Education and Liberty

Posted: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:02:43 +0000

Source: “Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” – James Wilson (Of the Study of the Law in the United States, Circa 1790) ...

Protect Your Personal Property Rights

Posted: 2005-10-18T23:16:47Z

Source: Let your voice be heard! The Supreme Court of the United States has taken away one of the most fundamental rights of all citizens — the right to own property. Thankfully, a bill has been introduced...

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Your perfect guy is... a goth! He's definately in...

Posted: 2005-11-11T18:11:38Z

Source:
Your perfect guy is... a goth! He's definately into rock or metal music just like you. He's
almost like a punk, except he wears more black & may worship Evil (although not all goth do...). Deep down (though he may not show it much or at all...) he is a brittle soul & carries the weight of the world. He loves you so much, you wouldn't realize it, but you probably can't tell. Try to make him show you the real him by asking him personal questions or spending tons of time with him. You'll work out perfectly! ^_^

-=-=-

Right. So much for THAT dream. *sighs*
Or, well, the perfect guy can't be pure goth... but maybe understand and/or practice the lifestyle. Again: Inner Turmoil. Love it.

And what's with people flaming PBB anyway? If you don't like it, don't watch it. If you can't stand people talking about it by the water dispenser or humming in tune of that darned song, then by all means GO THE FUCK AWAY FROM THEM! Just because you guys can't stand the "Jologs"-ness of it all, doesn't give you the right to roll your eyes in front of those who like the show. Geez.

I've read in the PBB forums that the song is so totally silly. Yes, well, sorry if some of us feel we need to hear something positive and empowering. I mean, sure, looking at the reality of the state of our country (the bird flu thing, Glo, VAT thingies, poverty, whatever else) would seem like the right approach, but I guess being Pinoy means looking at the bright side. Is it really a sin to let Pinoys forget about the harshness of life for a little while and enjoy a little song that will probably make them feel better about themselves after hearing it?

I do. I can say I sometimes hate being Filipino. Heck, I cringe whenever we mess up with something (like the White House spying bit... dunno the details, but it's just WRONG) and I wish we have more people that actually do something great (like invent something useful, durr). I hate it when some Pinoys feel proud about stupid stuff like somebody made a computer virus or somebody was pretty enough to snag a Hollywood actor. Or make some poor, clueless soul famous for the wrong reason (like bad grammar and/or pronunciation). Sheesh!

But, well, listening to songs like Pinoy Ako, or last year's NoyPi (Bamboo) are like batteries for the jaded Filipino. It makes us feel like we're still worth something and we're meant for greater things. Maybe it's just me, but they make me feel better about myself. Suddenly, being Pinoy isn't so bad. And it really isn't to begin with...

If only we stop pointing fingers at what makes Pinoys suck or why we act this way and that. Don't blame songs, don't blame TV, don't blame the government. We should really just...start pulling ourselves up. No need for words, songs, books. We just do it.

*sighs*

Blah. Or maybe I shouldn't be too affected with someone's forum topic. xD

Your Reputation Is: Mystery Girl You're the girl ...

Posted: 2005-11-08T21:17:59Z

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Windows Vista Installed

Posted: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:53:21 +0000

Source: Installed Windows Vista on 2 test boxes.

BOFH Excuse #70:

nesting roaches shorted out the ether cable

Django and Rails London meetup

Posted: 2005-08-18T17:11:19-00:00

Source:

Here's a date for your diary: Sam Newman is arranging a meetup for Django and Rails enthusiasts (and anyone else with an interest) on Monday the 5th of September at 7pm in Smiths of Smithfield. If you want to attend, leave a comment on Sam's entry to give an idea of numbers. I'm signed up - it should be a fun evening.

insurance

Posted: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:45:07 +0000

Source: insurance  Pacifican - Oct 26 10:47 PM GEICO Car Insurance - Official Site New GEICO customers report average annual savings over $500 on car insur...

Meme

Posted: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:37:09 GMT

Source: Posting anonymously, give me three hints about you and I will try (and most likely horribly fail) to guess who you are.

Vet's Unemployment Rate Skyrockets

Posted: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:41:00 +0000

Source: 'The return to civilian life for U.S. soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan is full of pitfalls, with an unemployment rate three times the national average.

'The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that for the first three quarters of 2005, nearly 15 percent of veterans aged 20-24 are jobless -- three times the national average.

'According to the website VeteransToday, published by veterans for veterans, the high unemployment rate is "partly because most service members seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the early stages of their military careers and possess limited transferable job skills or very little civilian work experience".

'The government is also worried about the number of veterans without a permanent address.' (Military.com article).

Gravity Tugboat for Dangerous Asteroids

Posted: 2005-11-11T13:28:14-08:00

Source: Jamais CascioHow do you keep a large asteroid from hitting the Earth? If you're in Hollywood, you blast it with a nuke; sadly, in the real...

Dobson Says Harriet Miers Nominated After Some Refused

Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:49:17 +0000

Source: Matt Drudge reports that in his program today, Dr. James Dobson discussed his much ballyhooed conversation with Karl Rove. Here’s a revelation from that broadcast which, in my opinion, should silence the conservative critics of the Harriet Miers nomination: ...

Amory Lovins to Participate in Pivotal Panel, 10.20.05

Posted: 2005-10-18T16:02:57Z

Source: "Winning the Oil Endgame for a More Secure and Profitable America: Opportunities, Barriers and Necessities for a Transition to a Reduced-Petroleum Economy" New York University School of Law will...

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Posted: 2005-11-11T18:28:54Z

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-=-=-
Nothing much happened today. I went to school, joined the exchange-gift-thingie for Christmas, got compliments for my altered bag (see previous entry), had cake at Red Ribbon, went home. My sister, on the other hand, went to Ayala to get us tickets for the HP:aTGoF tickets for the 16th! So excited!!! *dies*

WAAAAAAAAH!!!!

Posted: 2005-11-08T16:19:27Z

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Longhorn is now Windows Vista

Posted: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:13:59 +0000

Source: The long anticipated operating system codenamed Longhorn now has a name.

* james would be more impressed if netgod's magic powers could stop the splits in the first place...
* netgod notes debian developers are notoriously hard to impress
-- Seen on #Debian

How Django processes a request

Posted: 2005-08-15T17:55:39-00:00

Source:

I've decided to kick-start some architecture documentation for Django by describing how the core request handling mechanism in Django works. I'm talking about the part of Django that takes a request from a browser and turns it in to a response - I won't be discussing the template system, object-relational mapper or automated admin interface, which are all separate components; in fact, you don't need to use any of those to build a Django application.

When Django receives a request, the first thing it does is create an HttpRequest object (or subclass there-of) to represent that request. How this is done differs depending on the host environment, with different code depending on if Django is running under mod_python or WSGI (which enables hosting with CGI, Twisted and more). This HttpRequest object is the principle abstraction that enables Django to work under different hosting mechanisms.

Once the object has been created, Django performs URL resolution. This is a process by which the URL specified in the request is used to select a view function to handle the creation of a response. A trivial Django application is simply one or more view functions and a configuration file that maps those functions to URLs.

Having resolved the URL to a view, the view function is called with the request object as the first argument. Other keyword arguments may be passed as well depending on the URL configuration; see the documentation for details.

The view function is where the bulk of the work happens: it is here that database queries are made, templates loaded, HTML is generated and an HttpResponse object encapsulating the result is created. The view function returns this object, which is then passed back to the environment-specific code (mod_python or WSGI) which passes it back to the browser as an HTTP response.

This is all pretty straightforward stuff - but I skipped a couple of important details: exceptions and middleware. The view function doesn't have to return an HttpResponse; it can raise an exception instead, the most common varieties being Http404 (for file-not-found) or Http500 (for server error). In development servers these exceptions will be formatted and sent back to the browser, while in production mode they will be silently logged and a "friendly" error message displayed.

Middleware is even more interesting. Django provides three hooks in the above sequence where middleware classes can intervene, with the middleware classes to be used defined in the site's configuration file. This results in three types of middleware: request, view and response (although one middleware class can apply for more than one hook).

Request middleware runs after the HttpRequest object has been created but before the URL resolver runs, allowing it to modify the request in some way or to return a response of its own before the rest of the application has a chance to run.

View middleware is executed after the URL resolver has been used to identify the view but before the view itself runs. It is passed the view as a callback, allowing it to perform operations before and after the view has been executed. Alternatively, it can avoid running the view function at all.

Response middleware is run right at the end, after a response has been created but before it is passed back to the client. It has the ability to make final modifications to the HttpResponse object; for example, it could remove unnecessary whitespace from HTML or apply gzip compression.

The bulk of the above code can be found in the __call__ method of the ModPythonHandler class and the get_response method of the BaseHandler class. Example middleware classes can be found in the middleware directory. As Django is not yet at a 1.0 release, the above is all subject to potential refactoring future change.

Sounds like better plan … but who knows?

Posted: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:37:04 +0000

Source: Sounds like better plan ... but who knows?  The Sentinel - Oct 23 6:31 AM Connie DiMemmo pays hundreds of dollars a month for the eight medication...

Meme

Posted: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:19:55 GMT

Source: Comment with a full song or a few lyrics that remind you of me or you feel apply to me. Then repost this on your journal and see which lyrics your friends associate with you!

Feds Using ISPs To Spy On Internet Users

Posted: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:41:00 +0000

Source: 'Having exposed the EU’s intentions regarding data retention in a news article on Slyck, it comes as little surprise to hear that similar moves are afoot in the USA. Intelligence agencies already have full access to ISPs in those countries participating in the Echelon electronic spying network (Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA), and these latest measures are intended to extend similar powers to a wide range of other agencies.

'This latest move has arisen in response to representations made by the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency out of concern that emerging technologies “were making it increasingly difficult for law enforcement agencies to execute authorized surveillance”. As a consequence, the US communications governing body, the Federal Communications Commission issued a final Order effective Monday November 14th compelling all broadband Internet service providers and many Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, companies to include backdoors allowing police and many other enforcement agencies to directly eavesdrop on their customers by April 2007.' (Slyck News article).

SMS Disaster Alert System

Posted: 2005-11-11T13:07:28-08:00

Source: Jamais CascioIn the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami, one of the ideas we discussed here a bit was the creation of a disaster alert system...

Is Miers Nomination Becoming A Religious Test? Forsooth!

Posted: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:03:04 +0000

Source: Much of the current discussion in support of the Harriet Miers nomination is aiming at establishing lagging support among the Republican, conservative base. To do so, the Bush Administration and its spokesmen are pointing to her Christian faith as a supporting argument for aligning with the nomination....

Performance tracking of alternative fuels

Posted: 2005-10-21T21:34:10Z

Source: The folks at Brevard BioDiesel installed a Linear-Logic "ScanGauge" in their 2004 TDI Jetta to try and help gather additional mileage data for future biodiesel reports. The ScanGauge scans the...

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Pics for today! <-- I bought this Loli-licious ...

Posted: 2005-11-10T16:28:16Z

Source: Pics for today! />
<-- I bought this Loli-licious bag for only p200 at some booth at SM! I thought it'll look great with lace so I sew some on the sides! Cute, neh? I'm not really sure if it's pure Loli, so I asked the EGL (Elegant Gothic & Lolita) Livewire Community for opinions. Click here to read what they have to say!

<-- this is a cute little girl who was complaining to her mom that her stroller belt was too tight around her! She "parked" inside Info 'cause her parents inquired about the school and stuff. I kept waving at her 'cause she was so cute! ^_^

<--- ahahaha! Had fun with the curling iron. I felt like I wanna go curleh for today... too bad Sir Karl decided not to teach today. My hair prolly fell flat when I heard him say so! XD So much for preparing for school.

At East Ocean -=-=-=- Paopao Me Papay My sist...

Posted: 2005-11-06T16:35:36Z

Source:

At East Ocean />-=-=-=-


Paopao

Me

Papay

My sister

Me (again)

Ela with my cat ears

-=-=-

Well, Ela and Pao had to leave for Butuan yesterday evening so they decided to treat everybody to lunch. It was pretty near our place, a restaurant called East Ocean. It's another of those really pricey places and stuff.... but I didn't enjoy it. I can't understand the food and I wasn't really satisfied after leaving the place. Sure, it's sosyal, but I'd choose KFC any day!

-=-=-

Today (Sunday) was alright. I watched the Corpse Bride again with my sister. It was still amazing, heheh. We also ate burritos before going inside the theater. Yummy! Heheh. It wasn't a 100% great experience, tho, 'cause I had colds and I was trying to keep my sneezing at a minimum. Hrm...

Now that I thought about the East Ocean episode, I never really was for glitzy places. I don't like hanging around rich people and wherever it is they mingle about (but then again I never really liked being in places with lots of people anyway :P) . I dunno why, but I'm uncomfy around them. Including my own relatives. They're nice and all, but I really don't like being dragged to places where everyone tends to stare at you when you're different. I hate the feeling. Echt. Most of all, I'm not at all impressed with how much they can spend.... it just makes me roll my eyes a lot... Hrmm.

-=-=-

Well, glad to learn that the Info victory party/parties was/were a success! Sorry I couldn't make it 'cause I don't really like parties and the venues are too far away. Heheh. Besides, I'm all Info-ed out... Too much exposure to Informatics-ness or, well, more than the usual for my standards. Until the next project, guys (projects lang ko taman, wala na labot parties! You know I'm weird man pud. Hehehe)!

-=-=-

Anyway, not in the mood to be online right now. I'm just really tired, I guess. Weh. Sorry.

Toodles!

Windows Code Named Longhorn on the Way to Beta?

Posted: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:55:06 +0000

Source: Is Windows codenamed Longhorn actually in beta testers hands?

You're always thinking you're gonna be the one that makes 'em act different.
-- Woody Allen, "Manhattan"

Exciting developments with Django

Posted: 2005-08-03T16:56:34-00:00

Source:

The amount of activity surrounding the Django web framework since its not-quite release a few weeks ago is amazing. Adrian, Jacob and Wilson have been working over-time, with 395 check-ins to source control since the 13th of July. They've added WSGI support, a development web server, unit-tests, a ton of documentation, SQLite support, database introspection and dozens of other feature tweaks and bug fixes. Check out the project Timeline for an idea of just how frenetic things have been.

The emerging Django community has been kicking in as well. There's a significant community-led initiative to get internationalisation and localisation going, and a wide number of unofficial tutorials have emerged to complement the one on the site.

Here's where things get really interesting: changes at the Journal-World have kick-started the Django job market. Rob Curley, formally in charge of the World Company's web activities, recently took up a new position at the Naples Daily News in Florida. Rob just hired Eric Moritz, a regular on the #django IRC channel, to work on Django-powered projects there.

Meanwhile, Adrian Holovaty has taken a new job at the Washington Post as "Editor, Editorial Innovations" - a role that is sure to involve some very innovative use of Django (Adrian built chicagocrime.org). Adrian's departure means that the Journal-World are looking for a new developer - here's why you should apply.

One thing's for certain: we're going to see some very exciting Django-powered sites in the next few months.

Cheap Home Contents Insurance Quotes

Posted: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:10:05 +0000

Source: Cheap Home Contents Insurance Quotes  Hendon Times - Oct 14 11:50 PM Get your Home Insurance Online - www.autodirect.co.uk Auto Direct offer value ...

The sky has fallen and it's early in the morning, but it's okay somehow

Posted: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:02:11 GMT

Source: I won't go on and on about work today, cuz I can't do that every day. This morning I was incredibly slow with making the muffins and I burnt my elbow on the oven and then my fingertips on the icing, and they hurt every time I had to wash anything in hot water. I cried a little bit on my break but nobody noticed. Well, maybe Richard did cuz he was nice to me after that. I got to clean the tables all the rest of the day which is good, I love doing that even though it's boring.

When I was coming back with one of the trays, a man was waiting for me by the dishwasher and asked me what time I finished. I don't know where he was from but he wasn't English. He said "would you like to come out with me? I am a gentleman" and I said "I can't, I'm sorry" and he said "tomorrow, then?" and I said "I'm sorry, I have a boyfriend" and he looked sad and went away. Aww.

I inhale so much smoke at work I feel like I might as well be a smoker myself. The smoking section is right next to the dishwasher, where I spend most of the last half of my shift. I can feel the smoke in my throat and everything. And my fingers reek of cigarettes because I'm always having to pull butts out of the bottom of coffee cups. I hope my fingernails don't go yellow.

My feet really ache from standing up all day. So I got some magic magnetic therapeutic insole things that are going to change my life, apparantly.

I came home and half an hour later Chris had to leave for work, aww. But it'll be nice to get an evening to myself. I'm going to watch Sailor Moon and eat nice pasta. And knit, of course.

(Okay, so this post was all about work in one way or another. But never mind.)

Oh! By the way, everybody who I owe CDs too... I'm so busy at the moment I don't have a chance to do anything. But when I get paid, which should be at the end of the month, I will be sure to go to the post office and post everything I owe. Thankyou for being patient with me ♥

Strange Angel

Posted: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:36:45 +0000

Source: 'Is science fiction an arena where fantasies run wild or an experimental lab where new technologies, cultures and even physics can be assessed? Afficionados of this genre more likely think the latter. But not long ago, science fiction stories and even rocketry were considered little more than a fool's occupation. One person bucked this trend. He is Jack Parsons and he is also the central figure in George Pendle's biography entitled Strange Angel. From this we read how Parsons made believers of many people who ridiculed science and space travel.' (Universe Today book review).

Cultivation for Biodiversity

Posted: 2005-11-11T12:12:41-08:00

Source: Jamais CascioOne of the more insidious forms that loss of biodiversity can take is the reduction of genetic diversity within a particular species. The species itself...

Difficult Decision: Principled Support

Posted: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:21:47 +0000

Source: I will be updating my opinion on the Harriet Miers nomination as Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court later today, but I offer the following note I received by email from John Stemberger of the Florida Family Policy Council as a way to exlpain the change of direction I will be taking in support of Harriet Miers....

Atlantic City Wind Farm

Posted: 2005-10-17T20:53:43Z

Source: TRENTON, N.J. Construction has started in Atlantic City on New Jersey's first energy-producing wind farm. A Pennsylvania company is building five wind turbine towers, each about 300 feet...

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It was fun today! I've been waiting for the perfec...

Posted: 2005-11-03T17:24:59Z

Source: It was fun today! I've been waiting for the perfect chance to catch The Corpse Bride once it arrives in the cinemas and last night, Diana said we should watch it together with Nadine and Pops! I was sooo excited 'cause, well, it's TIM BURTON, and it would be fun watching it with other people. This was my first time watching a movie with any Info people (aside from that Imelda documentary... but that was for a class).

Well, as promised, I arrived at SM at 2:30 and met Diana at school. Nadine was stuck in traffic so we decided to go around hunting for food. I got Mr. Chips and a bottle of water. Heheh. We met Nadine shortly after we arrived at the ticket counter.

As expected, the movie was great! I love it muchosly! The Corpse Bride, Emily, rocked! I love her flowy veil and that little maggot that lives inside her head! She really is creepy... but also beautiful. Heheh. I still like the songs from Nightmare Before Christmas a lot more, tho.

<-- me@comfort room inside the cinema :P Anyway, after the movie we split up 'cause they went back to Info and I wanted to go to the department store to buy a black eyeliner pencil 'cause I totally lost TWO during the Halloween bit. *sighs* -=-=- I'm currently in the Midnight Society Info conference.. they're still talking about the victory party at Ace's house in Lapu-Lapu. It will happen tomorrow and they were thinking of hanging out, grill some stuff, prolly drink. I don't think I'm going since it's way too far and I don't want to go home late.. not to mention I don't know Ace that well. No offence and all (especially Pops), but I'm not particularly comfortable with him around (like with the Halloween Awarding ceremony at SM).

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Tears to Shed
(The Corpse Bride)

MAGGOT
What does that whispy little brat have that you don't have double?

BLACK WIDOW
She can't hold a candle to the beauty of your smile

CORPSE BRIDE
How about a pulse?

MAGGOT
Overrated by a mile

BLACK WIDOW
Overbearing

MAGGOT
Overblown

MAGGOT AND BLACK WIDOW
If he only knew the you that we know

CORPSE BRIDE
(sigh)

BLACK WIDOW
And that silly little creature isn't wearing his ring

MAGGOT
And she doesn't play piano

MAGGOT AND BLACK WIDOW
Or dance

MAGGOT
Or sing

MAGGOT AND BLACK WIDOW
No she doesn't compare

CORPSE BRIDE
But she still breathes air

BLACK WIDOW
Who cares?

MAGGOT
Unimportant

BLACK WIDOW
Overrated

MAGGOT
Overblown

MAGGOT AND BLACK WIDOW
If only he could see
How special you can be
If he only knew the you that we know

CORPSE BRIDE
If I touch a burning candle I can feel the pain
If you cut me with a knife it's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
For it seems that I still have a tear to shed

MAGGOT
The sure redeeming feature
From that little creature
Is that she's alive

BLACK WIDOW
Overrated

MAGGOT
Overblown

BLACK WIDOW
Everybody know that's just a temporary state
Which is cured very quickly when we meet our fate

MAGGOT
Who cares?

BLACK WIDOW
Unimportant

MAGGOT
Overrated

BLACK WIDOW
Overblown

MAGGOT AND BLACK WIDOW
If only he could see
How special you can be
If he only knew the you that we know

CORPSE BRIDE
If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain
In the ice or in the sun it's all the same
Yet I feel my heart is acheing
Though it doesn't beat it's breaking
And the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
I know that I am dead
Yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed

Fahamu: Pan-African Text Messaging for Social Justice

Posted: 2005-10-31T21:05:56-08:00

Source: Emily GertzFahamu uses information communication technologies to conduct pan-African campaigns for human rights and social justice. Founded in 1997 by Firoze Manji, a former director of...

Atlantic City Wind Farm

Posted: 2005-10-17T20:53:43Z

Source: TRENTON, N.J. Construction has started in Atlantic City on New Jersey's first energy-producing wind farm. A Pennsylvania company is building five wind turbine towers, each about 300 feet...

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Taken yesterday out of sheer boredom. Hrm...

Anyway, last night (and early in the morning) was really fun 'cause lots of Info people joined the conference and Diana decided to play DJ and played some songs (our requests) via microphone. We invited somebody from Informatics Raintree 'cause he PM'ed me that the Sportsfest will be moved to February (which totally got everyone in the conference frustrated). Hrm...

I personally don't really care much about the idea of merging events with other schools. I hardly even join any on my own school and judging from the behavior of my schoolmates, they'd just group together on one side, and the people from other schools on the other. *sighs* Well, I give it to the Info bigwigs to have thought of the idea. What's really annoying is that SM's about done with the responsibilites assigned to them. Just because Raintree couldn't look for sponsors and whatever the heck they can't do, doesn't mean they can only whine about it and urge the others to move the date! They're just a bunch of whiny, spoiled brats. It's unfair. Now Diana's worried about what to do with the sponsors who already accepted and how to tell them the darned event is cancelled for this November.

This PM there's an emergency meeting at Info (wasn't there 'cause me's in Lapu-lapu). Diana's gonna fill me in about what happened there.

Tuesday I got sooo tired today! I got up at aroun...

Posted: 2005-10-27T16:18:57Z

Source: Tuesday

I got sooo tired today! I got up at around 8 in the morning 'cause my sister arrived from Butuan! She gave me lots of stuff my mom bought for me (mostly clothes and earrings) and I was surprised that all she brought home was one bag---filled with my stuff! Then I learned she's just here to enroll herself then go back to Butuan in the evening! Anyway, by then I had a hard time going back to sleep so I took a bath and decided to go to Ayala to look for more decorations for school. Nothing super Halloween-ey in there so I just walked around and was surprised (and excited) to see Janylin sell some shoes 50% off! AND MY FAVE PUMPS WAS ON SALE TOO! So I bought it immediately, even though it's another addition to my new set of very painful yet sexy pairs of shoes. :P

<-- it's this one. ;) I like it 'cause it looks goth-ish.

Anyway, seeing there's nothing else in Ayala, at around 12:30, I went to SM to help out in the decorating. I get to cut more pumpkins, paint a certain font for tombstones, and watch Cornelius, Pops, and Kevin have fun scaring people outside (something about a contraption Corni made that makes a fuzzy spider fall on somebody who stopped by the school to see out Photoshopped Halloween pictures at Room A). Pops thought it was a great idea to give candies to the people with the best reaction. Heheh. Oooh...and while helping Cornelius in glueing the leaves on the glass wall for Room A, I accidentally touched the hot glue stick and now I feel this little sting on my thumb. :( Erm... what else? Decorating... and... more decorating... hmm... Hope it's all worth it, tho. We really NEED to win. Heheh.

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Wednesday

It's THE DAY! Hehe! I couldn't sleep a wink 'cause I was sooo excited! So I decided to use the time to make some certain "alterations" on my tie (cut a cross from an old black shirt and sew it on the tie :P).
<-- my tie
<-- my hand-whatever-thing

See the album!

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After lunch, took a shower, did my makeup (extra black eyeshadow!), drew a cute little star above my cheek, changed into my goth/punkish/lolita-ish costume and asked Krystel if she thinks it's ok... she gave me a thumbs up! I asked Ate Wena to take a few pics of yours truly so I could send it to Tita Maimai ('cause my mom and Ela wanted to see), and I was on my way to SM!

I arrived at around 2-ish and as I had my bag checked at the entrance, the female guard said "Informatics ka noh? Nindot imo sanina, dai." I smiled and did a sweet pose! I though walking towards the school would be hard 'cause there would be lots of people staring but I can't actually run in my shoes (feels like it's made of wood!) so I had to walk slowly with my head held high... and if anyone would as much as point and say something rude, I'd give 'em a very angry and carefully polished finger! Wah! But it turned out that some of the guys are already outside wearing their costumes and frightening little kids so I felt better about walking all the way towards school. People were complimenting me on my costume and I was glad 'cause it took a whole LOT of effort to put the whole thing together! Even though my shoes are killing me, I felt great all over anyway!

They set up a TV set near the entrance at Informatics showing some scary movies and we also videotaped the reactions of the "victims" of Cornelius' spider thing. Sir Karl wore an all-black outfit with some scary skull necklace (that he wouldn't let anybody touch!), Sir Mel wore all-black stuff as well (and eyeliner overload!), Sir Henry was inspired by that Photoshop manip that I did of him and stuck a plastic knife on his chest... and the rest of the faculty wore funny headresses. The Course Consultants went lilac with their outfits complete with matching wings and wands! So cute! Anyway, you'll see all of it on the album (linked above).

The whole day went really great! I was really glad to see our efforts appreciated by the people who passed by (and by the judges! For 5 days, we decorated the place and they only checked it out for 5 minutes! Heheh!). It really did come together nicely... and there was this great sense of unity with the students---which is rare. Pop's daughter, Blossom, came to visit and she was the cutest thing ever! A bit upset about Cornelius' costume, tho (he's a hunchback!). Heheh.

Ooooh! And the cutest thing happened! We had our picture taken with Sir Karl! It might not sound like a big deal, but Sir Karl usually doesn't want to be in any pictures. It was a RARE opportunity so we took advantage of it! Pops actually sat on his lap and Sir Karl looked like he's ready to throw her down the floor and run! Ahahahah! What was more shocking is that he congratulated me on my costume and gave me a high five! No kidding!!!!!!!

After the judges were gone, everyone was kinda tired and hungry so we all went our separate ways to hunt down some food. I brought another pair of shoes to change if ever I can't walk with my gothilicious ones anymore, so after I changed, Diana, Pops,Cornelius, Maimai, Trixie, Abigail, and I went to Tacos to get some quesadillas. On our way back to the school, we passed by a guy that waved at me and said "Hi Wednesday!". Hmr...

We hung out at Info for a bit and at around 7pm, everybody was off to watch the basketball practice for out Sportsfest. I told them I'll pass and went to Sbarro to buy myself dinner and went home. It was a weird experience 'cause it was quite alright walking with the girls with our costumes... but I was alone and people had these really confused look in their faces when they see me. Heheh. And kids hide behind their parents when they see me! xD

I went home and had dinner with Kuya, Papay, Chichi, and Karl. Then I went directly upstairs and changed, removed my makeup (took a long time!) and went to sleep! I woke up 'cause someone sent me an SMS (with a scary laugh as my message alert tone!) and it was Anton! He was outside the house and he bought pizza! He got to know Bax, played with him for a bit, we ate (while Bax was waiting to be fed some too!), and talked for a bit.

Windows Code Named Longhorn on the Way to Beta?

Posted: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:55:06 +0000

Source: Is Windows codenamed Longhorn actually in beta testers hands?

If you don't do the things that are not worth doing, who will?

Introducing Django

Posted: 2005-07-17T11:59:57-00:00

Source:

You may know that I spent a year working in Kansas for a local newspaper - the Lawrence Journal-World. I'm delighted to announce that a decent chunk of the software I worked on there is now available as open-source, in the form of the Django web framework.

Django is an MVC Python web development framework with a strong emphasis on content management. While comparisons with Rails are inevitable (I plan to post one myself shortly), it should be emphasized that Django is by no means a clone of Rails - in fact, development on Django started in October 2003, months before the first public Rails release. That the two frameworks share so many ideas is, I feel, a testament to the design of both.

Django was initially developed by Adrian Holovaty and myself, with Jacob Kaplan-Moss joining the team shortly before my departure. The framework evolved during the construction of a number of sites, which included:

• 6newslawrence.com, local TV news, the first site to launch using the then nascent Django framework.
• lawrence.com, a local entertainment site. Every town should have a site like this; sadly, very few do.
• VisitLawrence.com, a local tourism site.
• KUSports.com, a sports news site covering the University of Kansas.
• LJWorld.com, a local news site and the flagship for the Journal-World.

It's also purring along under the hood of chicagocrime.org and the Django project site itself.

Adrian and I developed Django to allow us to create reasonably complex database driven web applications in as little time as possible. A local newspaper produces a huge amount of information - news stories, events listings, obituaries, sports results, marriage announcements, photo galleries, polls, weather reports and dozens of other bits and pieces. To maximise their value and potential for reuse, these things need to be stored in a database. That database needs a user interface for people to add and modify content, and of course the information needs to be published to a website somewhere.

Django automates most of this - and makes the rest as easy as possible. You create a data description (kind of like an SQL table schema but with additional information about validation rules and interface widgets) and load it in to Django. Django then creates the database tables, model classes and a comprehensive web-based administration interface for your site's staff. All that's left for you to do manually is the code for the public site, which is generally a case of writing a few lines of controller code, configuring some URLs and knocking out some templates.

To give you an idea of how much this speeds up the creation of new sites, consider the case of Game. Game was a site created to provide detailed coverage of little-league games in and around Lawrence (for non-Americans, little-league is baseball and softball for children aged around 5 to 11 - it's amazingly popular). The entire Game site, including news, fixtures, match results, team profiles and even weather forecasts for forthcoming matches took two days to develop.

I haven't been involved with Django since leaving the Journal-World back in September, but now that the framework is open-sourced I look forward to contributing to its further development - both in terms of documentation and actual code. There's already plenty to look at on the Django site (designed by the ever-talented Wilson Miner); I suggest the overview as your first port of call.

Expect to hear a lot more about the framework in the next few weeks.

C4A: Will Insurance Premiums Go Up Due To Hurricanes?

Posted: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:25:03 +0000

Source: C4A: Will Insurance Premiums Go Up Due To Hurricanes?  Action News 4 Pittsburgh - Oct 26 12:04 PM The following report by Call 4 Action reporter Me...

Stress

Posted: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:56:39 GMT

Source: I'm up at 8.30 and it feels odd. I'm shaking so much that the mouse is going all over the place. I don't think this is stress, this is just being awake early. I went to bed at half past ten and I didn't get to sleep until five because that's my usual bed time. Maybe I could get into an early bed time routine if I got the job, but Chris always has late bed times even if he has early shifts and I don't want to miss out on seeing him. Maybe I wouldn't be able to handle full time after all, maybe I should just go for part time. After all, then if it goes okay I could ask for more shifts and that'd be a good thing. If I start full time it'd be harder to go to part time if I change my mind. But I want more than just Saturday shifts or something, because I want more money. I want to work three days a week maybe. If they offer me either just Saturdays or full time, I'll probably pick full time. But I can't exactly say that I'd rather have part time but will accept full time if that's all they're offering me, can I? Maybe I can kind of ask for somewhere in between? Like, three and a half days? 30 hours a week? Is that just hopelessly picky? I'll try and still sound flexible... I don't want to screw this up. I just don't know how much I can handle.

Plus, I'm wondering if I've even got the time right. On the phone, he said "three... no ten-thirty." Well, maybe he said two-thirty because that's closer to three? How will I know? I can't ring him back because I've had enough of phones. Will it be really awful if I turn up five hours early? I mean, he's going to be at work all day anyway?

And I've just remembered that on my CV I lied and said I'd worked for a week in Lucy's friend's friend's shop, and she asked him and he said he'd be my reference. Which is okay except for the fact they'll ask me what I did and I'll have to lie. I'm going to say I didn't use the till or anything, just put stuff on shelves and answered customer questions. That shouldn't be too hard to lie about. But still!

If they ask me why I've not had a real job before... I'm going to say that I never really needed one before and that as I was doing my Open University studies I didn't look that hard for a job. Is that okay? I could also use my OU as an excuse as to why I don't want to do really full-time, even though you can work full time with it. I'll just say I don't want to push myself too hard...

I really want this job. I just also want to be the kind of person who can get up in the morning, and I don't think I can.

Cynthia McKinney: The Upcoming March To Gretna

Posted: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:16:10 +0000

Source: First of all I'd like to acknowledge the life and death of Rosa Parks, a pioneer with courage, who will be laid to rest today.

CNN.com reports that as the heart of a hurricane-ravaged New Orleans filled with sewage-tainted floodwaters and corpses, Mayor Ray Nagin urged people to cross a bridge leading to the dry lands of the city's suburban west bank.

And there begins the story of what might become the worst American civil rights episode ushering in the 21st Century.

Sunball

Posted: 2005-10-31T17:24:21-08:00

Source: Jamais CascioThe Sunball, a "solar appliance" due out in mid-2006, is an example of something I expect to see quite a bit more of in the...