one of my best shots
Friday 10 October 2003 @ 1:59 pm
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………….according to pen ü

this was taken christmas season ‘02.

was playing around with the close-up effect of our digicam.







current desktop
Friday 10 October 2003 @ 1:57 pm
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i am always awed with these new wallpapers coming out. eversince i was able to use windows, i see to it that i have the best wallpaper in my pc. thanks to my cousin kuya ronald for opening my eyes to this eye-candies.

here’s my current desktop.







lesson for the day
Friday 10 October 2003 @ 10:15 am
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if your gifs do not animate and you have zone alarm pro installed, chances are, ZA is blocking your animations…

here is how you do it:
1. click the privacy menu
2. click custom on mobile control setting
3. click ad blocking tab
4. uncheck animation box.
5. voila!







london’s gin + tang lemonade
Friday 10 October 2003 @ 9:28 am
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sarap.

i always have no hangover after drinking london’s dry gin the following morning. feels great even.

pulutans were: sisig, the infamous mani and choowey choco. ü

also, try to play jack-en-poy while drinking. it was fun. LOL







Euro-English
Friday 10 October 2003 @ 9:22 am
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from the philippine star:

“The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan of the official language that would be known as ‘EuroEnglish.’

“On the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c.’ Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favor of the ‘k.’ This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

“There will be growing publik enthusiasm on the sekond year, when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with the ‘f.’ This will make words like ‘fotograf’ 20 percent shorter.

“On the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent ‘e’s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away.

“By the 4th yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v.’ During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’ and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

“After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!”







crappy hardware
Friday 10 October 2003 @ 9:17 am
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this pc is giving me headaches.

seems to me i have a hardware problem. it’s either the board or the hdd or the vidcard. i am betting it is the board.
you see, here is how it goes:
whenever i boot my pc, sometimes nothing comes out of the monitor. no signal whatsoever. i will try to boot it up to five times until it will finally boot properly.
then when i’m already in, it will freeze when i am in a middle of something. then back to powering on the hard way.

here are the things i have already done to isolate the problem:
1. i changed the processor. from XP 1.8 to XP 1.2. the problem still remains. it’s not my processor (proc was just replaced a couple of months back)
2. i interchanged the DDR memory to the other 2 free slots. (this works sometimes when i have a hard time booting up).

so, i have really a big hunch that it is the board. it is becoming picky when booting up.

but i also think that my hdd is dying. i have 2 hdd: 1 30gb barracuda and 1 40gb 5400rpm seagate. i’m thinking that my barracuda is dying because it is too darn hot after some time.

what i want to try is to change first the hdd (because that is the easiest way out). if the problem persists, i will have to change the board with something else.

and one more thing, during one of those hard-to-boot times, screen once froze the POST screen. hmmm…. what gives?

anyway, i have no time (and money) to fix this problem. i have to put up with what i have now.