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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!

Blog Privacy

MK — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:58:32 +0000

If you’re like me, you probably use your laptop for way more than Photoshop, Games, Powerpoints or internet browsing. In the recent months that I’ve owned Anita, she has turned out to probably be the best blogging companion I’ve ever had. My Science and Society teacher, Mrs. Assunta Cuyegkeng that their generation doesn’t understand blogging as a journal is supposed to be your own personal private thoughts but we however spread it for the world to see. Some blogging networks have worked around this by giving users privacy options such as showing posts to a limited number of contacts but that doesn’t insure that whatever you type down doesn’t spread.

My own personal solution to this for people who like the idea of keeping a private journal but aren’t used to handwriting long entries anymore. The solution is MAMP and WordPress. MAMP gives you an easy way to install MySQL APACHE and PHP for your Mac. Once you have MAMP installed you can then simply create a database for your wordpress and install wordpress. You get to blog and rant but still within the comfort and limits of your computer. Your website should only be accessible from your computer or your home network and with simple changes in the port settings you can require visitors (if you want visitors) to enter a password before being able to view any of part of your blog/site

Earth day

MK — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:28:18 +0000

Today is international earth day, I think everyone knows that. I won’t go Al Gore like on this blog entry but I’ll just share my experience with global warming. Before I start can I just say that the Google doodle for earth day looks so nice!

Global warming is really starting to take its toll on tropical countries like here in the Philippines. Summers here are getting extremely warmer even by tropical standards. It really became evident to me when I woke up last night at 11:45pm sweating like a pig from the heat. Last night was the first night I slept with the air-conditioning turned on since we moved in to our house 5 years ago. I hardly ever use the air-conditioning because I try as much as possible to cut down on electricity use (since I’m already on the computer 10 hours a day).

I really don’t understand how people can keep saying that human action is not to blame for global warming. It maybe a natural occurrence but this is happening at a rate that is unnatural. Even if you say its natural, are you just going to let it kill the world population slowly and not try to at the very least delay it one single bit? If there’s something I’ve learned from designing for the web and encountering different problems with different browsers is that when there is always a way to get around things.