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WordPress 2.9: Carmen

MK — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:51:34 +0000

Matt and the wordpress development team has just released wordpress 2.9 which they have named “carmen” today. To those of you who only know of wordpress as a social blog community, this may not be a big deal but for those who’ve known wordpress even before the advent of WordPress.com would probably be eager to see what’s different.

I haven’t clicked the update link on my wordpress admin panel yet (I’m waiting for a compatibility check with my plugins) but a lot of the new features are really worth being excited about.

Global Trash/ Undo – I actually have mixed feelings about this. I’ve always wanted an undo feature in wordpress but I never thought it could be implemented in the same way as a trash bin. It does go hand-in-hand with the trend of doing everything on the web.
Image editor – This is something really big specially if you work with wordpress as much as I do (and if you use it with newspaper/magazine sites the way I use it with the GUIDON and G).
Easy Video embedding – This would be a great help to those who like sharing youtube posts a lot but I wonder if the code will be xhtml valid afterwards?

I’ll probably try this out on my offline installation of wordpress tonight before I upgrade any of the wordpress blog installations I have . If you wanna know more about wordpress 2.9 check WordPress.org.

December all ready?

MK — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:33:29 +0000

Unfortunately I’m not ready . Odd as Im really not feeling the whole christmas vibe yet but I do like the cold mornings . Is it just me of time really is moving faster and faster.

The GUIDON EB race started a few weeks back which prompted me to put training into a hiatus while focusing more on webdesign and press rather than dancing. I still love dancing but I really have to put it on hold, graphics and web design are still of course my first love.

Speaking of graphics on the web, Tata made a post about this a while back. In the good old days when PHP was just starting to creep its ways to the regular filipino web designer as a helpful tool and WordPress was still called b2. Back then we seem to all worship and adore sites like Aethereality.net, Blinding-light.com and Daydreamgraphics.com. I wanted to reminisce and take a look at them and well I sort of saw that many of them have become stuck in the past.

All three of the sites mention above have not been updated in more than a month. Two are still using the sort of fan-girlish anime type layouts we all used to use when we started out. Daydream graphics has embraced wordpress as a CMS and let go of its home grown database of tutorials and layouts but well I no longer worship the layouts that are posted there. On the sidenote, the only premade layout I did and submitted to aethereality is still the last updated pop-up layout available.

When everything goes your way

MK — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:08:47 +0000

That’s the robot we made from Lego Mindstorms last thursday for Computer Science 30 class. I think it worked well even though our computer hanged 4 seconds into the first movement instruction. Still it was a lot of fun and I think our group is a good team since we’ve got the least to revise on our drafts for our group research paper.

For some reason everything seems to be going so well lately. I’m tired alot and I get sleepy a lot during statistics class but I’m getting through everything pretty well. I dunno I’m just in such a happy mood this semester! Everything is just going so well.

I also got back in the GUIDON! Finally after re-applying 4 times I got my job back! The GUIDON sure has changed though, not in a bad way but in a good way. A lot of the things I wish we’re there specially for the webteam is actually being done now and my co-staffers are all so brilliant! I haven’t felt surrounded by colleagues who can actually speak my geek language for a very long time!

Tomorrow’s gonna be a party day, I have the ACTM 1st GA from 430-6 then from 6pm onwards the G online magazine launch! Can’t wait!

Who says summer is fun?

MK — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:52:08 +0000

Well, summer is actually fun for the most part but when you’ve got three subjects and they all have requirements due and tests due in one week which at the same time is the same week that all your organizations and extra-curricular activities decide to have their requirements due!

Business statistics is my biggest problem right now cause my teacher really can’t teach. He just stands their in front of the class and laughs his head off the whole day. Its the same feeling I got when I was taking up accounting a few semesters ago where the teacher really wasn’t helping and I had to learn all by myself.

Statistica actually took away all the fun feelings I had left over from the planning seminar the ACTM and Ieft me groggy the entire week.

Besides that I’ve been really pushing myself to finish my GUIDON application requirements, which I’ve been doing during histo 165 class (thank god no one really cares what notes your typing down on your computer). I really hope my application passes, here’s a look at my application requirements.

Redesign of the GUIDON online

Help the rice crisis!

MK — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:00:32 +0000

I got this from my friend. If you’d like to help the rice crisis and update your vocabulary as well visit Freerice.com.

40 pesos for a bottle of C2

MK — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:37:48 +0000

I was at my cousin’s graduation yesterday afternoon at the PICC. Before I continue, I’d like to say congratulations to my cousin and his fellow UST College of Engineering batchmates.

It was a long ceremony and I found myself going outside the plenary hall every now and then because of the extremely cold air-conditioning. I decided to refresh myself with a drink after my 3rd or 4th walk out with something from the caterer that was stationed at the corridor.

I think the caterer was Via Maria’s and it was a big rip off. I asked for a bottle of C2 and they complied by giving me one of those smaller bottles of C2. What makes it bas is they charge 40 php for a small bottle of C2! 40 pesos!!! That’s like 1 dollar for an extremely small bottle of C2 Iced green tea!