In Indie: 08/01/2007

Friday, August 31, 2007

A Broken Picture: Old Floaters(Hold Your Breath)

This poem is an entry from my book named "A Broken Picture" which was a requirement in one of my English class way back in high school (SY: 2000-01).

Old Floaters(Hold Your Breath)

Just when everyone seemed so passionate
Striped stinging insect fasten soaked chemise
Independent f*cking pigs of Malacañan vomit
All you masses learn to hold your breath

You placed me here, I won't be coming down
I'm your precedent, I won't be coming down

Nothing learned from the scab of Plaza Miranda
Inclined phantasm of that cannon was true
Weak singled-out off the pavillion of majority
Cardinal Sin wasn't a pacifist but an advocate

Crack your child, I won't have to feed
Never proffer, I won't have to give

Outspoken Congress manipulated parsimony
Sagacious Senate smoulder in furlough
Bloated AFP serving not the masses but infantry
Hemp some more, clog the tank, hold your breath

Who should serve and who must steal
Line us up and slit wrist. what do I care

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Muse Sing: Today Is Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you! This week in Muse Sing are songs that got the new year flu to it. Flow. Blow. Slow. Mo.

Song: New Year's Prayer 1
Artist: Jeff Buckley
Album: Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk

Song: The New Year
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Album: Transatlanticism

Song: Together We'll Ring in the New Year
Artist: Motion City Soundtrack
Album: Commit This To Memory

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Apache on your Flash Drive

A professional conversation between two not-so-acquainted guys of the webdesigning & PHP programming world.

Them meticulous looking Lokis of however-big position they occupy in their company:
So you PHP? So you RDBMS? Show me your stuff! Here, sit here.

You:
Can I install...

TMLLOH-BPTOITC:
No. No. You can't install something.

U:
But...uhm

TMLLOH-BPTOITC:
Tomorrow, I wanna see that tomorrow. Online. Have it online.

You don't want to be the you in this conversation, right? Well, then, bring out your dusty USB flash drive and install the portable XAMPP to it.

Apache server and MYSQL right away!

Make sure to change the Apache default port 80 to something not equal to 80, I use 69, to avoid conflict because some system may already have the same service running on that port. Config file is named httpd.conf on the ...\xampplite\apache\conf folder. Find this line "Listen 80" and change it to "Listen 69" if you want to run on the same Highway 69 like me. You have to restart the services. Install all your sample works in htdocs and I figure you already know what to do after that because I assume you have already used some Apps like XAMPP on your own system.

Download XAMPP: http://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp

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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Through the Looking Glass

The idea is lens taking lens. Camera and some cheap car accessory I got for less than 30Php at Ace Hardware. Solb!

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Friday, August 24, 2007

This was the fruit

I don't know but I could only remember once that I've eaten the fruit Macopa - Google or Wiki it if it's not how you call it in your place. I can't even recall how I got it dunked into my Colgate fresh mouth. It's that mango tasting and colored like the photographed fruit on the left. But what I'm holding on the photo is not that fruit. It's that fruit that I named the other fruit after.

Yesterday, my God's gift, so they call it somewhere, brought in one of this fruit from her boss who came from Davao. I know I've seen this fruit sold in the streets of Cebu but, no offense to mother nature, it never tickled my salivary glands in anyway. I'm never a fruit person. Some fruits I enjoy are lychee and mango and that's it. Well, in fairness to mother nature, this fruit tasted like I might be walking the streets of Cebu looking for one, but, probably not. No. Because by then I would find myself in the nearest Thirsty franchise queueing for a 29Php fruit shake - that'd be lychee, yes!

This post is just to help me to remember that that MANGOsteen I know is actually Macopa. Just because it tasted like mango!!!!

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Collector by John Fowles

Some lines from this book...

I looked in the mirror today and I could see it in my eyes. They look much older and younger. It sounds impossible in words. But that's exactly it. I am older and younger. I am older because I have learnt, I am younger because a lot of me consisted of things older people had taught me. All the mud of their stale ideas on the shoe of me.

The new shoe of me.

I got this book from a thrifthouse. All pages are browned and are crispier than anything that's crispy. Crispier than your Chickenjoy Value Meal even. It's hard enough to turn from a page to another as the pages deteriorates on their own - dedications and ISBN page destroyed!

My first exposure to John Fowles was The Magus and it was moving as hell. More moving than the movie Se7en. And this book, The Collector, is moving as well.

John Fowles is a master in storytelling and in his own style. Such evil in such a thin book. The story is a two-way play - you hear from both sides and decide which is which. He makes you WANT and then makes you despise it later. You choose your own devil. I pick Amanda...read it and tell me who's yours.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Muse Sing: F*cking Determined

This weeks Muse Sing is the f*cking determined bands. Filipino artists who were there but were barely recognized, or was I just too young to miss the recognition. Well, f*ck recognition and let's get f*cking determined and party like it's '94, or earlier.

Song: Motspeed(Sa Karimlan)
Artist: Backdraft
Album: The Shadowland Deep

Song: Ode To The Common Man
Artist: The Breed
Album: Free

Song: Slip
Artist: Tame The Tikbalang
Album: Forever Shall Be

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Feast, the best gore movie since...

Feast is a fast gorefest between humans and some I don't-know-where-it-came-from creatures that'll surely twist some stomach as it did to my girlfriend who almost threw up, almost, really. It's got some injections of funny and sexy, aliens making out sexy, on many occassions but trust me when I say the gore in this one is the actual gore that you'd want to watch all over again in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. From the simple catsup spewing on camera lenses, or booties and boobies, to limbs lost and to the simple yellow maggots on the sink is worth every blink you save just to see the next frame.

If you think it's corny to watch some Predator-looking creatures terrorizing in a desert pub, well, think again, 'cause I'd be laughing at you if you still do after Feast.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

WIKIPILIPINAS: The Hip 'n Free Philippine Encyclopedia

The Philippine Wiki Revolution has started! The very famous W3 encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is now in the Philippines. Screamin' Free! and Hip!

Oh, the Filipino pride. Such...such. Oh.

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

The Viral Train

Bloggers unite! Join the linking train that'll surely up your ranking in Technorati, Alexa, Google PR, SERP (Search Engine Result Page), among others.

Instructions:

1.) Copy and paste the entire matrix of “ViralTags” below.

2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “ViralTags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice containing your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a maximum of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.

3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “ViralTags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “ViralTags” below.

4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

============== Copy and Paste below this line ================

Host Tag: In Indie

Important: Once I get a ping back from you, I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as “Host Tag” here, replacing one of the “ViralTags” from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have from your anchor text. If everybody who copies and pastes from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. Remember, the sooner you participate, the more links you will receive!

================ Copy and Paste from Above this line ==========

Pass the chiggy-chugging train on! Salamat kay Nostalgia Manila for this one.

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Monday, August 06, 2007

Oriental Negros as One of the Best Island in the World

The world is looking at my home. Here's an article I grabbed from Negros Island Online

The eastern part of the Negros Island known as the Oriental Negros was chosen as one of the best islands in the world to live on as featured by Islands Magazine in its July to August 2007 issue.

Islands were rated by its weather (Island called it the flip flop quotient, the number of days you can wear flip flops), number of expats, cost of housing, ease of migration and the price of the local beer.

Here is the score card of Oriental Negros.

Flip-Flop quotient: 3
Expat to locals: 1:1,000
Population of Main Town, Dumaguete: 102,265
Languages Spoken: English, Cebuano, Hiligaynon
Percent who speak English: 90
Get there from U.S.: via Manila, 70 minute flight to Dumaguete
Closest Hospital: Dumaguete City
Price of San Miguel Beer: $1.00
Ease of Migration: Moderate

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Muse Sing: Shadows Fall - Threads Of Life

This weeks Muse Sing is special. It's going to be all "Threads of Life." The cool new album of Shadows Fall.

Since "The Art of Balance," Shadows Fall's bravery in showcasing great improvements in their songwriting has risen to such a level that you'd like them to fail. Being a hardcore-plus-metal band while they were starting up, Shadows Fall is one of those unafraid musical warriors whose got the balls to step out of the box and add something old to win back the old timers and show the new kids how it was. And so much for the expectations of the lovers and the not, Shadows Fall once again is successful in their crusade. Releasing, yet again, an album that'll surely be part of every metalhead's collections.

Song: Failure Of The Devout

Song: Another Hero Lost

Song: Forevermore

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Sunday, August 05, 2007

MPDS: Medical & Pharmaceutical Distributing System

The layouting is done. Everything's in its proper place, all sample schemas, the sizes and the colors are teacher and peers okied. A go signal for me to start with the real programming.

I've been the pretentious hardcoding genius ever since. Writing in every text editors. No WYSIWYG stuff. From layouting to programming I'm that crazy. I start out from scratch with the ever reliable Notepad then switching to Notepad++, just so I could see the line numbers, when those HTML needs PHP.

Some screenshot of the schemas already PHP-ed and MySQL-ed:
Products listing
Product listing for printing
Product information

And, yes, it's my first time to use constraints in SQL. It's hard but when tables are already linked to its right partner table the burden of linking them through query is reduced. All business rules that should be satisfied are defined from within your tables that lessens the WHEREs and the ANDs and all the SUBs. Here's a sample table with constraints.

CREATE TABLE `territories` ( `territories_ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `areasFK_ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '', `territories_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '', `territories_quota` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`territories_ID`), FOREIGN KEY (`areasFK_ID`) REFERENCES areas(`areas_ID`) )ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.zip

I'm not really a fan of this HP book, or the other books, neither a loser for the movies.

I'd rather be the proudest geek for "The Onion Field" or "2010: The Year We Make Contact," both book and movie. Because, someday, it'd be cooler to mention the unknowns than the what-have-beens in the mainstream. But what's "cool" is not the real reason why I dislike HP. It's a personal reason that I share with many others who prefered the "others."

Well, anyway, this whole mojakojombo! is about me having a copy of the book. Thanks to a long lost friend who forwarded it to me. I have it, as part of my collections, in my untouched eBooks folder.

parakatis_at_gmail_dot_com me if you still don't have it.

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Friday, August 31, 2007

A Broken Picture: Old Floaters(Hold Your Breath)

Muse Sing: Today Is Happy New Year

Apache on your Flash Drive

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Through the Looking Glass

Friday, August 24, 2007

This was the fruit

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Collector by John Fowles

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Muse Sing: F*cking Determined

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Feast, the best gore movie since...

Saturday, August 11, 2007

WIKIPILIPINAS: The Hip 'n Free Philippine Encyclopedia

Thursday, August 09, 2007

The Viral Train

Monday, August 06, 2007

Oriental Negros as One of the Best Island in the World

Muse Sing: Shadows Fall - Threads Of Life

Sunday, August 05, 2007

MPDS: Medical & Pharmaceutical Distributing System

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.zip

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