The gf moved to Singapore this weekend. And since it’s her first weekend, we spent most of it going around, watching a movie and doing a bit of shopping. We went to the PC Show to get a couple of external hard drives. I got a WD My Book Home Edition (3.5″ USB, FireWire, eSATA) for Time Machine on my MBP. She got a white WD Passport Essential (2.5″ USB) for her MB.On our way out of the PC Show we saw Dingdong Dantes as we were going down on the escalator. I muttered “Eto pala si Dingdong oh.” and I realized that I was loud when he turned to us with a puzzled look. So I just said hi and he acknowledged. Haha!
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Archive for the 'geek 'n' tech' Category
I’ve been geeking out a lot lately. Installing and trying out web apps on my phone. Right now, I’m typing this on my iPod Touch. I’ve also been watching a lot of geeky podcasts like diggnation, geekbrieftv, tekzilla, mahalodaily, twit, etc.
Drum training’s been going well also. I’ve had 3 lessons already and I’m learning quite a lot about consistency, finger techniques, rudiments, accents, taps, true 16 beat, etc. This is my first foray into getting some kind of formal drum training. I even got myself a 6 inch practice pad so I can practice my rudiments anywhere. Haha.
April was a month I got a lot of loving. My girlfriend came here to visit me on my birthday. We spent a lot of time together eating and just plain fooling around, things we’ve been missing a lot. She gave me a Moleskine and a Wacom Bamboo. My mom and brother called to greet me on my birthday. (Which reminds me, Mom’s day is around the corner, still thinking what to get my mom) And my bandmates surprised me the day before my birthday, complete with confetti and cake. My sincerest gratitude goes to everyone who remembered 
April was also the month I changed jobs. My colleagues were all so sweet and got me a nifty farewell gift, an iPod Touch. I was really quite surprised they got me something. I thought the cake was already it. Haha!
My new workmates are a fun bunch and I’m starting to really like working there. It’s such a warm and fuzzy feeling being back in the wonderful and exciting world of startups. And it’s great that I get to talk technology and all those geek stuff to enlighten people who aren’t as geeky as me but are also interested in knowing how things work.
Part of my life goals is to get to do stuff related to technology and music. Right now I am getting pretty much that with my new job and my band.
It’s so nice to be surrounded by such wonderful people, considering I’m not really the friendly, talk to anyone type.
Life is good.
sunday, i got a lot of happy stuff. i bought myself a cordless keyboard so that i don’t get my wrists and neck too strained when using my laptop with my “big” widescreen monitor. i still have yet to replace the pen of my graphire4 so i also got myself a trackball. since i think using mice really strains my wrist and arm. the trackball seems to be promising, i am in the process of getting used to it though.
and for the special part, i got a package from my ever-loving girlfriend, who’s been real busy trying to fill up her moleskine with paint sketches. i got a sponge cola cd, 4 very cute t shirts and a couple of things for my ever dry lips. hahaha. photos after the jump
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.2.1. It says it’s a required upgrade as it fixes several security vulnerabilities.
Finally, there’s Safari for Windows. I’ve tested it for a few sites and so far so good. The text rendering is beautiful. However, it seems to be a memory hog. Also, when trying to create a link using the visual editor of Wordpress 2, it deselects the text thereby making no link at all. It’s still on Public Beta so bugs are quite expected. But at least, I don’t have to go to the neighboring Macs just to check if sites are rendering correctly on Safari.
I’m in the process of consolidating all my email messages onto one Gmail account and deleting messages that I don’t actually need. This is so I’ll only be checking less accounts when reading and searching for messages. My ultimate target is that I should be left with just three email accounts to check. One for personal, another one for professional/business stuff and one for online stuff. It will be tiring to organize everything but I think it’ll be worth it in the long run.
Just installed Wordpress 2.2 and had to disable the built-in widgets since I’m using K2. Most of my plugins are working though so no problem for me. Haven’t updated my photoblog though since I’m too lazy to edit my theme so it would work with the newer Wordpress. Probably, when I get some more time to actually think over a nice design and layout.
I’ve added twitter on the sidebar.
There a discussion over at Yugatech asking if people turn off their computers at night. Personally, I’ve been using standby. It’s more convenient to boot it up again from standby rather than wait for it to boot up from a cold start.
