September Ender

Pardon me for this post. I'm just gonna squeeze it in to round up my total posts to 20 for the month of September. I got 6 posts on my first month and 14 on my second. Twenty for the third is not at all a bad growth, is it?

It's Octoberfest tomorrow! Oh, yeah!

Wikipedia says:

The Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September and early October. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year.

We, Filipinos, Octoberfest harder dito sa Pinas!

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NU107 Rock Awards 2007

It's that time of the year again when Philippine Rock 'n' Roll heroes get the recognition they f*cking deserve! It's NU107's Rock Awards once again! Give your favorite band a tag by clicking on the beautiful digital flyer below.

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Weekend Apps Change

So, after days of trying to fix my USB problem, I decided to reformat my Windows XP partition when the same problem plagued my other new USB. The new USB was given another life. Saved. And cheers to the old for it will probably end up in the dusty corners of the already dusty and useless side of the room. Bringing the "write-protect" problem along.

Because Globe and Smart Bro was decent enough to turn me off from subscribing to their services because I live in a boardinghouse, I made a trip to the fastest cheapest internet cafe' in town(infront of Hotel Sogo Cebu) to download new stuff for my Windows Vista older brother.


...with Adobe Photoshop, I'm on!

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Paypal, finally!

The petition finally paid-off. Now we can Paypal in the Philippines! Receive and send cash and purchase online or maybe go bidding at eBay. Nice. Nice. :)

Read about this from Yugatech (Send & Receive payments via Paypal in the Philippines)

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Gambit, Marvel's new bad guy

Being a Marvel comics and trading cards collector growing up, learning about Gambit shifting sides from superhero to supervillains is a bit shocking. A bit shocking because it's clear, back then, that it IS Gambit's boots, he must be examining, like vultures, the deathland of X-Mens, on one of Marvel Universe Mystery's trading card series.

A post from Wizard Universe cleared my hypothesis.

Move over Magneto, hit the deck Doctor Doom—there’s a new breed of bad guy in the Marvel Universe. With the aforementioned pair lying low, the Kingpin ousted from power and most of the heroes focused on battling one another, a motley crew of also-rans, new faces and long-dormant threats has emerged to fill the vacuum of evil...

...THE MARAUDERS
The X-Men have found themselves under siege of late not only from familiar foes, but once-trusted friends as well. The Marauders combine the worst of both worlds, with former teammates like Gambit, Mystique and Sunfire standing shoulder to shoulder with sworn enemies Exodus, Random and Scalphunter.

“Gambit is going back to his roots in the worst possible way,” laments X-Men writer Mike Carey. “Hanging with Sinister and the Marauders—it’s like ‘Mutant Massacre’ all over again, except this time he’s got a really twisted agenda that’s all his own.”

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Adsense payouts through Western Union Quick Cash

Finally, the answer to lost checks in post office and weeks of waiting, Adsense publishers from the Philippines can now get their payouts thru Western Union.

Read the instructions on how to receive your AdSense payments thru Western Union.

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How to enable a write-protected USB?

No. No buttons or switches in the USB Flash. It was last used in an internet cafe. Both Windows and Linux(Ubuntu) could not format the disk.

Second question in my mind that would be helpful in solving my problem is: How to change access/permission in a write protected USB flash?

This post should be crawled in by robots from all the WWW's search engines.

MESSAGE IN A BLOG: To all technical guys, please do type the keywords(from my questions) and provide solutions. I'll be googling ang yahooing until I get this fixed.

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In Flames - Abnegation

Hope Bam Margera won't cast digital beer bottles at me for being too happy and stealing his filthy mp3 player to stream the new song "Abnegation" by In Flames here on my blog (Click play here).

...yet more of In Flames working on their new album.






No. He wouldn't. :)

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Validating Email Address in PHP

For the serious webmaster in you, receiving a wrongly formatted email address from your site's newsletter subscription is a pain in the neck. If only you could be there to check every subscription and validate it before heaping it up to your database.

In PHP you could always act like you're there to check by defining a valid email formatting rule like the function below:

function validEmail($str){
      return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}

To start checking, pass the value of the inputted email address from the subscription form to the function together with a simple true or false condition.

if (validEmail($_POST['email'])==FALSE){
      echo 'Some error message here';
}else{
      /* Some SQL statement here to add the email address to your database */
}

Now, the only problem you might still bump into is a correctly formatted email address that doesn't actually exist. Tomorrow, I'll tell you how to Check if an Email Address exists.

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Muse Sing: Slipping Away with No Umbrella

In this rainy and cold days of September, getting warm, or hot wet, and lazy in bed with a soothing music no one other but, the only, Cynthia Alexander could paint is like nirvana if I were a meditating karmic bald guy or sanctity if, again, I were a kneeling, cross faith-ed, Jesus wafer eating good guy among many other sky hopers. This week's Muse Sing, step back Barbie and Kitchie, is all Cynthia Alexander's Insomnia & Other Lullabyes.


Song: Malaya
Artist: Cynthia Alexander
Album: Insomnia & Other Lullabyes


Song: Those Days
Artist: Cynthia Alexander
Album: Insomnia & Other Lullabyes


Song: Comfort in Your Strangeness
Artist: Cynthia Alexander
Album: Insomnia & Other Lullabyes

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Poultry Rocks

Most fowls always taste like fowl. This fowl though tasted like Koreans. It's Korean-style fowl cooking you get for 75Php at Ayala Food Choices. How many times have I eaten this sizzling plate? Couldn't count. Ever seen a Korean eating it? Haven't.


Koreans love Pinoy's Adobo!!!

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The SEO Song

This song's for you! Benj Arriola singing his SEO heart out.


Song lyrics and actual post

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The Weekend is a Landfill

Going provincial on a weekend wasn't as enjoyable as when I was 17. The establishments I used to hangout were either burnt, which was a businessman tactic in Dumaguete city, or closed. This "loyalty" factor in Oriental Negros' consumers are a businessman's pain-in-the-ass that they would opt to burning so they could introduce new "stuff" when Negrenses forget to remember the ashes of how they used to live. Get this, Milkmaid, long after it was scrapped in other markets was still being distributed in the island. If you are a businessman with Judy Ann Santos in mind to market your new evaporada, how would you wanna bury the old stuff? And, no, giving out free samples doesn't work here.

I stayed home and crunch the weekend away with television. Cable tv here doestn't have the expensive channel blockade yet so browsing was still enjoyable.

Channel MYX: Playing in MYX Live was Pupil, the already very melodic band fronted by former Eraserheads main-man Ely Buendia. Wow! The new album definitely sounded cool. With band members shifting duties on the vocals and the music is just very steady with riffs flying over the room "owned" by The Dawn's vocalist Jet Pangan. I could even hear some Mars Volta-ish intro in one of the songs but that's just so far away genre-wise. But who knows...

Channel MTV: Parokya Ni Edgar was captured by the poorly-moving cameras of MTV Sessions. In fairness to the band, who after 13 years of playing still seems to be enjoying what they do best - play live and say funny things. But, to say the truth, I'm more on the old trippings of PNE. OH YEAH! Celebrity Deathmatch of talkshow hosts. Tina Fey! Tina Fey! Tina Fey!

Channel ETC: Saturday Night Live is always my favorite TV. A television is not a television without it.

Channel Pentagon Channel: The Home of the Brave, eh? When advertising in arms business is stale, this is where you get the catalogue. Bin Laden is sure watching.

Channel Solar: FIBA Europe playing via satellite. Spain's Gasol making easy turnovers. Great. Loyalty check, coachy!

Channel Movie Channels(HBO, Cinemax, etc.): Anne Hathaway on Ella Enchanted! Hard on! Hard on! Hard on! No!

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JavaScript Objects: Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are arrangements of characters that form a pattern that can then be used against strings to find matches, make replacements, or locate specific substrings.

This is the first time that I didn't have to learn a thing by myself. Finally learnt something from school and it's only a month before I really have to say goodbye to the school days.

The following JavaScript snippets are posted to my Pownce account during an actual classroom discussion and examination over an unauthorized internet access.

<script>
var re = /JS*/ig;
var str = "cfdsJS *(&YJSjs 888JS";
var resultArray = re.exec(str);

while(resultArray){
document.writeln(resultArray[0]);
resultArray = re.exec(str);
}

document.write("<br />");

var regExp = /\s\*/g;
var srt = "This *is *a *text *string";
var resultString = srt.replace(regExp,'-');
document.writeln(resultString);
</script>

http://pownce.com/parakatis/notes/711834/

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Celebrating Philippine freshwaters

Greenpeace launches photo contest

Manila, September 2007--Greenpeace today launched a photo contest with the theme “Celebrating Philippine freshwaters and looking at the threats.” The contest aims to bring people together to celebrate and protect our important freshwater sources. Photographers and photography enthusiasts from all over the Philippines are invited to join this competition.

Greenpeace is looking for dramatic photographs that document why our country’s precious freshwater resources must be protected. Entrants may submit photos that celebrate the beauty of our rivers, streams, lakes, springs, groundwater reservoirs, etc, or which expose how these freshwater sources are threatened by pollution and waste, or scarcity and drought, thereby making access to clean water difficult.

All photographs must depict freshwater or freshwater sources in the Philippines and must have been taken by a Filipino or a Philippine resident between January 1 to September 28, 2007. Deadline for submission of entries is September 28, 2007.

At least 20 finalists will be chosen, and prizes of PHP30,000, PHP20,000, and PHP10,000 will be awarded to the first, second, and third prize winners respectively.

For more details please visit: www.greenpeace.org.ph/photocontest

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Get out, Chicken Farters!

Tootsie and I picked up one of this really thin pizza from this oh-so-very-expensive franchise from somewhere and a whole fried chicken to fill up our oh-so-picky digestive bags just so a birthday would feel like a happy birthday.

Everything went well until the sleeping minutes when you have to do this lip touching thingy. Seconds before that I shoot one silent "butt air". That air-conditioned the room pretty fast. The whole four corners of the room smelled like how a butt air should smell but not to my sleepy partner.

*Mwuah*

You farted and it's chicken!

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Muse Sing: Abbreviation on High!

This week's Muse Sing are bands who love to emphasize who they are. BIG letters for a name that is. The ones who'd write M.U.S.I.C. for "Must Use Sex In Caution."


Song: F.Y.B.
Artist: POT
Album: Remastered



Song: The Missing Frame
Artist: AFI
Album: Decemberunderground



Song: For You and You Alone
Artist: WDOUJI
Album: Ground Zero

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Huwag Bumili ng Manila Standard

My aunt was once an OFW. She was employed as a cook of a Filipina and former Consul General of the Philippines in Hong Kong(Circa 1999 or a little earlier). Her pay was lesser than any OFW in HK. But that is not the sentiment of this post because I've long, with my mom, given up the attempt to bring "justice." She was, in anyway, not supportive of the effort.

PRESENTDAY Newsflash: Malu Fernandez is still employed after writing these?


I'm joining the boycott then...


Strike! Boycott! Strike! Boycott!
Oh yeah! I've been waiting for too long to use that screaming lines from a Sepultura song. Just bringin' the HAPPY back.

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Treading on Tender Feet

I'm torn. That's the ick-iest post opener I could coin after all the decisions I've made lately. The decision to work on OUR school project alone(doing everything), commit to a job offer and indecision to find a new boarding house(still no word from Globe about my Plan 999, must be the location, should be). These are major things that could alter my universe if I happen to pick poorly.

Body check: Everything's fine except for some muscle spasms due to my intolerance to moving air - electric fan.

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Google AdSense: Hybrid Ad

I first seen this so-called hybrid ad from my Camp Chicosci website. It caught my eyes but not my curiousity because maybe I was comfortable seeing the algorithm changes that Google does day after day. I even thought, well, this could be my doing because it has become my habit to stick two kinds of Google ads which minus the "Ads by Google" text line just looks like the hybrid one.

Reading about it from Yugatech made me curious and hope one day I could write my own "Hybrid" experience too. Well, yesterday was my lucky day because I managed to take a screen shot of it when it appeared right here, in this blog.



Notice the highlighted part. Clicking it will swap a new ad changing what is already shown above it without leaving the page. That should also mean that no money is being generated unless of course your visitor clicks on the actual ad. Good thing about this is, well, it makes your ad more relevant. The fruit thing is because this ad appeared below an entry entitled "This was the fruit."

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