old stuff from October, 2006

firefox 2.0 early

Tuesday, 24 October 2006 6:35 am by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

mozilla released firefox 2.0 a day early. i just installed the thing and some of my themes and one extension (del.icio.us) doesn’t work. its a little bit frustrating but it doesn’t break anything major. more importantly, it doesn’t break any web projects i’m working on. yey! its a little faster too. and i noticed there’s [...]

my gpg public key

Sunday, 22 October 2006 6:56 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, software, stuff

will the amount of bounced mail i’m getting from e-mails i haven’t even sent, i figured someone’s been sending e-mails as me or as a non-existent user in my domain. so i dusted off my pgp keys and use gpg to sign my “official” mails. here’s my pubic key. i’ll update it on the keyservers [...]

an rss fed home page

Friday, 20 October 2006 10:14 pm by noel
posted in software, web development, wordpress

i am in the process of revising the home page of the domain and i thought that putting the headlines of my we+blog in my section of the home page would be cool. what i wanted to do was to take the rss feed from this blog, mash it up and just show bits of [...]

ie7 released

Thursday, 19 October 2006 6:33 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

well, after a long while microsoft finally released internet explorer 7. it’s a short download and install but it does ask you to validate windows before installing anything. after a couple of reboots, ie7 is installed in the computer. so off i go to the acid2 test and here’s what i get. i did a [...]

paypal available

Saturday, 14 October 2006 6:41 am by noel
posted in internet, stuff

paypal is now available in the philippines. the downside is that you can only send money (as of this writing). receiving is not an option yet. well, its a start.