Learning New Things

I just updated this blog site. I have just added those little cute icons on the right side of the panel. Little by little I am learning new things on simple html coding. Up until now, I haven't got around on learning html code. I am used to look at Visual Foxpro code, because that is what I primary use for work and when I was in collage I used Pascal and C.

I also added a clock just below it. Cool huh. I got that idea from Reno Maniquis.

It's sure is fun playing with html page.
Now, what else could I modify next time? Hmmmm. :-)

Toys of our lives

I recently bought Captain America and Red skull action figure. This is the first time again for many many years now that I have bought a toy for myself. Last time was I think, 9 or 10 years ago.

I was planning to buy this for the longest time now. I was really impress how detailed of the craftmanship for this toy. Specially on the part of the face of Captain America, it is very life like, specially for its small size.

My wife doesn't have anything against it. In fact, a few months ago she even encourages me to buy Superman and a Batman action figure when she saw Julius Babaw on TV showing off his StarWars collection. How nice is that huh. I’m so glad I married a person that could understand me. Coz when I was in highschool and college I used to collect alot of G.I.Joe action figures and vehicles. I would save my lunch money for months just to buy Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.
But my Mother doesn't approved (for my Father its just ok). She said "Ang tanda tanda mo na, naglalaro ka pa ng robot-robot". That really irritates me. But I just controls myself and humbly says that "Hindi po ito robot ma. G.I.Joe action figures po."

And my brother and sisters doesn't helped too. They often teases me when they sees me thinkering with my collection. "Para kang tumatanda ng paurong ah. College ka na naglalaro ka pa nyan." I just keep quite and continue on what I was doing.

Most of the time, if I bought a new one, I would hide it on my backpack as I pass along our sala. And opened it inside my room. That also goes to the comics that I buy. My sister says its a totally waste of my money, specially when she learned how expensive they were (kuripot kasi yung ate kong iyon.).

For me it was not a waste of time or money. On the part of comics, I consider them also as an investment. I said to my self, if I buy an ordinary comics today, maybe in the future I could sell it higher than what I bought it. Specially if it is very rare and in mint condition. Just like the death of Superman issue. I also told to my sibling back then that the first issue of Superman was hundreds of thousands dollars now. And on the part of Toys, aside from being fun to collect, they give me inspiration in life and on my work too. And that is one thing you cannot buy.

iPhone - Beyond iPod

It's January again and it is time for another MacWorld keynote from Steve Jobs. Every time I see him do his stuff on stage and present a new product(that could be either software or hardware) I always get inspired on my work as a programmer. And this time Apple company did it again. Last January 9 they have presented the most advanced mobile hand held device in the world (well that is at least my opinion).

It's the new iPhone.
It is beyond than just a Phone. It is the next big thing happened since the ever popular iPod, coz it is an iPod, a Phone and a internet device roll into one. It also has a built-in google map, widget, safari browser and it all runs on top of Mac OS-X. How cool is that.

You can go to www.apple.com or www.youtube.com (and try the keyword is MacWorld 2007) to watch the video.

Cover or Pin-up?

This is a drawing I recently created. At first, this was intended as the front and back cover of the second issue of Kalayaan comics (I already finished the first issue.).
But now I am having second thoughts on making it just a free pin-up poster inside the second issue.
Or maybe It could be both. I dont know.
I will just make up my mind sooner or later.

Bad guy

Here is Vorgon, one of the Villains that I have created during my collage days. This character is also one of the main character of the comics (Kalayaan) that I am working on.

Happy New Year

First of all. Happy New Year. I hope 2007 will be better to us all than last year.

Here is another old drawing that I made when I was still a student of Gilbert Monsanto at LEARN in SM Megamall. They are called SANDIGAN, a characters created also by Gilbert Monsanto.

UNLOCKER

Have you ever got this annoying windows message?

Before, it always happens to me while I was going to delete a video file in my hard drive that I already have burned to a disc. At first, I thought other system resources was just still using it, or windows just forgot to close it. But even after rebooting. This message still appears.

Well no more. Just go to this site ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ and download a program called UNLOCKER. One thing I like with this software is that it is small(only 192 KB) and easy to download. After installing, it will create an UNLOCK option in you right click when you are in windows explorer.

For more info. just go to their website at ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Better than keepvid

vixy.net
This site is better than keepvid.com. In keepvid.com (which I have posted last Nov. 28,2006) you could download a YouTube video, but only in .flv file. This site (www.vixy.net) you can download a YouTube video file on a variety of file format. You can have them as a .avi(DivX), .mov(MPeg4), .mp4, .3gp and even .mp3 file.
Just like keepvid, it is very straight forward. This site only needs the url of the YouTube file. Copy and paste it to this site and click start to download.

This is much easier, because you just cut off the hastle of downloading a FLV player and installing it to your computer.

FREE STUFF

Free Comics

City of Heroes
This is actually a site of the City of Heroes online computer games. They also published a comics based on their characters that is free to download. This free comics if in PDF format. So you better get a PDF reader first before downloading this comics.
Currently they have a 16 issues that has been published under the Top Cow(Image), but before that they had already published a 12 issues under Blue King publication.


Free Raps Songs

Filipeanut
This is a cool Site that has a FREE COOL COOL Rap Songs all about Filipinos. He is (the Rapper) basically a Filipino that grew-up in the states that is very proud to be a Filipino (my kind of guy). This is a must have song for your collection.

OLD PICS.

I was going through some old stuff last night when I came accross to this picture. This was taken, I think around year 2000 when I was still a student of Gilbert Monsanto at LEARN in SM megamall. With me in the picture is the big guy him self, Whilce Portacio. Founding member of Image comics and a great artist. Also with us is Gilbert Monsanto the headmaster and little old me.




Speaking of known people. I also saw this old pic of me and Andrew E. At that time, I was a huge fan of him. I used to memorised all of his Rap song back then.
I was luck enough to be able to have this pic with him when he was promoting his 3rd or 4th album back then in SM north edsa.

When I look at this pictures, I alway get the notion that I realy gotten realy fat on this past few years. I was realy skinny back then. Now I look like a 5 month pregnant woman. I realy need to get this excess fats off.

Pixelperfect & Easy download

I have recently downloaded and watched Pixel Perfect. It is a tutorial for artist that is using Photoshop to do colors and add special effect. And Im very very much impress. For those artist out there. This is a must see tutorial.
You can download it from http://www.revision3.com which I already have a long time link on the right site of this blog. And once your in there goto Pixelperfect and download the files. Currently there are 8 episodes.

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Hey. Need an easy way to download a Youtube .flv file?
go to this site http://keepvid.com
It's very simple, it's free,absolutely no software to install. Just simply copy and paste the URL of the youtube file and click download.

writetomyblog

I just found a greate site to edit and manage Blog.

writetomyblog.com

This is for the bloggers out there. There are many greate feature in this site. It is like microsoft word on the web that is specialy designed for a blog.

DSL is in the house

We just got installed with BayanTel DSL today. And I might say I'm quite impress.
I've got 2 computers, An aging AMD powered desktop and a 4 year old laptop. But they have gone into the web like The Flash and Quicksilver.
I have measured the speed using this site http://speed.skyinet.net and it registered a whooping 1453.04 kbps. But the technician said that it will go down in a few hours or so.

DSL Connection

This comming week, I will have a DSL connection in our house. I realy need this for my work. Since because for the past 2 months, I am only working at home and sending update of my programs to our office in ortigas. At first, the dial-up connection was tolerable. But recently, it has been sooooo sloooow.
At first, I thought it was just my computer. So I reformat it, but with no luck. It was still as slow as a dying snail. That is also the reason I was not updating this blog more frequently.

Hopefully with the connection it would be lighting fast. The sales agent of BayanTel DSL that I have talked(Yes, were BayanTel. No PLDT in our area) to said that its a 384 kbps download. I know in reality that is not the real/actual speed that consummer would have. That would be on a non peak hours only. But I am still hoping it will be so. But come to think about it, an approximate 200 kbps to 250 kbps is already fine with me.