Monthly Archives: September 2003

My Mac Speaks Tagalog

By danieldyl | Published: September 27, 2003

Here is my Macintosh reading the Panatang Makabayan (mp3, 604k).
A few posts ago, I mentioned I was going to find a way to record my Mac’s text-to-speech voice. Well, I found a couple of Applescripts at VersionTracker that does just that. Easy enough. The hard part was getting my Mac to speak in Tagalog. I [...]

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10,000th Visit!

By danieldyl | Published: September 24, 2003

For what it’s worth, I got my 10,000th visit a few moments ago.
Congrats to whomever visited.
[update: I realized it's more accurate to call it visit rather than visitor]

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Bag of Bones

By danieldyl | Published: September 23, 2003

      The Philippine archipelago has always looked to me like fossilized dinosaur bones. Luzon is the skull, the Bicol peninsula and Samar form the spine, the rest of Visayas form the rib cage, Palawan acts as an overextended front limb, Mindanao’s the hip bone and the Sulu islands are fragments of shattered hind legs.

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Luther

By danieldyl | Published: September 19, 2003

A film on the life of Martin Luther is coming out this month. The church’s most famous reformer is played by Joseph Fiennes. Shouldn’t he have been played by Alfred Molina (who is also in the movie) instead?

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Nice Rice

By danieldyl | Published: September 18, 2003

Generation Rice sports a new look.

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