Coredump

Sort of. Just stumbled upon this while reviewing my Flickr account: a university lecturer in Australia used my (and a couple of other Flickr members') mugshot in the cover for her compilation of readings . How cool is that? Okay, so this is very ancient, but still, it's a great ego boost. Not! But it's nice, really.

'Nuff said. Happy Fathers' Day!

...Is great, although a bit unsettling. In a nutshell: The chrome looks cool, as one would expect from Apple. Anti-aliasing is a bit off, though. The recommended setting for TFT is medium but it's still a little off. The pages load faster, as advertised. And the progress bar on the address, er, bar? Nifty! Tabbed browsing! But why do I have to right-click to open a new tab? I don't know about memory or crash issues, haven't encountered them yet (hope I don't) but hey, this is a beta release -- live with that. And, oh, this requires a place all its own: the coolest feature I saw in Safari is the inline search highlighting. If only it has the same vi -like keyboard binding (the "slash" key) like Firefox has.

Recently bought a Sony Ericsson K610i (very cheap, and very good -- so far). Using my prepaid SIM, I connected to Smart 3G. It was frustrating at first since I can't seem to be able to connect, but after tweaking with the settings (dumbness on my part -- I never really had to add nor change anything), I was finally able to browse the internet. The result: As compared with Robinsons Galleria's free WiFi connection:

(I'm using The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Ortigas Park branch free WiFi, courtesy of GlobeQuest. The signal's weak (at -73 dBM, according to my Dell WLAN Card Utility) so I'm getting lots of timeout, even for the more resilient Google Talk connection.) I just got back from the province. Our four-month-old son, Julian, got out of the hospital last Monday after being rushed there last week for high fever. He had a urinary tract infection that resulted in a 40-degree fever that almost caused him to go into convulsions. Thankfully, he got out of it pretty fast. Additional tests showed that there were no other ailments -- his kidneys and bladder were fine. It's always very stressful when someone in the family gets sick, specially the young ones. I still vividly remember when the eldest, Gabriel, was also admitted to the hospital for bronchitis when he was still two months old. We had to leave him in the pediatric ICU overnight for observation. It was painful seeing our child t...