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Thank God for CSS !

Ack! Information overload! Prior to launching its portal ("a rose by any other name..."), Google launches the Google Factory Tour , a media event that drums up their technologies, behind-the-scenes, among others. Webcast (RealMedia or Windows Media Player) is available here .

This is what my Thunderbird RSS inbox looks like right now. I also use Feedster so I can browse feeds I subscribe to even when I'm away from the 'bird.

I'm up to my nostrils in work. My desktop is a freakin' mess, with windows opened all over the place. Got to add more workspaces... Fudging with the PHP templating engine and miscellaneous bits of code from the CMS. By tomorrow, I'm hoping to fully dissect the engine and come up with my own. I'm still busy noting the functions and classes. I'll probably have a half-decent documentation next week. I hope. On a side note, I'm still very frustrated with PostgreSQL. I still couldn't find the right combination in the pg_hba.conf that would allow me to connect to the database through PEAR. Oh well, it's a separate thing entirely — it's a test system I'll be deploying soon — it can wait. And, oh: I was also to upload a news story and the newsletter yesterday. Today, I uploaded another news story and the posters. Doing these in the static site is such a pain, I can't wait to deploy the CMS.

Our BOFH net-admin got his already, but I signed up earlier than him. :( Update : Got mine two weeks after.

Geeks do fall in love. Watch the video . Hear the music . Read the lyrics . Some bits: I've proved my proposition now, as you can see, so let's both be associative and free And by corollary these shows you and I to be Purely inseperable, Q. E. D.

Got back from the Cagayan de Oro City conference. Turned out my poster paper was one of the finalists in the "Best Poster" competition. Too bad I wasn't able to enjoy the place because I was cooped up in the conference venue all day, and I was too tired to roam around at night. Well, next time around, I'll bring my family. Got new work assignments this month. Have to freshen the "look-and-feel" of the CMS site and introduce separate pages for different user types. Also have to refurbish the VClass front page. I'll also have to look under the hood of the SMS-database interface.

I've been sidelined for quite a while from translating GNOME Glossary (the most recent work is here ). But now, I'm buckling down to work again. I now use KBabel — previously, I did it on gtranslator. To generate statistics for my recent output, I use: $ msgfmt --statistics -c -v ~/Projects/OpenSource/glossary_tl.po 527 translated messages, 19 fuzzy translations, 344 untranslated messages. Whew! Lot of work ahead. Well, the glossary is fairly large and while translating terms — specially technical ones — seem pretty disjointed, I hope the word list can be useful for other translators. The current file is temporarily at my Metawire.org account before submitting it to Eric Pareja, the TL team leader.

I signed up two freebie accounts: one has shell (OpenBSD) access ( Metawire.org ) and the other just plain web hosting ( ePinoy.com ). I'll be using the Metawire account to brush up on my BSD and host my resume and the Epinoy one to play with a PHP-MySQL-powered app I'm cooking up. Update : My Metawire shell is still up and running. Epinoy, however, folded up.

Just had my DSL modem replaced — for the fourth time. The first three modems (two Xyxels and I forgot the brand of the first one) kept dying on me. Now I have a SpeedStream 5100. So you'd think everything's okay, right? Well, not quite. I don't know what came to the PLDT tech support's head when he installed the modem. The modem config came with only one DNS entry, and the search directive contains this line: search domain.invalid Due to this, and the usually busy DNS, I'm having a hard time browsing. Heck, I can't even do a decent dig without the connection timing out. A simple remedy would be to just replace the offending config in the modem, but I don't want to mess around with the modem so I'm doing it at the client side. I'd have to delete the search directive and add a new nameserver entry into /etc/resolv.conf : sudo sed -e '1,2d' -e '/^name/i \nameserver 202.90.128.3' -i etc/resolv.conf All I have to do is just place the...

Printed posters for presentation to the Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines (FCSSP) conference tomorrow in Cagayan de Oro City. Written second-quarter accomplishment report.