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Why you should use Flickr

It’s been a long while since I last posted anything – doing NYC hours for work can really take its toll on you. But during the day, when not doing errands, or hanging out with my girlfriend (or sleeping). I’ve been tweaking nargalzius.com quite a bit.

Of course a lot of other stuff has happened but lets save those for another day. This time I just want to pimp Flickr after something I recently did with my site.

Just recently, I finally convinced myself to sign-up with Flickr‘s premium membership to lift the limitations of the free service (infinite upload bandwidth and collection/set creation, etc.).

Now I’ve always had the preference to use Flickr for all my picture needs. After all, even the free service they have already has pleny-a-benefit if you want to have reliable image hosting that can embedded anywhere. I even didn’t mind the premium membership price because it was well worth it.

The only reason I didn’t go all-Flickr was because for a “personal gallery,” I really wanted people accessing it through my domain and have the layout/design gel with my sites overall theme. Hence, I used to have a separate gallery for my actual photo sets. And just used Flickr as a general repository for images I use for blog posts. Read More

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During the weekend

Everyone knows that a lot of things happened during the weekend. The whole Super Typhoon Reming issue was enough to keep everyone busy.

Palawan

We were slated to have a concert in Culion, Palawan, and Jowi, Jampao and I went ahead of the group… about a day before – this was before Reming was even a problem.

The group was scheduled to leave on a Friday. Sure enough, their flight was cancelled – and tension rose for the three of us in Culion (well, actually only Jowi was stressed since she was the point person for this, Jamps and I were just taking it easy). Would there be a possibility that the group not make it at all?

One joke we had was actually pulling off the concert with only three of us – after all we had a guy, a girl, and a pianist. So if we switched repertoires to all solos it would’ve been quite feasible. Still, nakakahiya sa mga organizers, since they booked and paid for everything – the prospect of a half-assed performance [with only about a fifth of the members] wasn’t an option.

Fortunately God as usual, seemed to be on BP’s side, and the rest of the group was able to reach arrive the next day, and everything fell into place afterwards.

Now I’m back and I have a fever… I’m hoping it’s just due to fatigue over the weekend, and not symptomatic of more a serious illness (e.g. Malaria, Dengue, etc.)

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BP Concert – Carmona, Cavite

Wow, the title was almost a complete alliteration!

Anyways, our group had a concert yesterday. Pictures of which I posted in the gallery.

I’m so out of practice with my photography; my hands aren’t as “steady” as they used to be – which was a pain in the ass since I was retarded enough to decide not to bring the flash. I had so many soft shots even with the 50-prime for crying out loud!

Enough bickering though. As far as the concert goes, we braved the challenging conditions we were faced with, and it turned out pretty well. Again, the Holy Spirit seemed to lend the group a helping hand.

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It’s here…

I got reprimanded by Juan last week during one of our conversations:

juanporu: bibili na dapat ako ng c2d
juanporu: kaso naubos pera ko dun sa <site we rather not mention>
nargz: “c2d”?
juanporu: core 2 duo
juanporu: you gotta be in with the linggo dude…
juanporu: you’re about to own one

Now, I am forced to “get with the linggo,” as it were – as I am now an owner of a MBP 15″ 2.33GHz C2D with 2GB RAM, 256MB VRAM, and sure, FW800 as well. That linggo-ed enough?

Kidding aside, I promised Juan a “review” of the new MBP in comparison to an old PowerBook G4 – I’ll be getting to the performance part soon enough. Meanwhile, let me focus on the aesthetics – which we know Apple fans go gaga over.

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