Download it from here.

So yesterday I attended PHPUGPH’s Meetup at The Mob (Market! Market!). Roy of Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) and I won a camping chair from the raffle courtesy of TXTDomain. Congratulations to Clod (aka r00t) and his team for organizing the event.

After that, I checked out Pakshirts at Habi House. I usually don’t spend for shirts. The last time I bought one was when I was in high school. You probably won’t believe that the FILA, Converse and No Fear shirts that I wear are from my sixth grade.

When I found the shirt that I liked, the lady told me she didn’t have change. I was trying to kill time since it was still rush hour so I did the trouble of looking for change. I never bothered this much for one shirt. I discovered that Serendra is the kind of place where you’re meant to spend four to five digits. I had trouble looking for a place where I only had to spend less than a hundred Pesos to get change.

This is what you’d call a real plaza. There were lots of nice sculptures and fountains. There’s this one fountain that had a boulder mounted on a huge tripod and it had water falling down (so it’s actually a waterfall?). I’m too lazy to look for a picture, so it’s best that you check it out for yourself.

Habi House is an art gallery that features paintings by a certain artist every two weeks. Yes, I did a mini-interview on the Habi House lady. At least there’s a story for the trouble of getting one shirt and the last for this design. All for the sake of local art (…and fashion).

I really liked the one-liners but I’m the type of person that prefers cotton shirts. The shirt is made of a very elastic material. I’ll just give this as a gift.

As requested by Rick of Project Manila and for Sir Pat, here’s a picture of the shirt enjoying the camping chair that I got for free.

I just found a GMail Notifier for Gnome! It’s installed and working on my laptop running FC6. Should I write anything else?

Many thanks to Bradley Worley for this indespensible little app.

Just another quick one. I’m starting to find GAIM’s Buddy Pounce feature very handy.

I use it to send a message when a contact goes online. Very useful when I need to tell someone something that needs realtime response. Saves me the time of checking my buddy list everytime and looking out for notifications. Here’s an article to get you started.

I didn’t know that the local PHP users’ group has been more active lately. Details are a bit confusing as of now finalized (as of April 22, 2007).

PHPUGPH EB
14.00-17.00 April 28, 2007
Mob Café
4th Level, Market! Market!, Global City
Philippines

More info at this thread also posted at the PHP website.

Nothing big but something that will make returning to an Elgg site a better experience. This plugin provides a template keyword that displays the recent comments in an unordered list. grep helped me with searching for those undocumented functions.

Elgg is an open source social networking plaftform based around choice, flexibility and openness[...]

See it in action over here.

Sony did the same thing with their Vaio. Now, Novel is riding the bandwagon too.

Honestly, there are more chicks that are hotter out there. They should’ve done the XGL cube on the chick’s head. That would sooooo kick ass! Anyway, I like this one better.

Novel is a sponsor of SuSE, a Linux distribution, and made a deal with Microsoft a few months ago. You can watch the original Get-A-Mac ads here.

Source: PLUG Technical Mailing List

Frank: Baaaah. LJ has a new IM Service!
LJ user: Why would I want another one?
Frank: Because your LJ friends automatically show up in your buddy list & you can post to LJ from it!
LJ user: That sounds so awesome and easy!

LiveJournal (LJ) was bought by Six Apart 2 years ago. Frank is LJ’s mascot (a goat).

Holy shit! They ported OpenTTD to the PSP and Nokia N770(N800)!

Today was the election for the next batch of Student Council members. I didn’t vote. I got to check out the tallying before I went home.

I wonder why they never thought of using computerized voting machines. It would be just like the real thing. Specially if the losing party claims that they were cheated.

They could’ve tried Halalan, an open source voting system maintained by UnPLUG (UP Linux Users’ Group).

The slow counting is probably more appealling because it’s more exciting. Not to mention that it’s so much fun to watch your opponent experience a slow and painful loss. Imagine every strike at your chart as an individual stab to his/her gut. Then after the results are announced, you shake your opponent’s hand with a grin on your face.