old stuff from October, 2006

a computer book in grade school

Friday, 13 October 2006 5:29 pm by noel
posted in software, stuff

i was looking over the computer book that my son uses in school. it has the usual stuff about the computer, its history and its components written in 63 pages — within three chapters (the book has only five). the rest of the chapters is about using windows and its accessories (92 pages).
the first thought [...]

battery cooler

Friday, 6 October 2006 7:08 am by noel
posted in stuff

during the blackout period after the storm i found myself twiddling thumbs. i don’t like that. there was no electricity so using the computer was not on the list that i can do. i came up with the idea of making a rechargeable battery cooler with the extra stuff i have.

i used to play with [...]

php include in yahoo

Thursday, 5 October 2006 4:41 pm by noel
posted in internet, site, web development

this tip applies to those who what to use php in their yahoo webhosting package.
you can put the php include files in the root subdirectory (.) which would makes things a bit messy in the long run. to keep things organized create an subdirectory named “include” from the root directory. this is where your included [...]

returned mails

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 4:04 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, stuff

i’ve been getting a lot of returned mails lately — around 40 for the past 24 hours. what’s weird is that i haven’t sent more than three e-mails for the past few days. i took a look at the headers and apparently the return addresses (in my domain) in the sent mail doesn’t exist. which [...]

the storm and me

Sunday, 1 October 2006 6:37 pm by noel
posted in stuff

milenyo — the name of the storm that struck this part of the world last thursday, 28 september left us without electricity for more than 3 days. it felt more like five days. the power just got back around 5 pm today. i don’t know if i should try to catch up with the news [...]