Oh, look. Four new moons around Saturn. Yeehaw. That makes it how many? 104? 204? Oh, just 28. I think maybe we should come up with stricter criteria for moons around gas giants. I wouldn’t qualify piece of ice that just happened to fall into Saturn’s gravity well.
Death penalty commuted because…
Design on my new site is going okay, if a bit slowly. I think I shall upload everything in one fell swoop right after New Year of 2001.
Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day in Erap’s impeachment trial: Justice Davide is going to decide whether the prosecution should be allowed to investigate certain Equitable-PCI bank records, suspected of being linked to Erap’s embezzling of public funds, as evidence against the president. I sincerely hope he rules in prosecution’s favor; much of the trial stands on this evidence. The defense — a rather formidable team, as compared to the rusty congressional prosecutors — has not been too subtle in their attempts to keep the bank documents from being seen. Could be that prosecution is hitting pretty close on this one.
In other news, the president commuted the death penalty. Interesting, how he so staunchly supported capital punishment before, but the moment he learns that one of the possible impeachment raps against him — plunder — carries with it the penalty of death, he suddenly becomes an advocate for life.
Congratulations, Silvergirl!
Congratulations, Silvergirl! She has managed to ace her math, should ace her English, and could be on her way to acing her whole semester. And is also getting along better with her husband and with herself. All the best! I hardly know you, but it’s nice to see you happy! = )
I’m due for a redesign. The page has been getting more and more disorganized as I add content. Fortunately, there’s SSI. I’m going to lie dormant for a few days while I come up with a better design vision, then upload the revised version all at one go, hopefully before next week. Watch for it.
Cantata Done!
Weird. The hard disk gives me a Bios Primary HDD Error on startup for about an hour the next morning, then, on the nth restart, suddenly boots up normally. A reverification of the disk surface shows no bad sectors or errors. Like nothing happened. It’s been perfectly fine since then. ??? Well, I suppose God wanted to keep me off the computer that night.
The Christmas Cantata is over, and it was great! A few technical hitches with the sound system, but then again, what born-again church doesn’t have sound system problems, eh? = P We had an evangelical interlude, and through that, decisions for Christ. Praise God!
Whirr, click.
Last night, my hard disk made a noise, then hanged. Until about an hour ago, the whole machine would not start up. Then, just as inexplicably, it started working again. No chances. I’ve backed up my data to Zip disk. But I may not be able to update this page for a while. We’ll see what happens.
Patho Pix
Some nice pictures, courtesy of Mic. I wanted to be a doctor when I was young, you see, so I looked at a lot of pictures like that. Not for the easily grossed-out.
Milo owes me 10 pesos.
Milo owes me 10 pesos. Last night I tried to buy a cup of cold Milo from the Milo/Nestea vendo-machine outside my apartment, and it promptly pissed the chocolate milk into the beverage slot — sans cup. 10 pesos literally down the drain. (For you Americans, 10 pesos is a few cents short of a quarter. Don’t knock it. That can buy two cups of rice.)
The Estrada Impeachment Trial begins
The Estrada Impeachment Trial has begun! Former Chief Justice Andres Narvasa just opened his defense of the president with a comparison to Julius Caesar. *GAG* Hey, but Caesar was stabbed to death by… by… the Senate! Hey, that wouldn’t be so bad. Of course, Erap’s so padded he wouldn’t feel a thing. Thunk, thunk.
I sincerely hope he gets impeached with a vengeance. He’s deceived, damaged, and ravaged this poor country far more than enough. How sorry I feel for those poor farmers in their fields and the squatters along the rails who still cry out their support for him from their poverty, completely blind to the fact that every second Erap is in power adds more and more to their squalor, as he pillages public funds and destroys the local economy. (Except for the recipients of his “free housing” — sheer largesse for a tiny minority; desperate attempts to salvage his dying approval rating.)
Politics aside, ALXBook is still down. Not good. It’s been significantly more than just “a day.” One more day, and I start looking for a new guestbook.
Para!
[12/6/2000 7:04 pm] Mobile Funny, but whenever I ride the MRT, I have to suppress the urge to pass my fare forward and yell “PARA!” at the train station.
Dreamweaver rollover javascript
You know something? I don’t like Dreamweaver’s rollover script too much, because it doesn’t really preload. Whenever I load a webpage with rollovers, and I think it’s finished loading, then I roll over an image and the IE5 Windows icon starts revolving again, I know it’s Dreamweaver. Better to write your own javascript rollovers. If only I knew how; I still haven’t gotten down to self-studying all those technologies I want to learn. Not that I need javascript rollovers right now; in the interests of conserving bandwidth, I’m using CSS.