Pacman Christmas Tree

This is, I guess, the coolest Christmas tree I think I’ve ever seen. Pac-Man and his ghostly pals have been reproduced in this giant holiday light display in downtown Madrid at Nuevos Ministerios. The “tree” features a fully-animated version of the classic arcade game, rendered across thousands of colored LEDs.

Yehey! Food Tours for Bloggers

Yehey.com and the Ayala Malls are inviting 100 bloggers (only) in Trinoma Food Tour for Bloggers in Trinoma Food Court this December 13, 2007, Thursday from 2:00 - 7:00 p.m. For more information, you can visit the Yehey.com.

M/V Doulos Hits the Phi again

I checked out the famous M/V Doulos yesterday, hoping that I could find some awesome books which aren’t sold at any bookstore here at the Phi. And, I also knew that this would be the last time that the ship would dock here in the Philippines, since it will be decommissioned in 2010, so I grabbed the opportunity to see what the ship fuzz was all about.

Inside the ship, you can find volumes and volumes of books being sold. They also have CDs, Cassettes, Coloring Books, Souvenir items, Crossword Puzzles, Planners, and Stuffed toys. They even sell Ice Cream and some light snacks.

As far as I could remember, M/V Doulos is part of a German effort to bring “good books for all”. It is said that she is the oldest active passenger line (well, technically she is no more a passenger ship bring souls from one end of the world to the other, but rather she brings forth kindlers of souls from one end to the other), according to their website.

The said ship arrived at the ports of Manila last 29^th of November 2007, and according to one of my friends; they will be here until the 19th of February 2007. They will be at the South Harbor Port of Manila until the 23rd of December 2007 and after that day they will sail and stop in to Subic, maybe until February 19 of 2008.

27 Dresses of Katherine Heigl

Definitely, guys would love to see Katherine Heigl (better known as “Izzie” in Grey’s Anatomy) changing clothes, so they may be interested in her upcoming flick, 27 Dresses.

Katherine Heigl will topline the romantic comedy 27 Dresses. Written by The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, the film will be directed by Anne Fletcher.

According to some sources, She plays here as a woman who has been a bridesmaid 27 times but is still unmarried. She finds out her sister is going to marry the man that she herself loves.

Being a guy, I hate chick flicks movie but still I am going to watch this movie because I love Dr. Izzie Stevens… and I am sure that Heigl will do well in this movie. Apparently, the actress has been courted for more roles ever since she signed on to do Grey’s Anatomy. Cheers for Katherine!

Brawl at Araneta

If you love brawling then mark the 9th of December 2007 on your calendar for an event that you will never want to miss. Platinum Fighting Productions took great efforts to gather the world’s best MMA fighters and set them into a collision course at the Araneta Coliseum, Philippines. It will start at 1pm.The fighters are:

• Koji Oshi (Barnett) vs. Karen Darabdeyan (Gokor)
• Yuki Kondo (Barnett) vs. August Wallen (Gokor)
• Renato “Babalu” Sobral (Barnett) vs. Rodney Faverus (Gokor)
• Jeff Monson (Barnett) vs. Hakim Gouram (Gokor)
• Ginele Marquez (Barnett) vs. Amanda Buckner (Gokor)

For morere info, you can watch the videos at PFP website.

Division Versus Table

Since I started designing websites in 2005 I have knew nothing other than for any of my web page layouts. But now 2 years on it seems I have to learn it all again. There’s no other job I can think of that has you learning something new every day, and I do mean everyday guaranteed.

The world of web design and website programming is changing vastly, it seems every time I turn the computer on I have at least 5 or 6 different emails about how Google is changing or how XHTML and web 2.0 is the way forward, every day there’s something new.

To keep up with standards it is now common to create all pages compliant with XHTML Strict 1.1 which uses and CSS and it is always best practice to make a site comply to www.w3c.org standards. It is also thought that your website being compliant could help with search engine rankings, true? Well I'm not sure but it certainly wouldn't harm to make your pages compliant with today’s standards.

Is Div better than Table? Well I do actually believe the div tag is better but I think it's a matter of personal preference more than anything else. The div tag to me seems a lot cleaner, more structured and certainly more modern.

Pinoy Big Briber

While surfing the net, i came across in this site Pinoy Big Briber, by the Black and White Movement. Just go click and visit the site, and vote if you want President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be evicted. Just be sure to read the violations. i really like the concept of this stuff. hahaha. Nice!

Graphic design software

In this fast growing technological era, as they call it, the element of graphic designing cannot be denied to be one of the deals. The concept of graphic designing is nothing but to present visual communication using topography and images to provide relevant and useful present information to attract people. With the graphic designing tools, you can create an interesting mix of presenting various kinds of information in attractive formats to increase the overall users’ base. The element of graphic design is always presents in our lives in many ways. Whether you read a book, you will come across many illustrations and designing, watching a movie will give you lots of animation and other interesting patterns to enjoy, which simply explains the usability of graphic designing.

While there are of course a lot to choose from, the Adobe Creative Suite is extremely popular among designers. This package includes an array of software which will help you to generate better graphics for your websites.

• Photoshop, for photo retouching and creating graphic elements;
• Illustrator, for creating illustrations such as logos;
• InDesign, for page and book layouts;
• Flash, for creating animated, interactive websites;
• Dreamweaver, for website development.

The Corel Graphics Suite and Quark are also popular for design work.

Change the adminsitrator password using your limited account

Have you forgotten the password into your administrators account, or you are one of your company’s bad asses and wants to access the PC via administrators account but you cant cause you don’t know what the password. Now you can! All you have to do is to reset the password of the administrator account by just follow the step below.

1. In your limited access account. Click Start and go to Run.
2. Type in "cmd" in the dialog box.
3. A black window should pop up with some text. Enter the phrase " net user ".
4. You should see all of the accounts on your computer. Select your target account that you want to hack.
5. Once you have the username of the account, type net user ACCOUNT *". So for an account named "Administrator", simply type "net user Administrator *". Make sure you don't forgot the asterisk ‘*’ at the end.
6. You will now be prompted to enter a new password. Even though when you enter text, you can't see what you are typing, this is called masking. Enter your desired password for this account, hit enter, and confirm the new password.
7. Hit enter, and now log out from your limited access account. And try logging-in in the administrators account.

This may or may not work, depending on the version of Windows you are running.

Fire in San Diego

There were two major wild fires in San Diego, I’m not even sure if they have the same origin. The so called Harris Fire started at Harris Ranch and moved down near the Otay Ranch and Chula Vista area.

The Witch Fire started at Witchcreek and spread around neighboring areas in Ramona. And it moved more and more to the west through Poway, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Santa Fe and neighboring areas. I live in Rancho Penasquitos which is beside Rancho Bernardo and Poway and was ordered a mandatory evacuation on Monday morning.

Although wind speeds have decreased, they said they said the peak of the speed as well as the temperature highs will be at sometime 3pm today.

Right now the fire has reached near the Del Mar areas already and we are still waiting up to when we can go back home and see the the status of everything.

Joke Barrage 4

Amo: kelan lang tayo bumili ng toothpick, bakit naubos agad?

Maid: ewan ko po mam, kapag ako po ang gumamit sinosoli ko naman ah!

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Pedro: Anong pulutan nyo kahapon sa birthday mo?

Juan: Pata!

Pedro: Wow! Anong klaseng pata?

Juan: PATA galan ng kwento!

Joke Barrage 3

Let's have some Vocabulary

Predicate = pakawalan mo ang pusa
dedicate = pinatay ang pusa
Devastation = sakayan ng bus
persuading:Unang kasal
Depress = and nagkasal sa persuading
defense:ginamit na pangsulat sa kontrata sa persuading na kinasal ng depress
It depends = kainin ang bakod
contemplate = kulang ang pinggan
tenacious:sapatos na pang-tennis
beehive:magpakatino ka!!!
CD-ROM:tingnan mo ang kwarto
defense = ang bakod
defer = ang balahibo
deflate:ang plato
devalue = susunod sa letrang V
dilemma = brown-out ah!!!
July = nagsinungaling ka ba?

iPod's can save lives

A group of Physicians are using iPods to improve their listening skills these days, while some people say that “too much iPod can cause hearing loss”.

A previous research shows that doctors get an average of only 40% correctly in identifying heart sounds. Wow, isn’t that awful when your doctor said that everything is ok while there is really something wrong - he just didn’t hear it properly.

So a new research was conducted involving 149 general internists listened 400 times to five common heart sounds during a 90-minute session using iPods. And as the result says, the average score doubled to 80%. Wow, thanks to iPod. Right? For more read it here.