Monthly Archives: January 2008

Up A Notch

Yay! It’s pretty cool that my programming blog went up a notch in its google page rank. As of this writing, it has a PR of 6. Do I see a 7 coming up?

Classic Anime

Two of the classic anime shows I grew up watching were Speed Racer and Mazinger Z. A few months ago I managed to get the complete collection of these shows.
Funny thing is that whenever I start watching them, I fall asleep right away. I commented this weird thing to my best friend, and [...]

Heartless Bastard!

Last Friday (Jan 25), when I was coming home from work, I listened on the radio that a man was arrested after being accused of burning a toddler with a blow dryer till his skin started to peel off. At first, I thought it was a made up story so when I got home [...]

Just In Case…

My brother’s girlfriend sent me an email with a “tip of the day“:

Just in case you’re caught sleeping at work…

Slowly raise your head and say:
“… In the name of Jesus, Amen!”

WP dot com Should Test Their Apps Thoroughly

Do the guys at wordpress.com really test their new implementations before rolling them out to production? It seems they don’t.
Sure, nothing is perfect and (us) developers are human too, thus, we may break something unintentionally… However, to minimize this kind of mishaps, it’s of good practice to test thoroughly. Make sure new implementations [...]

Velvet Hands

One of my hobbies is to transfer music from records and cassettes to my computer; restore the songs and then burn the clean versions on a CD, or just add them to my iTunes library and iPods (yes, I have two). I too scan the covers, clean them in Photoshop and add them to [...]

No Traffic Light, No Traffic Jam… No Accidents

My brother sent me this video which I find unbelievable!
It seems the intersection doesn’t have a traffic light and yet, people don’t crash and there’s no traffic jam either! This is in Saigon, Vietnam.

For sure, I wouldn’t dare driving there.