Monthly Archives: August 2005

Ninoy’s Cell

Posted on August 21, 2005 by deebeedee

Today is apparently Ninoy’s 22nd death anniversary according to a couple of blogs I regularly visit. When Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino was assassinated in 1983, my family and I had only been living here in the United States for…  Read more

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Camp Wi-Fi

Posted on August 19, 2005 by deebeedee

I’m in a tent… at camp*… in the Santa Cruz mountains… typing this post… just so I can say I’ve done so.

*yup, same one as last year’s, but I didn’t bring my laptop then. The wi-fi…  Read more

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Mac Violence

Posted on August 17, 2005 by deebeedee

I got a distressing call from my boss this evening about a robbery at our Palo Alto store. The manager of the store was the only one present during closing time when an armed robber forced his way in. He…  Read more

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Virtual Hosting Rocks

Posted on August 16, 2005 by deebeedee

I finally enabled Virtual Hosting on my Mac. It’s great. I get to develop different sites with every single one of them using root-relative paths. No more searching and replacing relative paths with absolute server paths before FTP’ing files. Pretty…  Read more

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Of Philippine Signs and Toilets

Posted on August 15, 2005 by deebeedee

I got a bit of downtime right now. I’ve been busy juggling a couple of projects. I’m posting here some snapshots of signs I took from our Philippine trip last month.

I saw these on the roof of the Olongapo…  Read more

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