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UPDATE : It's finally up, my review of 2007 in pictures , cover-flow style. I'm building up a review of 2007, using Flickr photos. Nothing spectacular -- just a retrospective tool for me. We have had many blessings this year, and what better way to reminisce than through pictures. For now, I'm collecting photos from various sources, one of which is provided by Flickr:

Originally uploaded by iandexter . At SMX, SM Mall of Asia. Lots of prizes were given away, but none came my way. Still, it was fun. One word: Mocha . :D

Just a quickie. Movable Type is now open source (under GPL), so I'm testing it out. Like Wordpress, it's very easy to install. Provided you have the database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite), all you have to do is $ wget http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/nightlies/MTOS-4.1-en-boomer-r1116-20071214.tar.gz $ tar xzvf MTOS-4.1-en-boomer-r1116-20071214.tar.gz $ mv MTOS-4.1-en-boomer-r1116-20071214/* . Then browse to http://domain.name/path/to/your/MT/install, and follow the prompts. Nightly builds are available, but if you want the bleeding edge, you can grab it through SVN (there's an extra make me step, though). The interface is intuitive, with the dashboard having that warm AJAXy feel, but it was a little too slow for my taste. Applying new styles (or "themes", in Wordpress parlance) is as easy as select and apply, but adding widgets is counter-intuitive: you'd have to edit the style manually to add the widget code snippet. The mix of Perl and PHP code is...

I was browsing through my blog archive, when I came across this site: Primal Scream , one of my first web "design" -- yuck, tables! But I did get around to using CSS (I was enthralled by z-index -- now *that's* a catchy phrase) later on with &c . Which is actually a convoluted segue to the subject of this post: my favorite poets. Here's the intro in full (duplicate content be damned): Thus wrought the masters FILMS, textbooks, your occasional cornball greeting card. You may have encountered their works in more mundane settings, but that does not make them any less great. Or edifying. Or enticing. However you may have met them, they still bring out from you deep-seated feelings, long-hidden traumas, heavily suppressed memories. That’s why they are so great -- they have achieved what every poet aims for: to touch the lives of those who read their words. W. H. Auden My first encounter with Auden was in the romantic comedy, Four Weddings and a Funeral . Who could for...

It was another movie night for all company employees. I missed the previous movie nights ( Beowulf , for one), so I wasn't about to miss out on the last one for the year. Based on Philip Pullman 's Northern Lights (part of his Dark Materials trilogy -- ohnoes, not another one!), the film portrays the quest of an orphan destined to lead the fight against evil, for -- among others -- free will and self-determination. The antagonist is the evil authoritarian Magisterium, a finicky antagonist, and a bit O.C., too, what with its obsession against "dust". The visuals are stunning, as one would expect from any multimillion-dollar fantasy flick, and the actors are quite engaging. Nicole Kidman's character, the Coulter "woman", is a cunning villain who plots and does the Magisterium's bidding. James Bond's Daniel Craig is also cast in an almost cameo role -- heck, we only see him for about 15 minutes, tops. What was embedded in my mind, though, are the...

Sweet GMail labels oozing with Googly goodness. Kinda reminds me of the Label Colors Greasemonkey script, done by -- surprise! -- a Google engineer off his 20% . Okay, now how do I turn this thing off?

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