This is what happens when you cook a PalmVII in the oven.
Also check out the Palm Graveyard.
IT Company cuts off Net access
Check this PEX thread: an IT company that cut off its web developers’ internet access. They also removed their employees’ floppy and CD-ROM drives. This is one for the Dilbert books.
Dial-Up ARGH!
Maybe it’s just my frustration right now, but words cannot express how inherently pathetic it is to have a country trying to turn itself into a regional leader in Information Technology — when the meager 1% of its population with Internet access can’t even get a decent dialup connection from home.
I’ll let my browser status bar speak for itself:
It just ain’t right.
Pooper – Vanilla Sky
This is how Vanilla Sky (aka Abre los Ojos) ends. Think hard before you click, and don’t say I didn’t warn you.
TNG crew to go bobsledding?!
The positions in the bobsled were chosen based on their individual talents: Stewart for aerodynamics, Spiner for his navigational skills, Frakes for ballast and Dorn for upper body strength.
(link via Ensign Crusher)
Syndicate
You can now syndicate my weblog, but the RSS feed gets uppity whenever special characters come into it. Don’t know why.
Pque-NAIA Row 3
Rosanna of PEX clears up some of my misconceptions on the airport taxation row. It turns out that it’s not a matter of the airport being a government establishment; it’s the land the airport is on. And, um, the case is currently pending at the Court of Appeals. Boy is my face red.
I still find it uncouth of the local government to threaten auctioning off airport property — and the airport itself! — and closing down runways while the case with the Court of Appeals is still pending. Fund-raising for infrastructure projects should not be an excuse — this is a question of legality, not of the city’s need for money. Laws on taxation should stand whether the city is raising funds or not.
(Why am I so fixated on this airport issue anyway? I rarely comment on local news like this. Maybe it’s the fact that I might be using that airport soon to get out of here? ;)
Pque-NAIA Row 2
Airport auction stopped. Yay. Note that last paragraph: the Para˜aque local government is still trumpeting out loud how the hullabaloo over tax liabilities is aimed at “generating one billion pesos for infrastructure projects.”
STUPID STUPID STUPID!!! If the local government is doing this for the sole reason of fund-raising, then it doesn’t have a leg to stand on! The primary motivation should be lawfulness of taxation, and standard procedure on this should be a lawsuit, right? This is blackmail, plain and simple. I wonder why the government isn’t doing something to censure Parañaque for it?
Box Model Hacks
Many thanks to the Cyberlizard for a tip on CSS box model hacks, which I am now studying from BlueRobot. Just the thing to fix Index 44. I hope.
Tub Cat. Sure.
Please tell me that’s not a real cat.