Archive for April, 2003
SARS here, SARS there
SARS is starting to go big time in the home land. I’m a bit surprised that it took this long to start spreading among Filipinos, considering the volume of human traffic between the Philippines and China (and the rest of the world), but it looks like the reports are catching up. It’s really scary. I [...]
Zaurus Dreams
I found someone selling a secondhand Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D real cheap, and I’m very seriously considering it. Despite the OS X sync issues, the price it’s going for is well worth it for an expandable high-res internet-capable Linux handheld with rich media playback capability; I get a SD image viewer and MP3 player as well [...]
Send Later
How hard would it be for Apple to include “Send Later” and “Send Queued Messages” menu items in Mail.app, I wonder? Being a dialup user half the time, I’m not always ready to fire off my messages from the hip, so right now I need to hit the Send button, wait for a dialog, select [...]
Palm Overboard
Darn it, darn it, darn it. I lost my Palm yesterday; it must have slid out of my slacks pocket in the taxi on the way to church. Just a Zire, so it’s not too much of a blow to my finances, and I had the presence of mind to sync the same morning, so [...]
Peace Be
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” I’m very much in need of peace today; it has been another tiring, frustrating, and somewhat [...]
ReEno
Yet another sound piece up: “ReEno,” (MP3, 2.2MB) a collection of tweaked OS startup sounds blended into a 2.5-minute ambient sound comp. Inspiration loosely drawn from the tonal works of Wendy Carlos and Brian Eno. (Eno is said to have composed startup sounds for both Windows and Mac, though I can find no reference to [...]
By His Stripes
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed [...]
Cultic How-To’s
Sparticus has a quick primer on cult-starting: Part 1, Part 2. Kaanibs and Benevolents should take note. Speaking of which, my two favorite Filipino cults have a web presence once again: Kaanib.net, your *cough* “Christian community portal” is back, with stories of a festive mood and a wip of fresh spirit. (Never fear that the [...]
WWW History
My final project for Druckrey’s class is a paper and presentation on the history of HTML and the web. Time to collect some links: W3: A Little History of the World Wide Web Evolt: Old Browser Archive Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine (with such gems as Netscape.com circa 1996) Mirror of Yahoo.com, circa 1994
DeadDeadDead
DeadDeadDead. Update: Unfortunately, DeadDeadDead.com is no longer active. We mourn its passing.