugins folder.
- Activate in your Admin panel’s Plugins menu.
- Create a page with a page slug of “archives” (This can be anything. See readme.txt).
- Write <kgarchives />. (See readme.txt for options)
Tape Transcript
Nag download ako ng transcript ng mga usapan sa kontrobersyal na tape kagabi. Sa sobrang haba ng usapan, hindi ko namalayan mag uumaga na pala (umaga na ba ang alas dos?). Hindi ako ang tipo na tsismoso pero nakakatuwa pala makinig/magbasa ng usapan ng iba. Lalo na yung alam mong totoong usapan ng mga inosenteng (inosente nga ba?) tao. Hindi ko naririnig ang mga boses dahil transkripto lang ang aking nababasa ngunit parang naririnig ko pa rin ang boses ni GMA at Garci sa mga linyang aking nababasa. Una ko narinig sa telebisyon, di ko na ma-alala kung aling programa, ang mga boses ni GMA at Garci dahil sa tape. Kaya habang nagbabasa ng transkripto ay aking nai-imagine ang mga boses ng mga linya.
Meron akong napuna na usapan sa pagitan ni “Gary” at isang babaeng “may practice pa” kaya medyo na late sa pagdating sa starbucks. Nai-imagine ko rin ang eksenang yun na parang me relasyon si Gary at yung babaeng may practice pa. Naku di lang pala yari sa mga imbestigador itong si Gary, yari din siya sa asawa. At saka pala, nasaan na kaya ngayon si Senator Barbers? Ilang beses lumabas ang pangalan niya dun sa transkripto. At parang boses rin niya yung nasa tape na narinig ko.
Masyado palang malakas itong si “Gary”. Kaya ipakidnap yung ayaw sumunod sa gusto na niya. May pa “soft touch” pa siyang alam. Naku ayoko na. Baka magalit na ang mga taong ito sa akin at ako itong ipakidnap. Bah, wala silang makukuha sa akin.