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AJ Jorge October 30th, 2005

When Jie told me he would buy an enclosure, I told myself I would also buy one. And true enough, I bought one even before Jie was able to buy one for himself. I got my old 30gb hdd fitted inside the enclosure and made it my own portable disk storage. The timing was perfect because I was due to resign by that time from my previous work. I got my digital files backed up in a flash.

Last friday, I finally bought a DVD writer. It was sort of an impulse buy. I had no plan to buy a writer that day, but I was certain I would buy one before the year ends. The purpose of the enclosure is now maximized. If I want, I can carry my DVD writer via the enclosure and have an instant external DVD writer with me. Aah, the possibilities are endless. ?

I completed reformatting my pc here at home to give way to my new drive. I finished burning 8gb worth of mp3 stored here in my hard disk in just 2 dvds compared to around 15 cds. Ayus.

Pamasko ko na ito sa sarili ko. Solb na solb na ako dito.

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penny October 27th, 2005

Faith Hill’s Fireflies is like a trip down memory lane, so to speak. The song melody would strike as catchy to any country-music lover (me again, for instance). I never tend to listen to the lyric of country melodies, because the first few times I hear them I take delight in listening to the sound. The words would become intelligible soon after. For this piece all I started to hear were the lines“… they were just fireflies to the untrained eye, but i could always tell…” and I would associate it already to a pleasant memory of fireflies. The vicinity of the mathematics building in Diliman had an abundance of them, and much of the first few weeks of our budding romance was set in such scenery.

Though now when I get to listen to the song, it turns out that the story isn’t nearly as relevant to how I initially intended to hear. It’s a very simple but sweet song, about dreams of love before love came, being relayed to the love that was found.
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Before you met me I was a fairy princess
I caught frogs and called them prince
And made myself a queen
Before you knew me i traveled ’round the world
I slept in castles and fell in love
Because i was taught to dream
I found mayonnaise bottles and poked holes on top
To capture tinkerbell
They were just fireflies to the untrained eye
But i could always tell
I believe in fairytales and dreamers dreams like bed sheet sails
And i believe in peter pan and miracles
And anything i can to get by
And fireflies
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Before i grew up i saw you on a cloud
I could bless myself in your name and pat you on your wings
Before i grew up i heard you whisper so loud
“life is hard, and so is love, child, believe in all these things”
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Poetic license… the antecedents of “you” shifts to a different person/being in the last verse.

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AJ Jorge October 27th, 2005

Isa sa mga nagustuhan kong kanta ng Parokya sa latest album nila.
Collaboration ito kasama si FrancisM at si Gloc9.

Title: Bagsakan
Artist: Parokya Ni Edgar

KID
Nandito na si Chito
si Chito Miranda
Nandito na si Kiko
Si Francis Magalona
Nandito na si Gloc 9
Wala syang apelyido
Magbabagsakan dito in 5 4 3 2

Lyrics inside
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AJ Jorge October 27th, 2005

I’ve been meaning to customize my firefox browser the way it was in my previous office. I have to re-download most of the plugins I used to suit my needs. This time, I will take time to list them down so that I can do this again the next time I have to reconfigure my browser. Most of the plugins are just 10-15kb in size. Not much download hog.

Here are my current plugins:

Tabbrowser Preferences
This extension adds GUI options to change some of the hidden tab browser preferences available in Firefox. It additonally provides the following features:

• open URLs in the URL bar and searches from the search bar in new tabs
• open the homepage in every newly created tab
• select tabs by moving the mouse onto them, instead of clicking on them
• moving the tabbar to the bottom of the browser window
• opening URLs from the Extension/Theme Manager and the Help window in new tabs
• opening the throbber in a new tab
• control the focusing/unfocusing of various tab-creating functions, such as the File->New Tab command
• per-tab locking, to force left-clicked links to open in new tabs
• compatibility with Tab Clicking Options
• ability to drag and drop URLs on the new tab button on the tab bar
• ability to control focusing of newly created tabs
• ability to divert URLs away from popup windows (still under development)

AdBlock
Once installed, it’s a snap to filter elements at their source-address. Just right-click: Adblock: done. Filters use either the wildcard character (*) or full Regular Expression syntax. Hit the status-element and see what has or hasn’t been blocked.

Greasemonkey
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of poular sites, are already available in the Greasemonkey script repository at http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts. You can write your own scripts too. Mark Pilgrim’s definitive Greasemonkey guide, diveintogreasemonkey.org will show you how.

MiniT
Adds tab dragging with drop place indicator.

Single Window
Allows Mozilla to simple extension that fully utilizes the built-in tabbed browsing behavior, compatible with Mozilla, Netscape, and Firefox. Single Window has the following options: Enable Single Window Mode (must be enabled for all other options to work) Traps links that would normally open in a new window and opens them in a new tab instead. * Open external links in new tabs. External links can be set to open in a new tab instead of the currently active tab. * Open links with invalid targets in new tabs. Redirects links that point to invalid target frames to new tabs instead of new windows. * Load home page in new tabs. Loads the home page in any new tabs. * Open JavaScript links in new tabs. Redirects JavaScript window.open links to new tabs instead of windows. Requires restart of application to disable this feature.

IE Tab
IE Tab, an extension from Taiwan, features embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This extension is derived from the famous extension IE View, but they are quite different. While IE View always open IE-only pages in newly launched windows of Internet Explorer, IE Tab can open them in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

Session Saver
SessionSaver restores your browser -exactly- as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even things you were typing — they’re all saved. Use the menu to add + remove sessions; right, shift, or middle-clicking will delete. “Simple mode” for peace of mind, or “Expert mode” for advanced flexibility. Just Click. Install. Rad.

Added TextSaver: everything you type, saved (even in frames). Added RemoteSync: session-syncing between browsers (syncs Adblock, too). Added intelligent postData-restore. Added various patches + bugfixes, per discussion in the official support thread.

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AJ Jorge October 26th, 2005

This captures were taken during our UP days. We were trying out the department’s webcam and how to capture pictures. Photos were taken inside the computer room.

testing pa lang

ayan, medyo naka-pose na.

ultimate pose.

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penny October 25th, 2005

Chloe’s Parents courtesy of Ems. (Thanks Ems!)

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penny October 21st, 2005

I went solo this afternoon after leaving school early. Today hasn’t been a good day for me health-wise, and the crowd in DLSU was rowdy today, owing to some event they have that I don’t understand. So I left school and met with a classmate for a while at her condo, then went straight to Greenbelt to grab a bite to eat. I was drooling for Earl Grey since my decaf this morning at Starbucks, and CBTL (The Coffee bean and Tea Leaf) was just the ticket to that. I felt tons better after 3 generous cup-helpings.

One sight irked me as I sipped my tea, munched my greens. I wasn’t really attentive to anyone since I was busy with Darcy-Bennet replays, but this hulk of an executive was blocking the light, and I had to look up. To my larged eyes I saw him pouring out coffee to a wastebin.. up until almost half of his large mug. It took a while to register that he was making room for milk. Gah, wouldn’t it have been more practical to pour into an empty cup and share? He was, after all, with a party of 5-6. Sheesh. Rich people.

And there I was pouring a third cup of hot water into my third brew from the same teabag. In CBTL they use the larger teabags, and had I been at the pleasurable privacy of home that bag would have stretched the entire afternoon. I like my tea fragrant but weak (in taste).
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Ewan ko lang kung may makarelate, pero share ko na din: sobrang sakit na ng tyan ko at dibdib kakapigil tumawa ng malakas dahil sa pangalan ng blog na na-”bloghop” ko kanina: PaperBag Writer.

Explain ko na din. Is-pup kasi ng kanta ng Beatles ito na “Paperback writer”. (ako pa, Beatle-fan din ako, I’m sure some of you are too) Ewan ko ba, nakakatawa sa kin. Ambabaw ko talaga. Isa pa siguro kasi naka-post yung picture nung may-ari ng blog dun sa site nya eh. (Ansama talaga ng ugali ko.) Peace!

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I am currently reliving an obsession on the song “Broken” (Seether with Evanescence vocalist) which is, IMHO, a powerfully emotional song. The (*used-to-be) real-life couple blends voices unusually but fabulously. It’s ironic how the project strained their relationship.

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penny October 20th, 2005

Cropped from here:

Ricardo C.H. del Rosario, of the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Philippines Diliman, is an expert in scientific computation, especially in applied numerical analysis and control theory. He believes in interdisciplinary research, and has spearheaded cooperative ventures with various institutes here and abroad. For instance, the Mathematical Life Sciences Initiative includes not just the Math Department but also the Marine Science Institute and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and aims to use math in solving problems in medicine, physiology and marine biology. Del Rosario is pursuing a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany, modeling the activity of bacteria….

Adviser namin ni Ajay yan… Galing! *aprub*

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AJ Jorge October 20th, 2005

Di ko matiis. Hehe.

First post from the new job. Oh well.

People here are extremely relaxed unlike in my previous job. First time I get to wear maong and t-shirt to work again (at pwede na uli akong mag-hikaw!). Hinanap ko pa yung hikaw na star na sinusuot ko nung asa UP pa kami ni pen. Yung ibang hikaw ko, nangingitim na (puro kasi sila silver). Ano ba panglinis dun?

Since yung shuttle na sinasakyan ko ngayon ay literally from terminal to terminal na, travel time ko ngayon ay 1.5hrs (na dating 1 hour lang) – kasama na dito ang pagtawid ko sa underpass. Dati kasi, pagbaba ko ng shuttle asa harapan na yung building namin. Ngayon kailangan ko pang maglakad ng kaunti. Mga 5mins walk din yun. Di ako nagrereklamo. Walang kaso yun, pagdating ko sa trabaho ng bandang 8.30 am, halos lilima pa lang ang tao at patay pa minsan ang mga ilaw.

Sa ngayon, nag-cu-customize pa ko ng PC ko at nag-aayos ng mga mp3 ko dito. OC kasi ako sa mga digital files ko. Kailangan maayos ang pagkaka-sort nila.

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penny October 18th, 2005

Current book reading: … Dilbert (lol) and Pride and Prejudice (reread)
*curses* Di na ako nakakapagbasa ng librong book. E-book na ang kaibigan ko. Pero nakakapeke ng experience. Iba pa din ang librong book. Hilaw nga ang pakiramdam nuong natapos ko ang HP6 sa handheld.

Nakakapraning naman panuorin itong Red Dragon. Ni-rereject ng utak ko na good guy si Ed Norton vs bad guy Ralph Fiennes. Bwisit. The movie’s gruesome as always, and it works, though, as expected, not as powerful as its first installment.
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Yawn. Nuninuninu. Remember the walking typewriter toon from sesame street?
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Hehe. Kapag ako’y di mapakali sa inis, pinipilit kong magpalit ng iniisip. Usually, this entails pressing a reset button in my head and some pleasant or funny memory comes rushing in.

Katulad ngayon…
- inaantok na ako pero ayoko pa matulog. (bluuuues cluuuuues, blues clues)
- gusto ko nang magpahinga pero gusto ko ding maglaro ng computer game (diablo 2!!!!)
- kelangan ko gumawa ng homework pero an-tsakit-tsakit na ng mata ko (woohoo, sarap ng visine… pero si Weng naiiyak pag nakakakita ng nag-apply ng eyedrops.)
- andaming tumatawag sa mobile ko (mga hilo kayo!) aba eh gabi na! (telebabski… pero ngayon ayoko na hehe)
- gutom ako kaso .. di pwede hahaha (sarap ng cheesecake ni Ate Nyanya!)
- uhaw ako kaya’t ako’y iinom muna…. (glurg glurg glurg… tsahhhh)

Sarap ng tubig.

Tutulog na ako. 6 hours gigising na uli. Nytie nyt na.

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