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Re-organization

Because of the increasing number of “stuff” I have in my room, I decided to replace my computer table with a real table. I guess this was made possible because of the switch to LCDs, which consume much less space, and are presentable right out of the box (one of the uses of computer tables is that they can make big ugly CRT monitors still look presentable in a given environment). I got myself a 750x75cm table which will hopefully, give me more space to work with while being more compact than my current setup.

Anyways, as of the moment, this is how my room is laid out:

Notice how far off the computer is from the edges – that was to compensate for the space my computer table was occupying (I sure as hell wasn’t going to waste time trying to reconstruct a vector of that complex table). In any case, it’s obvious how much of a hassle it can become. Read More

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My Ecological Footprint

Got this from Jeline. I kinda guessed at some answers since I really wasn’t in the mood to actually measure some stuff 1 Like how many square meters our home is, or how many miles per liter our cars run at.

Anyways, some people may say it’s time to change… I say it’s time to get our asses into space and colonize some planets!

Besides, in terms of supply and demand, why is it that we have to cut on our consumption… why not cut on population? If it wasn’t for the fact that we are over-populated, this kind of lifestyle wouldn’t be an issue. I’m sure we can come up with a couple of billion people who don’t deserve to live in this world hehehe.

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⇡1 Like how many square meters our home is, or how many miles per liter our cars run at.
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Obsessive compulsive(ness)

I got some nice looking external hard disk enclosures last year, and have been struggling with them since then. Ultimately it was a chipset problem.

They were using the infamous Prolific chipset which often resulted to inconsistencies in performance. One day they’d be working fine. The next, they wouldn’t mount. Sometimes you’d have to power-cycle them to get them working again. Other times, you’d have to take them apart and massage the cables a little (I have no idea why this would work, but I was out of options and tried it – and it worked) Sometimes if it wouldn’t load on USB, switching to IEEE1394 would solve it.

They were more reliable in Windows than they were in the Mac. If your machine goes to sleep with them connected, don’t expect them to wake up along with it.

A few days ago, I decided to replace them with these babies:

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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.)

No regrets though, we had a blast – and have pictures to prove it! Read More

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Casino Royale

Got to watch Casino Royale last night.

While I was never really a fan Mr. Fleming’s Bond series (I find Mission Impossible more fun to watch) I have to say that people should cut the new guy some slack. If you get past the whole stigma of James Bond having to look really good, I’d say this new guy did pretty well. Not that the movie had a lot of “acting” in it, but you know what I mean.

Anyways, I couldn’t get the theme song out of my mind. It was awesome. When I first heard it, I said to my girlfriend:

I think this is Audioslave, I’m pretty sure the singer’s Chris Cornell.

I still wasn’t sure since the musical style didn’t sound like Audioslave – it sounded more like Cornell’s songs during his stint as a solo artist. Sure enough, at one point in the credits, it stated clearly stated “Chris Cornell”… not Audioslave.

Anyways, here’s the song (which unfortunately isn’t released with the OST)