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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