Mr. Pol Galvez - Filipino Cartoonist
Sunday, January 26th, 2003The father of my best buddy Dennis gets a write-up in the Philippine News. Pol Galvez drew political cartoons and the comic strip, Sanoy, for the Bulletin Today.
Archive for January, 2003
Salon’s New Deal
Friday, January 24th, 2003There are now two ways to access Salon’s articles: either subscribe or click through their ads.
Moved to Movable Type
Thursday, January 23rd, 2003I’m free from Blogger! I successfully migrated everything over to Movable Type. I like MT’s import feature which allowed me to bring over my entries from Blogger. It was relatively painless. But the work is not over. I have yet to configure the archive, comment and trackback pages to reflect the look and feel of the index page.
Blogger has had many outages lately, especially after midnight. (Personally, I think it’s a ploy to get us free users to upgrade to Blogger Pro, since Blogger Pro servers work fine in the same time frame!) Anyway, I can post whenever I want now, and I have a comment feature to boot!
20th Anniversary
Thursday, January 23rd, 2003Exactly twenty years ago, on January 23, 1983, I set foot on American soil for the very first time. I arrived from the Philippines and haven’t gone back since. And why haven’t I? Hmmm, I never really planned for it really. But I would like to go someday especially with the kids in order to show them the motherland. Although most of my relatives are here already, there are a few who are still there (and doing quite well, so no reason to move here) whom I would like to visit. My parents vacationed there this past Christmas. My brother visited a couple of years ago and had a blast. They say I wouldn’t recognize Manila anymore.
Sitting in the Dark
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003I was in a bathroom stall at work when the automated lights turned off on me. How embarrassing. No amount of vigorous flailing of my arms turned the lights on. I doubt “clap on,” “clap off” would’ve worked either. The rest of this incident is better left untold…