My brain hurts.

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I like MyBrainHurts. I always enjoy coming across Christians on the web, and this guy’s remarkable: passionate, yet refreshingly rational and informed about the faith. He has some good essays and theological resources, too. And wow, finishing his MA in Theology!

On a technical note, I’m thinking of going mobile with this blog. With my cellphone. I’m just daydreaming, of course. To blog from my cellphone, I would have to send an SMS message to my email address, then open my email when I get home and paste the text into my blog with a “mobile” footnote.

Hmmm. I’ll give it a try.

Freewebspace.net

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Freewebspace.net is a pretty good resource for reviews and ratings of many free web hosts on the net. Their message board is especially useful, since a lot of users are on it, sharing their experiences with FWP’s.

MLM

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Multi-level marketing. I love this article. Van Druff makes an excellent argument against the evils of multi-level marketing in all aspects: economic, social, ethical, and religious.

Impactnet. Grah.

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I hate Impact’s service as a dialup ISP. It is slow. Ssssllloooowwww. Sometimes I just get so exasperated that I hang up and use a prepaid internet card instead, which is much, much faster. And when a prepaid ISP is faster than a subscriber account, you know something’s wrong.

I know I’m getting it as a free privilege, so I can’t claim I’m not getting my money’s worth. But still, when the internet moves at speeds like this, you can’t help but get cross. 0.04 KB/sec? Incredible. And I know it’s not just the regular line noise.

Cantata? Or Web Awards?

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The Philippine Web Awards is on Friday, and I got free tickets since FB4F is a finalist. But we have choir practice for our upcoming Christmas cantata at the same time, plus elections for the new deacons and elders of our church. I was not at peace over that, so I did a little praying tonight, and God has convicted me to go to church instead and seek his glory, not my own.

So I shall go to church. If FB4F does win an award — which I seriously doubt, considering the competition — then praise God for a miracle! But it’s far more important to devote this time to activity which will help win souls to Christ, especially since the Christmas cantata is so close already, but we still don’t have the music and choreography down pat.

I will give my tickets to the PEX moderators, since they need it. Pinoyexchange, I think, is definitely going to get something.

SoulfulHunk

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Have you ever seen such a blatantly tactless display of egocentric provocation as this? This “SoulfulHunk” character is constantly plaguing Pinoyexchange with his indiscreet pretensions to superiority and his not-too-subtle attempts at subverting the message board’s policies. Arguing or debating with him on any level of sapience or intelligibility doesn’t work, because he has already decided from the outset that whatever you say is wrong, and that he is right.

(Oh, just an update: our Arts mod locked his thread, so he just started a new one.)

The Pain

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Is it just me, or is every free service on the Internet undergoing some sort of upgrade or revision at the same time? So far: Geocities, Blogger, and Hypermart have had downtimes and upgraded/modified/repaired their services, almost simultaneously. Well, things seem to be settling down again. Let’s hope this blog entry updates without a hitch.

I’ve uploaded my new site archive, A Brief History of Brownpau, to the old space in GeoCities. It’s really just an excuse to put something in that space para `di sayang, and also to give users some fun seeing what a crappy HTML designer I used to be. = P

I had a sesame bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. It cost more than it should have, because Au Bon Pain on Dela Rosa St. didn’t have any change for a hundred, so I had to get an additional bottle of apple juice to round out the cost. I don’t like Au Bon Pain much anymore, not sice I found that their “mocha blast” is just chocolate milk, and it costs more than a Starbucks iced cafe mocha.

Hypermart again

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Well, here I am back on Hypermart, riding on a folder in Simplesight. I guess this is home for now. Gosh, all I seem to blog about nowadays is my Quest for a Free Web Host.

The Spaceports Bubble Bursts

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Argh. After four days, the Spaceports bubble has burst. I can’t use Namezero to redirect to the index.shtml page here on the CGI-BIN server; instead I have to make a meta-redirect page on my space in Luna and have it forward to this page. That’s too much of a workaround to deal with when you can get much simpler service elsewhere. Plus, the fullscreen 404 error pages are awful.

Sorry, Spaceports. I’m leaving.

Spaceports Troubles

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I’m having some trouble linking to graphics on my site. Specifically, the title of my ALX guestbook, which I’ve stored in an images folder in my cgi-bin account, then linked to from the ALX control panel, using what I think should be the proper paths listed in http://io.spaceports.com/~wysardry/cgi-bin/paths.htm. Hmmm, maybe if I use my Luna space… ugh, FTP to Luna doesn’t want to work.

I hear bubbles bursting. Darn it, I just moved here.

Oh, great. Now I’m having problems blogging to Spaceports. Let’s try that again…