Can’t believe I just installed this plugin a week ago.
It’s so useful.
I initially installed this plugin as part of my efforts to regain control of my web presence and in some ways divorce myself from the tyranny of facebook, but beyond these abstract goals if you have a self hosted wordpress blog and you don’t have the Jetpack plugin installed then you are missing out on a lot of awesome out of the box features that you could be enjoying right now.
I’d like to discuss the features in future post. That is how awesome I think this plugin is.
OT: These 30-40 minute server deployments are irritating because 30 minutes just ain’t enough for significant features/bugs development and because minor bugs are reserved as a learning exercise for the OJT/junior Devs it affords me the time to write this while waiting for these servers to go online.
rePost:8 annoying messages you encounter when selling things online | Calvin's Hub
Why I’d rather just gift something rather than sell it!
In a perfect world, buyers and sellers won’t have to expend a lot of messages back and forth just to agree on a transaction without stiffing one another. But we’re not in a perfect world are we?
I’m doing a kind of 8-list thingy with this topic here and to make it hit my point, I’ll be writing it in English and Filipino.
via 8 annoying messages you encounter when selling things online | Calvin’s Hub.
personal:: How to set time in ALP K2 WS-910 Blood Pressure Monitor
First press the power button and hold. Wait till 0 appears
Press the memory button and hold. Wait till two o appear one on top of each other. and afterwards turn into a small number mid bottom.
Press the memory button to cycle through year month day hour and minute. Use the Power button to change the value of the current field.
Have to go home early not feeling well.
SC junks Comelec limits on airtime of political ads
This is how you do something when the GODS? of the black robes issue their commandments. Find another way to do the same thing. What we have to control is not simply the spending of candidates but the superpac style funding of these candidates. What I mean is the “Paid for by the Friends of <INSERT CANDIDATE HERE>”. Although It is a given that people who believe in their candidates really do pay for some ads, this has just become another way of circumventing the spirit of the law because dummy corporation/dummy foundations/individual fronts are the norm in our country. Although I believe that this really is freedom of speech there should be a mechanism that exposes these fronts that make a mockery of our election system. I am honestly still thinking how this can be done in a land where the interest of the rich and powerful trump moves that give life to our economy.
“With this new decision, the Supreme Court effectively obliterated a statutory mechanism to level the playing field by setting a cap on the quantity of media exposure candidates can buy,” the poll body said.
Comelec, however, claims it will no longer pursue a motion for reconsideration, and that it “vows to impose stricter campaign finance regulations – particularly on expense monitoring and documentary requirements – for the upcoming 2016 elections.”
via SC junks Comelec limits on airtime of political ads.
Windows Tip: Opening Command Prompt to a specific folder from GUI
I just noticed somebody who was using windows 7 and was opening a command prompt console using start menu and typing the path.
No problem with this except there is a simpler way.
For windows 7 just press the <SHIFT> key and right-click the folder and choose “Open command window here”.
This works for shortcuts and for whenever you have a windows explorer open and suddenly need to do something from the command line.
Also if you are using Ubuntu there is a package you can install to do something similar. The package is nautilus-open-terminal.
For windows XP: Why the hell are you still using Windows XP? Just google it, or better yet install a newer os like the latest ubuntu.
Online freelance workers get support from Bam Aquino | ABS-CBN News
Aquino encouraged the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Science and Technology -ICT to craft an e-Commerce Roadmap that will help concerned stakeholders, especially in terms of Internet speed and access.
“The rate of Internet access has increased about 10 to 15 percent since 2010 as a whole. The more we increase our Internet usage and Internet penetration, we are looking at a space where we can generate employment,” the senator said.
Aquino also urged the Bureau of Internal Revenue and DTI to relax their registration rules and provide incentives to encourage online-based workers to get into the formal economy.
“Let’s not cast fear among the online freelancers, if we can get them into a nurturing environment, we can actually help their businesses grow. Once they grow, they will provide employment, provide for their families and it will go back to the economy anyway,” he said.
“Let’s review the Barangay Micro Business Enterprise Law or BMBE Law –which exempts a business owner from paying income tax as long as its assets are not higher than P3 million, and see how it can be applied to online freelancers.”
via Online freelance workers get support from Bam Aquino | ABS-CBN News.
The Ten Best TV Shows of 2012 | Filmmaker Magazine
Have to check this out one of these days!
1. Adventure Time
Yes, a children’s cartoon about a human boy and his talking dog is the best show on TV. I’ll try to explain.
Adventure Time has been on the air essentially nonstop since its Cartoon Network premiere in 2010 (though technically, season five began a few weeks ago). On paper, the show might sound indistinguishable from any other kid’s show – each week we follow the ramshackle adventures of Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, two best buds who travel the magical Land of Ooo, a storybook world populated by characters like Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and Cinnamon Bun (who is, you guessed it, a talking cinnamon bun). Stylistically, though, the show is like nothing you’ve ever seen before – a caffeinated mixtape of post-Sega Genesis anime, autotune soundtrack, the visuals of Milton Bradley’s Candy Land as re-imagined by David Lynch, and a big, huge, weird, pubescent heart.
I could go on and on about “I Remember You”, the best 11-minutes of television I saw this year – a devastating parable about coping with an aging loved one’s dementia. Or “Sons of Mars,” a trippy epic that posits Abraham Lincoln as a Christ-like deity, and ends with a tiny lion-unicorn hybrid being freed from a glass bottle and flying off into the sky screaming, “My new prison is shame!” Or the fact that repeat viewers will come to realize that the magical Land of Ooo is actually a future version of Earth, ravaged from nuclear war. Or the terrifying “King Worm.” Or the thinly-veiled masturbation metaphor of “All the Little People.” Or lines of dialogue that I haven’t been able to shake from my head since I first heard them (“This bear is tops blooby,” “In the tree, part of the tree,” “I don’t know if my little boy heart can take it.”)
But this is all stuff better experienced that explained, I promise. I don’t care how old you are, Adventure Time will make you remember what an awesome, terrifying sugar-rush it is to be young.
via The Ten Best TV Shows of 2012 | Filmmaker Magazine.
The Blackmagic Production Camera and Pocket Camera: A Review | Filmmaker Magazine
If I had a bucket list it would include making movies people love. File this one on stuff I’d eventually use for this I’d love to do someday!
Why do I prefer Blackmagic cameras? Really simple: I like the picture quality.
I reviewed the Cinema Camera for Filmmaker last fall, so now I’m going to focus on the Production Camera — which I tested for two weeks in July — and, to a lesser extent, the Pocket Camera, which I’ve owned since January.
via The Blackmagic Production Camera and Pocket Camera: A Review | Filmmaker Magazine.
Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots – Health News : NPR
But in retrospect he says it makes sense. We use “I” more when we talk to someone with power because we’re more self-conscious. We are focused on ourselves — how we’re coming across — and our language reflects that.
So could we use these insights to change ourselves? Like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, could we bend our personalities by bending the words we use? Could we become stronger? More powerful? Healthier?
After 20 years of looking at this stuff, Pennebaker doubts it.
“The words reflect who we are more than [they] drive who we are,” he says.
You can’t, he believes, change who you are by changing your language; you can only change your language by changing who you are. He says that’s what his research indicates.
via Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots – Health News : NPR.
rePost::“They Sound ‘Now’”: Raymund Talks New E-Heads Tracks (And More); Unmissable!
Along with his actual beverage, Raymund Marasigan was swilling down the rhymes and rhythms of rap act Skarm: always an appreciative man despite his stature, always the sort to savor good work and not merely wolf it down, no matter the source. “Tapusin ko lang si Skarm, ha,” he said when I asked for a few minutes of his time, his head still mildly bobbing despite his distance from the sound source, dancing without dancing, in place but never stationary. As soon as the duo was up, he reemerged, equally eager about some other band’s new music: the Eraserheads’, a sort of wily phantasm that has evaded its fans and, well, the band itself for over a decade. I mean, everything’s coming up roses now, but the quartet did break up, and a teary reassembly wasn’t going to materialize right after “graduation.” Hindsight and the passing of time were luxuries then, but they are within reach and much needed now. A wordless penance, or maybe even shared wordlessness itself, was a requisite prelude. And now we have this: a band that, though not reunited, has played shows here and abroad; a foursome that has, ultimately, mended whatever needed mending. Fans weren’t asking for anything more. News of new material from them, then, was received like the cure for some incurable malady.
via “They Sound ‘Now’”: Raymund Talks New E-Heads Tracks (And More); Unmissable!.