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Monthly Archives: May 2004

PauloMovesFurnitureAroundHisRoomCam

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Timelapse video of me rearranging my furniture. Guest-starring Pandora the Cat.

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Rearranging

Saturday, May 29, 2004

I’ll be AFK for the rest of the Memorial Day Weekend as I rearrange my furniture and attempt to add a few checkmarks to my To Do list. Time and weather permitting, I should be able to squeeze in some skating, hiking, and pasyalan around the many Memorial Day and WWII events happening on the [...]

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Cicada

Friday, May 28, 2004

One of the infamous Brood X Cicadas flew into the office yesterday, crashed into a wall, and settled to the floor behind my desk. These babies are strong; when I tried to pick him up by the wings, he clamped a leg onto the carpet and another onto the nearest CAT-5 cable, and would not [...]

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Exercise in Cynicism

Friday, May 28, 2004

As expected, Philippine elections last May 10th were an exercise in cynicism, with dubious incumbent GMA pulling the lead over movie star and Erap puppet FPJ, to the noisy, rancorous music of election fraud accusations. It’s greater evil versus lesser evil, and I’ll leave it up to you to decide who is which. Either way: [...]

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Strangelover

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

A bit of PHP and CSS, thrown into an idle moment, and I present to you: The Strangelover.

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Washingtonniene

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Update: My mistake, it’s spelled “Washingtonienne.” But this misspelled title gets tons of hits, so it’s all good.
Most recent scandal rocking the government’s not-so-hallowed halls is that of Jessica Cutler, better known as “Washingtonniene”, a low level Hill staffer (um, ex-staffer) who posted accounts of her many, varied, and profitable sexual exploits to a public [...]

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MeFi Wiki

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Metafilter has a wiki, and in the wiki, I have an entry, though I think my MeFi user profile should be enough.
Update, 2007: New Metafilter wiki, now running on Mediawiki.

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“Default Banner”

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

On this NYT story about Blogger (link via shellen), I saw a very large purple animated banner to the right, with some kind of weird, pixelated, black shape swirling in the middle of it. Odd advertisement, right? It looked HTML-resized, so I tried going to the img src URL. Heh.

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Bed Frame

Monday, May 24, 2004

I’m selling a twin-to-full bed frame. Here’s the ad on DC Craigslist: “It’s a BED FRAME! For your BED!”

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Amtrak and Orbitz in Style

Monday, May 24, 2004

Joining the ranks of travel sites using CSS, we have Orbitz and Amtrak Guest Rewards. Great work on both, with just a few knots and kinks:
Orbitz, my own favored travel site, has done an excellent job cleaning up their tabs-and-curves look, simplifying front page elements to just the essentials, but the arrangement of some of [...]

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