September 2005
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Enrollment Mishaps
Yesterday was our enrollment and it was very disorganized… as usual. As early as Sunday, I already had my partial schedule. Initially my class would start at 10:30 am and ends at 4:30 pm. There wasn’t a break in between classes and I didn’t want to bypass my lunch so I decided to move my [...]
Create Your Own Art @ Artpad
I bumped to this website and found this cool Flash program that enables you to create art instantly. Look at my abstract painting below. That was finished in 5 minutes. You could probably paint some nice illustrations using that program or abstract painting in seconds. Try the brush tool and paint splash tool for different [...]
ID-DSL
PLDT launched ID-DSL on September 15 featuring very low overseas calling rates. ID-DSL stands for International Dialing for DSL. When using their proprietary dialing software Voicepad, you pay only 8 cents a minute for all Small Biz plans, plan 3000 and plan 2500. You pay 12 cents a minute when using plan 1995 and plan [...]
UK Broadband Advances to 24 Mbps
The 24 Mbps broadband service is worth £24 (US $42.84) per month, and here are the benefits: Three (3) times faster than the closes competitor in the UK Allows 1.3 Mbps upstream, about 5 five times quicker than any other service provider in the UK. I really envy other countries for state of the art [...]
Maxima Enim, Patientia Virtus
Maxima enim, patientia virtus — that’s the Latin for Patience is the greatest virtue. In French, Patience est une grant vertu. “Patience is a virtue. The ability to wait for something without excessive frustration is a valuable character trait.” This quotable quote was has been traced back to Piers Plowman (1377). It’s very true because [...]
Combat Robots
I’ve just read the online edition of The Korea Times and there’s one article about Seoul building front-line combat robots. I thought, “This is insanity.” Robots in battles along with human soldiers? It sounds so familiar. Wait… I think I’ve seen this in movies. Uhm… I think I’ve seen similar stuffs in Ghost in a [...]
Ending Microsoft’s Cowboy Spaghetti Code
Having studied Total Quality Management this quarter, I’m aware that Microsoft is notorious for not implementing the processes that would produce the best quality output. Problems could be always patched over anyway. Microsoft’s softwares, let alone Windows, are historically known to be vulnerable to plethora of bugs. So what gives? One remarkable person stirred several [...]