old stuff from October, 2007

blahing equipment

Monday, 15 October 2007 10:15 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

this is a rant. i’m saying it now so that if you don’t like rants you can and should skip this entry.
the monitor of my windows desktop started going blinky-blinky on me. i mean, its like looking at websites through a dimmed out kaleidoscope. and the screen’s getting darker!! barf. well, the thing is around [...]

new mp3 player

Sunday, 14 October 2007 10:58 am by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

i got myself a new mp3 player — it just happens to look like a cell phone. really. and its cheap! the 128 meg memory stick micro (m2) ™ that came with it was a wee bit too small for my needs so i bumped it to 2 gig. that’s plenty music right there. [...]

new y! mail

Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:59 am by noel
posted in e-mail, internet

yup. it looks like its out but i haven’t seen any official announcements yet.

but (there’s always a “but”, isn’t there?) i do have a small gripe. i have a couple of mail accounts in yahoo. here’s how it looks like on the beta interface:

the problem i have with the new interface is i suddenly do [...]

hot air

Wednesday, 10 October 2007 8:18 am by noel
posted in software, stuff

its hot air. lots of it. some people call it fud.
and here’s some cold water.

microsoft fonts on ubuntu

Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:12 pm by noel
posted in linux, software, web development

i, being part web dev, had to make sure that the fonts i used are “standard” web fonts. in the name interoperability, microsoft released its true type core fonts years ago. its was a free download and, in a way, successful in its intended purpose — a large number of websites use it because of [...]