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Index 10 is something of a web design milestone for me: it’s my first attempt at using CSS box properties instead of table hacks for a layout. And it feels good. Looks good, too, in IE5, and hopefully it should look good in Netscape 6. Viewing it in Netscape 4 will give you a completely […]
Last night, I met a paranoid little kitten, who, in his panic to get away from me, ran up the stairs and chased himself right into my apartment, and into my room. It took almost an hour of coaxing him out from under my bed to get him out, with many hisses, spits, bites, and […]
I haven’t been blogging at all lately because I’m so exhausted. Lots of work. Actually, that’s a fib: we’ve had hectic days with lots of work, followed by stretches of time filled with nothing. Yesterday was a nothing-day in the office, so I spent the day playing Counterstrike by myself with a bunch of bots, […]
In February 2001, I was invited by the Flying Medical Samaritans for a missionary “field trip” to a couple of the islands they minister to and the orphanage they run. Gosh, where do I begin? So many stories to tell of that weekend. Saturday morning, we took off from Manila Airport on a Britten-Norman Islander […]
It seems everyone had a really bad Monday today. I know ******* and I did. Traffic built up in the worst places, things fell off tables, machinery failed, computers hanged, food was served wrong. And in Tiff’s office, for no discernible reason, a panel arbitrarily dropped from the ceiling, almost hitting one of her officemates. […]
Just one more melodramatic post on this topic … I can’t find words to describe how exhilarating it was to stand on the Edsa-Ortigas flyover today, with ******* and her folks, to watch President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo get sworn into office at the Edsa shrine. We had a perfect view of all the the famous politicians […]
Did we do the right thing? I think we did. Today the Philippines removed an incompetent, corrupt, bumbling President whose only redeeming trait was a witty charm with which to deceive the poor, swayable masses. Already, investors are regaining confidence in our country now that we have an experienced economist and politician in power. Hopefully […]
Well, looks like it’s over. I’ve just returned from EDSA, where I witnessed a grand historical event: the swearing into office of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at the EDSA Shrine, to the cheers of a huge crowd of Filipino rallyists. Erap Estrada, deserted by the public majority, the military, his cabinet, and his political supporters, mustered […]
Opposing rallyists have met at Mendiola, and fighting has broken out, despite intervention by anti-riot police. A few shots were fired, several stones thrown, and a few people injured in scattered clashes. A pro-Erap rallyist was just interviewed on the radio; he was beaten up by his own fellow pro-Erap activists, who thought he was […]
Good morning, I just woke up to check the news. It’s almost over. A panel is negotiating terms for Erap’s resignation, and opposition leaders have given him a deadline to resign: 6 am, or they march on Malacañang. He has virtually no political supporters left; just four people in the Palace, and a few hundred […]