Funny Jokes on Politics

Here's another joke I have stumbled upon at my iGoogle joke feed. I won't be discussing much about this.

Enjoy!

A thief stuck a pistol in a man's ribs and said, "Give me your money."

The gentleman, shocked by the sudden attack, said "You cannot do this, I'm a United States congressman!"

The thief said, "In that case, give me my money!"

ntldr is missing : Problem Solved

Earlier tonight, my mother-in-law's desktop with Windows XP installed was in trouble tonight particularly NTLDR is missing file press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart.

This was actually the second time it happens at the said PC. The solution I did the first time I encountered the NTLDR is missing error was to simply obtained a copy from my PC and viola it works. Tonight is quite different, my pc is still out of service so I can't slave the hard disk of the PC with the said error. Which I actually did to copy the missing system file.

Since I will be bothering our neighbor for me to implement the first solution, this time around I tried another solution. What I did was to run the Windows XP CD and installed a new one. Reformat? not really. I just installed a new Windows at the default drive which is C:\. During the installation, it has detected a folder Windows and the installer asked two question, sounds like, do I want to overwrite the same folder or use another. Of course I choose another folder and named it Windows2.

After the installation process, I expect it would be a dual-boot but it wasn't really. So, I just opened the newly installed Windows XP. Hmm everything was intact and checked the system files such as ntldr, ntuser, ntdetect and boot are existing. With that, I decided to edit the boot.ini file with the following details:

After installing new Windows XP at Windows2 folder of drive C:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows2
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows2="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn






Edited with this

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn





Technically, I just pointed the boot file to locate the previous Windows XP installtion. Pressed restart and viola.It works as usual. No installation of sound, videocard drivers and other softwares. NTLDR is missing solved. Hope I've shared helpful solution.

Activists have shut down climate destroyers in Indonesia!

Good News! I'm glad that a climate destroyer from Indonesia was shut down by activists. I'm really proud to be a member of the group Greenpeace. I may not be actively blogging about climate change but deep inside me I admit I will be the one directly affected by effects of climate change.

Let's make a difference.

By the way, here's the details of the latest accomplishment of the activist from Indonesia.

Greenpeace action underway now in the Indonesian rainforest!

Activists are stopping climate destruction now!

Early today 13 activists locked down cranes at one of the largest pulp and paper mills in the world and 4 activists still remain - as this e-mail was sent operations at the export facility had been stopped for 9 hours already.

Deforestation is a root cause of climate change - contributing approximately 1/5 of global greenhouse gas emissions - and the Indonesian rainforest is one of the frontlines of forest destruction.

There are only 11 days remaining until the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen and our activists are sending a clear message to world leaders: they must avert climate chaos and end tropical deforestation by agreeing to a fair, ambitious and legally binding climate deal at the Summit.

Get the latest updates from the action and support our climate defenders!

Taylor Swift Dead?

Yet another hoax spreading like wildfire. This might be another hate campaign against Taylor Swift. If she's dead official news will be realease in popular sites like Yahoo! or TMZ.

Before believing or spreading the news Taylor Swift is dead please have time to search more info about it from reliable sources and not just from any sites.










Also, enjoy watching her music video below which won from MTV awards which became controversial because of Kanye West's on-stage protest when Taylor Swift received her award.

Enjoyed watching Miss California Carrie Prejean On Larry King

What can you say about the interview of Larry King with Carrie Prejean? Is it inappropriate?

Watch the video below and leave your comment.

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Disgraced Miss California Acts Like 3-Year Old On Larry King

Watch Live! Free Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Fight

November 14 (November 15 - Philippine time) is the most awaited date of all Filipinos be it boxing enthusiasts or just a regular viewer like me. Manny Pacquiao will be giving all he can to defeat the Puerto Rican boxing star Miguel Cotto.

If you also want to watch the live streaming of Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto fight you may bookmark this page
and come back during the fight.

I will put the video below once live streaming is available.

 Alternatively, you can also download SOPcast player (popular player for live streaming videos) and have it installed to your computer.You may also directly download at the following links.

http://download.pchome.net (PCHome)
http://sopcast.fuerzw.de/
http://www.computerbild.de/
http://SopCast.References.TV
http://cnc1.sopcast.com
http://cnc2.sopcast.com
http://ct1.sopcast.com

After installing the SOPcast player, run the program and login as anonymous and provide the following channels.

sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/24267
sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/6002
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/7524
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/69756
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/51813

Enjoy!

Casualty walkthrough | Causality walkthrough

I was bloghopping today and found out this video of the game called Casualty walkthrough.Very funny and brutal though it's just sticky characters.

Enjoy and watch the video below.

DC Sniper Execution | Muhammad Execution

Mastermind of the sniper attacks in 2002 named John Allen Muhammad was finally executed at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, VA prison. Died by lethal injection at around 9:11 p.m. Tuesday. Muhammad's accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced life imprisonment. Now, DC sniper execution ended the long agonies of the victims' families. 

A report from USA today.

JARRATT, Va. — John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 deadly sniper rampage that terrorized the nation's capital, was executed Tuesday evening.

Many of his victims' relatives watched as Muhammad was administered a lethal injection of drugs. The execution came more than seven years after the 48-year-old Gulf War veteran and his young accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 24, killed 10 people and wounded six others. Malvo is serving a life prison sentence.

A prison spokesman says John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center.

Prison spokesman Larry Traylor says Muhammad had no final words. He says he didn't hear him utter a word the entire time.

Sesame Street Ensemble | Google Doodle |

We have seen in the past days about the changes in Google logo or commonly called as Google doodle which started from Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert & Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo and Count Von Count.

Big bird
I believe this is Google's final doodle as their tribute to the 40th anniversary of the America's longest running television show Sesame Street.

The Sesame Street Google's doodle is really worth compiling. Somehow the occassion really did remind me of my childhood days.Sesame Street is really an entertaining and child-friendly show.

If you want to know more about the show Sesame Street, you may visit this Wikipedia entry.

Count Von Count | 6008l3 l Sesame street

Count Von Count, yet another Sesame Street muppet has been featured today by Google as part of their tribute to the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.

Have you noticed the 600l3? Just guess it. Every Sesame Street fan or viewer knows very well how he counts. Laughing like a dracula on each number he counts is one of his characeristics.

Somehow, Count von Count character is very education for children who watches Sesame Street because it makes counting more fun and enjoyable to them. This may also change children's perception about the scary vampire Count Dracula.

We'll expect a few more Sesame Street muppet as Google's tribute.

Related posts.

Elmo | Sesame Street Google doodle

Oscar the Grouch | Sesame Street

Bert & Ernie | Sesame Street

Cookie Monster | Google doodle

 

Elmo | Sesame Street Google doodle

Whew. As I mentioned from my last post Oscar the Grouch I'll be expecting my most favorite muppet from the tv show Sesame Street Elmo.

That rocks! "Elmo loves to hug". The line that reminds me of him always. Most Elmo's segment are featuring singers or bands which they sing the artist's popular song and change the lyrics into an educational one.
The last time I watched was on Youtube, Elmo sang together with Chris Brown (one of the popular R&B artist). I don't really know the song they sang together but the lyrical content is more about the signages you see around you like post no bill, stop sign, open & close for stores etc. Wait, I also remember Spin Doctors that band that the popular alternative rock Two Princess. Elmo did sang with them too.

Not much of time to talk about Elmo and the rest of the Sesama Street gang. Till next posting.

You may also me interested reading this related post.

Oscar the Grouch | Sesame Street
Bert & Ernie | Sesame Street
Cookie Monster | Google doodle
Count Von Count | 6008l3 l Sesame street

Oscar the Grouch | Sesame Street

Inline with the 40th Anniversary of the children tv show Sesame Street here comes another Google doodle. It's Oscar the grouch, the Muppet that lives inside the garbage can. In the previous days, Cookie Monster, Big Bird and Bert & Ernie were featured as Google doodle. I'm guessing tomorrow will be Elmo. This must be a series of Google doodle featuring the Sesame Street gang.

Some facts about Oscar the grouch, he loves trash and the proof to this is the song "I love trash" that he always sings. From Wikipedia,

Oscar is named after Oscar Brand, a musician and one of the early board members of the Children's Television Workshop during Sesame Street's development in the late 1960s.

If you want to know more about Oscar the grouch, you visit his Wikipedia entry here.

Again, Happy 40th Anniversary to Sesame Street

Bert & Ernie | Sesame Street

Yesterday, Google featured Cookie Monster doodle which really makes me happy. With that post, it reminds of the room mates from the Sesame Street gang which are Bert & Ernie. The fellow are also fun to watch but I don't really like the two,  I'm sorry to kids or say adult like me who used to watch Sesame Street.

Do you also notice Bert & Ernie's color yellow and orange? What can you say or think of? Actually, the two implies Banana and Orange ;). What really annoys me when I watched them before is that they look likes gay to me. Again, sorry to those who likes the two.

I'm not posting here to make fun of the two. One more thing, in Philippines we have a rap-artist named Andrew E. which I think looks like Ernie, the one holding a rubber duck from the photo. Incidentally, Andrew E. has a song Rubber Dickie. Now, it makes me wonder, does E from Andrew E. means Ernie? Btw, if you want to see Andrew rapping, you watch from this post. He's wearing green shirt here.

Fun fact: Do you know that in Cotabato City we have a street named Sesame Street? Well, Cotabato City is really a child friendly city that's why we have a street named after a children show. (Honestly, I don't really know the story behind). Maybe or just maybe, it has been a street where people likes to watch Sesame Street and loves Bert and Ernie. The street is located at De Mazenod Avenue just below the Iglesia ni Cristo church.

Why does Bert have to much eyebrows while Ernie doesn't even have any? Maybe next time I'll be posting about Oscar. Hmm

TGIF - TGIFI - meaning

Google has been a friend to me for years now. Searching anything that I want know or have. On November 1, Hakuna Matata posted an article about the new acronym JFGI or simply means Just F**king Google It. An answer to those who asks simple or stupid questions which can easily found over the Internet.

Today it's Friday, last day of work (for those people working Monday to Friday 8am-5pm) for this week means will be having a two days rest. Most of my friends and colleagues are saying TGIF which means Thank God it's Friday, very popular acronym who loves Friday. Earlier, someone from my Plurk posted TGIF then I posted my own definition, The Google Is Frightening hehe..we should not of course that's why I re-post The Google is Friendly. Indeed, Google has been really friendly to me.

Not much of a time to waste here. How bout, TGIFI - Thanks Google I Found It.. I don't know if someone have already defined this. These are just my thoughts today.

Cookie Monster | Google doodle

I'm so glad today Google featured my favorite Sesame Street character named Cookie Monster. This is in recognition to Sesame's its 40th anniversary. It reminds of my grade school days when I have to go home early just catch up the afternoon slot of Sesame Street. Though it was even re-scheduled in the morning.

Sesame Street song, "Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away!" now lingers in my head. I also enjoys dubbing his voice until now. "Cookie monster loves to eat to cookie". I also remember his song "I wish the moon is a cookie " or sort of, and he ended the song in dark place because he ate the moon. That's my childhood memories with Cookie Monster.

Good thing Google featured Cookie Monster today. By the way, in some region Big bird was featured by Google.

Rock on Cookie Monster. I hope next time Elmo will be featured too.

As promised : WP theme to Drupal Theme

First, I would like to ask for a little understanding to Drupal community particulary to this thread and its poster. Sorry for a little delays. As you know I have looked for webhost where I can put the demo page.

Without much blah blah blah..

Screenshot:

As promised, here's the demo site. You can also download it here.

Also, this theme is an opensource. Feel free to modify everything you'd like too. Please also retain the authors link particularly Paddsolutions.

Feel free to drop me a comment.

Windows 7 : Mac ad commercial

This afternoon I happened to visit one of my favorite site Mashable. What really held me from doing my work was the post Apple fires back at Windows 7 new ads. Very interesting ad. Of course as PC user with Windows XP installed, I would love to read reviews about Windows 7. A lot of Windows users have high expectations with Windows 7 particularly those who slam Windows Vista.

Here are some of the things that I don't want to experience from Windows 7.

• No more default browser (IE)
• No more blue screen of death (BSOD)
• No more lags
• No more driver required (My experience in adding networked/shared  printer in Vista was really embarassing as compare to XP, adding is just double clicking or right clicking then connect)
• No more broken promises please

I expect a better OS compares to Vista when I'll have my own Windows 7. I also remember from one of the blogpost I read, according to that post, Windows 7 will utilize well the dual-core to multi-core processors that's why I expect my PC to perform well with it.

Enjoy watching the ad commercial below. As for the ad commercial, I think Apple have gone to far with attacking Windows. It's not that I'm so into Windows, I'm actually a fan of Linux particulary Ubuntu but since in almost all places I'd go I see and work with Windows. I would love to see the Windows 7 latest ads why Apple released such ads. I'll be posting about it maybe tommorow.

Play Flash Games @ Y8.com

Looking for flash games? Try y8.com. Not really promoting the site but I just seen this by a grade school student playing at the Internet cafe owned by my neighbor. It brings out the child in me because it reminds me of the games I played during my grade school days.

In the peek of family computers, I usually play Super Mario, Street Fighter, Silver Surfer, Chip n Dale, Rockman, Bugs Bunny, Double Dragon and simple games such as Battle city, Bomberman, Rush n Attack, Arkanoid etc etc etc..Now with the power of PC's, there are already emulators or software plugins that play those classic games into your PC.

Sometimes I tend to forget to bring with me the flash drive where I put the game emulator I copied from a friend of mine. With the power of Google, I ended up playing at Y8.com where you can also play classic games and some latest games which were not in family computers.

Here are some of the latest games posted today at Y8.com

# Double Dragon 2
# Double Dragon
# Arkanoid old but full version
# Dora Saves The Prince
# Playground Kiss
# Baseball Jam
# Floodfill
# Salchunggi
# Killheads
# Rescue Game
# Ponky
# Agh! Zombies
# RedEye 1031
# Flood Fill
# Family Football
# Baby Boom Game
# Inculcation
# Cake Bakery
# Halloween Cake Style
# Halloween Jump

See? there's a lot more.

Happy Halloween : Google Doodle

Everyone around the world who observes Halloween are now making stuff that scares their friends. TV shows here and there have segments related to the upcoming Halloween.

In Philippines, Halloween or the locally called as "Araw ng mga Patay" is filled also with scary stuff. During my childhood, we share scary stories and make each of us scared to death. In generation today, most of those scary things or related to Halloween are shared in digital way. Some would send halloween comments or halloween quotes to their friends social sites profile such as Facebook, Friendster, Myspace and etc.

If you are looking for halloween comments or halloween quotes you can check the following sites.

• Myspacecomments 
• Glitterbell
  

Google today also made another doodle in relevance to the Halloween. You can also Google halloween comments and halloween quotes to obtain more sites results.

Wordpress debugging : CformsII, Jcarousel and Timthumb

Just blogging my debugging experience  in Wordpress.

First problem encountered : Timthumb.php by Darrent Hoyt not displaying the resized images.

Solution: First thing to do is to check the file permissions properties of the temp/cache folder where your timthumb.php stores its temporary files is set to 777. This is also part of the timthumb instructions so don't hesitate to visit their site. If this doesn't solved your problem, you can also try contacting your host because I noticed it will give an Error 403 or 500 which is particularly in security issues. By searching the Wordpress forum I found a solution at this thread . It was suggested to use relative path of the images. Solution is straightforward, you just have to omit from the path of images your url address and leaving only "/wp-content/uploads/bigs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1". I immediately tried copying the URL of the image and paste it to the address bar of my browser, removed the address of the site with the following sample.

Working
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/big_boobs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1

Error
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=http://www.address.com/wp-content/uploads/big.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1


Second Problem : Conflict between Jquery's plugin Jcarousel and WP plugin CformsII

After the first problem was solved, I noticed another problem from the Jcarousel. Both navigation buttons of the carousel was not displayed eventhough the its background was already loaded. I suspected some javascript or css files are doing it.

What I did was, I copied the source in plain HTML and save it to my local disk. Initially, I removed some css and javascripts pre-loaded by some WP plugins. The last plugins' javascript and css I removed was from Cforms II, upon refreshing the page the navigation buttons of Jcarousel magically appeared again. Until now I'm still looking for solutions to make the Jcarousel gallery and CformsII work together. If anyone have some solutions to this issue please leave your comment.

Converting WP Theme to Drupal Theme

Yesterday, I was surprised to read from Technorati that White House's website will be shifted to popular CMS Drupal which happen to be my favorite when I lost my appetite with Joomla!'s categorization.

Also yesterday, I posted my first experience in converting WP theme to Blogger layout which I worked out last month but got pissed off with the posts display problem. Today, I'm happy to post that my conversion with WP theme Masunurin to Drupal theme is another milestone to me.

For those interested in creating Drupal themes, I suggests reading this tutorial How to Make a Drupal Theme which was my source in converting the Paddsolutions' Masunurin WP theme. Also, you can visit Drupal's Theme guide for more comprehensive documentation.

Tomorrow, I will finalize packaging the said theme for Drupal community to give it a try. I will also capture screenshots and setup its demo site.

My First : Wordpress Theme to Blogger Layout

I have been studying for a month now how to create a Blogger layout but unfortunately I only spend a day then back again after a few weeks or more because of my daytime job. In short, I just did it during my leisure time.

Anyway, here's the screenshot of my amateur conversion of Wordpress theme to Blogger layout which you can visit at Bloggers Templating. During the peak of my conversion, I decided to check some of my resources for Blogger template tutorial and noticed that FalconHive already converted the theme I'm working on. Too bad for me I was late in publishing it earlier. Well, I can't do anything about it now so I decided to continue what I've started last month and post it here instead.

I also checked FalconHive's work, it was awesome, great actually. I didn't even bother to put Tweetmeme plugin in my version because this is just my exploration with Blogger. What makes my version different? Very obvious is the color, I used the magenta/pink version the Masunurin theme of Masunurin Pink of Paddsolutions. And the most is, when you add gadgets in the sidebar, it will have the same styling with the original design.

Last month, I was really having problem creating this because the posts and other contents are not displaying as expected that was also one of the reasons I ended up to nothing. But with the help of the blank template by Kendhin , it works brilliantly. Then, I was able to play around with it a little bit more.

 Here's my version's screenshot.

Here's from FalconHive version of Masunurin Theme

For those interested to download my Masunurin Blogger Theme version just leave a comment. I would also like to acknowledge FalconHive because it has been my resources for learning the Blogger theming.

How to watch TV using your Internet and PC

Have you ever thought of watching TV in front of your computer? Well, for technical person like me that's really possible. First you need a TV card tuner installed into your PC and of course a cable subscription from your local cable service provider. That's quite heavy to handle. You have to add new parts to your computer plus a cable subscription.

Since you already have an Internet connection, have you thought of watching TV online with at least 3,500 channels? No subscription? No monthly fees? No hardware install? Channels from all over the countries?

Doubting it? Well, here are some reviews for you.

REVIEWS
"I was amazed by your large collection of channels, my cable company only had a quarter of your content. Great stuff!"
- Maria C. Albany, NY
"Product was just as described. Big selection of channels and easy to use. A+++"
- Sylvia R. Seattle, WA
"I hooked my computer to my 65" flat screen and now your software works just like my previous satellite dish service, except 100 times cheaper. Thank you!"
- Jason E. Montreal, Canada
"Thanks to your software, I cancelled my costly TV Cable service. Money well spent!"
- Mark D. Manchester, UK


As for my experience, I'm watching Sample Stream: (France 24) during the writing of this post and found no delays at all. How cool is that? I'm in Philippines particularly in Cotabato City which is 3 days away from our capital city Manila by boat while an hour and half more or less away by plane but still enjoying the live streaming.

If you're really insterested you may click here.  You may also visit DishTVforPC to know more.

To do 's during the 2010 Presidential Election in Philippines

Recommended to do's in the upcoming 2010 Presidential Election

• Don't register to Commission on Election
• Don't research more about the Presidential candidates
• Turn off your tv when any news about election are on your on it
  
• Don't participate in any groups related to election
  
• Don't start a topic or discuss with your colleagues pertaining to election
• Don't mark the date of election in your calendar
• Don't bookmark sites related to election
• Don't go to polling precincts
• Finally, don't vote

 

Debug mode 'true' results in Wordpress 2.8.4

I'm not a Wordpress expert myselft but I often asks by friends to do some stuff with it. Recently, I tried debugging some error we encountered with my friends blog using Wordpress. 


Normally, in some CMS or some other web project there's an option to turn on the debug mode for us developers to know what are those error we don't easily see by walking through the lines of codes.


Now, I tried enabling Wordpress' debug mode by adding define('WP_DEBUG',true); at wp_config.php file at the root directory of Wordpress and noticed the following errors:

Notice: get_settings is deprecated since version 0.0! Use get_option() instead. in F:\AppServ\www\projs\wp\wp-includes\functions.php on line 2918.

Well, it won't actually make a huge problem with your Wordpress site using the version 2.8.4 but for compatiblity concern this must be change from its core since 2.8.5 has arrived with security issues addressed already. I believe 2.9 will be coming soon too hope this has been addressed too.

Blogger bug got fixed

It's been a week since my last post Happy Birthday To You been quite busy for a quite some time. Also happens that my PC's power supply gave up. At first I thought my processor was the one causing the malfunction particularly no display and beeps at all. I must have missed big G's crawls everyday.

What makes me decide to post today is that I found out my Blogger's latest editor is now working without those bug I screen captured at my post Blogger bug.

I just love using this editor which I can quite compare it my most favorite one which is FCKEditor which I think love by most web developer from different CMS's, PHP frameworks and other web user interface such as email.

With this updates I'll be happy posting in the next few days.

Happy Birthday to you

Around the world, there are at least 360,470 born everyday. Well, we have a lot of birthday celebrations to attend to if only we could. In every celebration I attended, we usually sing "Happy birthday to you" melody to the celebrant. Tradition.

Do you know that October 13, 1893 was date when the "Happy Birthday to you" melody was copyright registered? The melody must have been an very popular in almost around the world, I bet.

The "Happy Birthday to you" or commonly known as Happy Birthday was originally published as "Good Morning To All" in a book called "Song Stories for the Kindergarten" written by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill who are both kindergarten school teachers.

With that, I'm somehow thankful with the two sisters who made those melody possible. You may also at Wikipedia regarding some issues on its copyright.

Sources: Wikipedia and About.com

Stat source : http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/VanessaChambers.shtml

Stephen Gately passed away

Boyzone's member Stephen Gately passed away on October 10. He may not be popular around the world but for those who knows Boyzone knew him very well as one of the lead singers of the band.

According the news, Stephen Gately's cause of death is still unclear but perhaps will be reported within this week. Also reported that he went out for drinks, returned to his accommodation and sleep but never woke up.

He will be missed. He will be remembered in a Different Beat.

About Brett Gardner

Know more about Brett Gardner here.

* Born: 8/24/1983 in Holly Hill, SC
* Bats/Throws: L/L
* HT: 5'10''
* WT: 185
* Debut: 6/30/2008
* College: College of Charleston


New York Yankees games schedule

Away : Yankees
Home: Twins
Time (ET) : 5:07pm
Sabathia (19-8)

A big fan of Brett Gardner? join here.

News about Brett Gardner.

• Gardner a 'force off the bench'
• Yanks activate Gardner, recall Duncan
• Gardner starts rehab assignment Thursday
• Gardner could begin rehab stint Thursday
• Cervelli, Pena among potential callups
• Gardner on mend, aims for next week
• Gardner staying positive while sidelined

Source: http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com

Blogger bug?

Yesterday until this posting I'm still having trouble using my Blogger post editor.

For non-Blogger user, Blogger has added a new features to its services and one of them is the latest post editor with a lot of new features.

Here are my favorite features of the latest Blogger post editor.

• Image handling - When you upload an image to the new post editor it will appear as a thumbnail in the image dialog box. That way, you can upload several images at once, and then add them into your post at your convenience. The thumbnails will be available until you close the post editor.

• Post preview - Post preview is now in pop-up window.
• Add/edit/visit/remove Link - Easily add, edit or remove link from your post. Visiting your added link in just a click within your post.
  

Actually there's a lot more but in general I'm not happy using my blogger now. I'm currently using the old version of post editor (at least it gave me a chance to post). I hope this will be fix soon. Does anyone have encountered the same?

CSS : Lesson Learned today

Today, I visited one of the blogs of Google Code speed and read the post entitled CSS: Using every declaration just once. It has caught my attention because according to author Jens Meiert, Google Webmaster, declaring your properties for your selector once will reduce its file size for about 20-40%. With smaller file size of your CSS that means your server will not consume more bandwidth loading it.

How does it work? Here's sample from

Assuming we have the following selectors and properties.

h1 { color: black; }

p { color: black; }

This can be optimized like this.

h1, p {color: black; }

This is applicable to theme developers who separate their CSS typography, layout, color schemes and etc or anyone who would like to reduce their CSS file size.

Very easy isn't it? I will be applying this too.

Phillipines or Philippines?

Earlier today, I misspelled searching for the keyword Phillipines instead of Philippines and surprisingly found results about the wrong spelling of my country.

The very first entry is from Wikipedia but I took it as Google's initiative about the keyword and gave the correct result for the said keyword. While the following entries of the search results are obviously typographical errors.

Here's the following sites that contains the wrong spelling Phillipines.

• Philippines Hotspots - the URL http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/asiaphillipines.htm
• Essential travel .co.uk - Travel to Phillipines with travel insurance from Essential - http://insurance.essentialtravel.co.uk/cityguide/philippines/philippines.htm
  
• Daily motion -  Dailymotion - Maxim - Miss Phillipines - a video - http://www.dailymotion.com/family_filter?urlback=%2Fvideo%2Fx331gq_maxim-miss-phillipines
  
• World News Network (They should correct this because they built a news site for global coverage and yet they are spreading wrong spelling) - http://upge.wn.com/?template=cheetah-photo-search/index.txt&query=phillipines&language_id=-1

For majority's concern, it's spelled as Philippines. Our country was named after Philip II of Spain when Ruy López de Villalobos reached Samar and Leyte during his expedition. The original Spanish name was Las Islas Filipinas. And in the twentieth century, it was expanded to the entire archipelago. Las Islas Filipinas was later changed into Philippines during the American colonization.

You may also be interested in reading the correct address for Philippine citizen. Philipino, Phillipino or Philippino?

One Less Lonely Girl Lryics by Justin Bieber

About a month ago, there's a rumor that Justin Bieber was dead and it was really one of the hot searches over the Internet and yet it wasn't true.

Now with his latest song One Less Lonely Girl, who says Justin Bieber is dead?

Sing along with One Less Lonely Girl by playing the embedded video and lyrics below.

There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl

How many I told you's
And start overs and shoulders
Have you cried on before
How many promises be honest girl
How many tears you let hit the floor
How many bags you packed
Just to take 'em back, tell me that
How many either or's
But no more,
If you let me inside of your world
There'd be one less lonely girl

(Chorus)
Oh no
I saw so many pretty faces
Before I saw you, you
Now all I see is you
Oh no
Don't need these other pretty faces
'Cause when your mine in the world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
I'm gonna put you first
I'll show you what your worth
If you let me inside your world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl

Christmas wasn't merry, 14th of February
Not one of them spent with you
How many dinner dates, set dinner plates
And he didn't even touch his food
How many torn photographs saw you taping back
Tell me that you couldn't see an open door
But no more,
If you let me inside of your world

(Chorus)
Oh no
I saw so many pretty faces
Before I saw you, you
Now all I see is you
Oh no
Don't need these other pretty faces
'Cause when your mine in the world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
I'm gonna put you first
I'll show you what your worth
If you let me inside your world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl

I can fix up your broken heart
I can give you a brand new start
I can make you believe,
I just wanna set one girl free to fall
She's free to fall
With me
My hearts locked and nowhere to get the key
I'l take her and leave this world
With one less lonely girl

There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
Yaaaah

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Hugh Jackman interrupted by cellphone

Earlier I posted a video of Fan Nude Dancing which was really funny.

Here's another funny yet with lessons to learned from video. Video was on a play when someone else's cellphone rang and interrupted Hugh jackman.

Fan Nude Dancing | Funny

Here's a funny dance video entitled Fan nude dancing - dance of the year Drinking Boys created by DJ Ozma. Me and my office mates laughed so hard about this video. I hope you too. Women will love to watch this.

In our organization, every December we have annual meeting and each area have to present one entertainment number depending on what theme have agreed by all area offices.

I think this will do if we'll have sort of Japanese theme.

X Factor Stacey Solomon

Last September 8,2009 I posted about an X Factor contestant name Danyl Johnson
who made Simon Cowell likes his performance but not me. Now he's gone to the said reality search.

This morning I found Stacey Solomon, another weird but at least have an X Factor contestant. When she started to sing her audition song What a wonderful world, I was really amazed with her voice. At the end of her singing, all four judges gave her a big "YES".



Will we expecting from her after the audition? Hope she'll make it too.

Kimbo Slice : The fight that started it all

Watch the following video where Kimbo Slice started his street fight. Really funny but you'll be able to proved to yourself how interesting Kimbo Slice fight.

Hope he'll be able to show how good he is in his upcoming fight.

Kimbo slice vs big d
by Nico44dvb

Jacque Bermejo / Jackie Bermejo hate Philipppines?

Why in the world would our fellow Filipino post at her Facebook account such  treachery words to her kababayan?

Is she that successful in Dubai to say those words? We Filipino bloggers are much interested in campaining for help to those victims of the typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) and yet there's this woman unexpectedly uttering silly words to victims.

We all know that Manila are known to have sinners but does she realized that even in Dubai there are sinners like what she thinks of here in Philippines.

Human are known to be sinners Jacque Bermejo or Jackie Bermejo. Realized that!

You can enlarge the image at left pane for clear view of her post and some replies at Facebook.

Here's also some twits at Twitter.

Cotto Pacquiao 24/7 Sneak Peek

I found this 24/7 Cotto Pacquiao video at Youtube personally made by 2201jc. Interestingly caught my attention. The Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao fight will be year-end to all boxing enthusiasts.

I hope there will be a real 24/7 Cotto Pacquiao or 24/7 Pacquiao Cotto from HBO like the fight of Mayweather and Marquez.

Related posts:

Mayweather Marquez 24/7 Episode 1

Mayweather - Marquez 24/7 Episode 2

Mayweather Marquez 24/7 Episode 3

Mayweather Marquez 24/7 Episode 4

 

Stuart Sutcliffe | Beatles fifth member

The Beatles are popularly known to have four members namely, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star.

One of my favorite 60's band is Beatles but I don't actually know that they have what they call the fifth Beatle. Name is Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe or known as Stuart Sutcliffe, born June 23,1940 at Edinburgh, Scotland, died April 10,1962 at Hamburg, Germany. Cause of death is cerebral hemorrhage.

He left The Beatles to pursue his sense of artistry 8 months after meeting Astrid Kirchherr during their play at Hamburg.






Stuart Sutcliffe life with The Beatles:

• Founding member
• Original bass guitar player
• Played in the song Hellelujah, I love her so", You'll be mine and Cayenne
• Pictured on the front cover of Anthology 1
  
• Member for about a year

Nelly Arcan dies at 35

Novelist named Nelly Arcan died last September 24,2009. Cause of death is still under investigation. I may not have read her novel entitled Putain and some others but I really like to post about her because I really adore writers.

Nelly Arcan birth name is Isabelle Fortier and born on March 5, 1973 at Lac-Megantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Her novel sexually explicit Putain was published in 2001 and made the shortlists for the Prix Femina and Prix Medici in France. Three years later she then followed it up with another novel Folle.

Nelly was also a columnist for ICI magazine and also appeared on Canal Vox tv show. Three weeks before her death she published a story in the said magazine entitled "Take me, or You're Dead". I do hope this has nothing to do with her death. Cop's suspected suicide for the cause of her death.

May god bless Nelly Arcan's soul.

Image source: Wikipedia

Watch Pandorum trailer

Here's a must seen horror sci-fi movie coming this week. If you are into a movie like Resident Evil or movie alike. The movie started with the two space crew who woke up in spaceship who don't who they are and what are they doing in the said spaceship. On the later part, they will discover some secrets inside the spaceship and survival will be their mission in the long run.






Casts:

Dennis Quaid ... Payton

Ben Foster ... Bower

Cam Gigandet ... Gallo

Antje Traue ... Nadia

Cung Le ... Manh

Release date: 30 September 2009 - Philippines
Check other release dates here
Source: IMDB.com

Michelle Phillips stepmom of Mackenzie Phillips

Michelle Phillips stepmother of Mackenzie Phillips, denied allegations of Mackenzie due to her mental illness. According to her, Mackenzie has been arrested in drug related cases and has been to Celebrity Rehab. There was also a time when she called her (Michelle) telling about this 'incest relationship' they have had with her father and called back again and told that it was joke.

In my opinion, Mackenzie is telling the truth. In fact, Chynna Phillips half-sister of Mackenzie, back her up . Here's some interview with Chynna from LA times.

She tells Us that in 1997, 11 years after MacKenzie says the affair ended, Mackenzie called Chynna and told her about the physical relationship.

"Was he actually raping her? I don't know," says Chynna. "Do I believe that they had an incestuous relationship and that it went on for 10 years? Yes."

I think that would be enough.

Know more about Michelle and Chynna Phillips.

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Sidney Crosby's Girlfriend

Sidney Crosby a professional Canadian hockey player that some single ladies find him hot.

Born in August 7, 1987. Started playing hockey as early as 2 years old in his basement. Learned to skate at the age of 3. Sidney Crosby is now captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL).


If you are searching for photos of his girlfriend, you came to the right place. For your information he's still single and available for dating. I've searched on this topic all over the Internet and found out that he's really not into dating someone. Feel free to date him.

You also interested knowing more about Sidney.

19.2 pound baby

Last night I stumble upon the news about a 19.2 pound baby boy born in Indonesia by Ani. I can't imagine how long it took to deliver the said baby boy. You see, I also have a son who was born last year with just about 7 kilos pounds but my wife stayed at the delivery room for about 12 hours. I know there's a lot of factors that why it took that long.

With this 19 pound baby boy which is 24.4 inches long may be the biggest boy born ever. Ani must be so proud with her still unnamed baby. Every mother are often bragging about the weight of their baby after born but I think it's not worth it.

If you are wondering if this 19 pound baby boy  is the heaviest newborn in history, the answer is no. The record belongs to an American infant born in 1879. He weighed 23 pounds, 12 ounces but died a few hours after being born. Another one is the heaviest baby weighed 22 lbs., 8 ounce as reported by ABC.

May Ani and her future nanny will have enought strength to carry this 19 pound baby boy all the time.

Below is the picture of Ani and her still unnamed baby.

Watch Eastwick tonight

Eastwick tv show, a new show to be premiered tonight at ABC at 10:00 PM ET. The tv show is a novel adaptation The Witches of Eastwick authored by John Updike and was also filmed in 1987.


With the Eastwick tv show adaptation, viewers will be following the series of events that will happen to the characters Roxanne, Joanna and Kat. According to its excerpt, the three will meet at a wishing fountain and soon become friends. Mysterious man named Darryl Van Horne will moved to Eastwick be their friends. Little that they know, Darryl has sinister plans for the girls. Viewers should be are expected to be thrilled if when he will unleash their supernatural powers. But by igniting their heart's desires, he might just be opening Pandora's box.


If you love movies or tv show such as this, 


Genre : Supernatural drama



Directed by David Nutter
Starring         Lindsay Price
                        Jaime Ray Newman
                        Rebecca Romijn
                        Paul Gross
                        Matt Dallas
                       Sara Rue
                       Ashley Benson
                      Jon Bernthal
                      Veronica Cartwright
                      Johann Urb

Season 1 will start tonight at 10PM and will be viewed every Wednesday. Finale is expected until Spring of 2010.


Source: Wikipedia

Susan Adams Phillips mother of Mackenzie Phillips

Earlier today I posted about John Phillips the father of former teen star Laura Mackenzie Phillips. Mackenzie's revelation at the Oprah show spread over the Internet like wildfire.

Susan Adams is a daughter of Virginia family.

Here's some interesting stories about Mackenzie Phillips I found at Wikipedia.

• Born November 10, 1959
• Daughter of Susan Adams Phillips
  
• In 1973, auditioned for the hit movie American Graffiti at the age of 12 and released when she was already 14 years of age.
• Gained stardom in 70's in the long running tv show One Day at a Time and earning $50,000 a week
• Arrested in 1977 for public drunkenness and possession of cocaine
• Fired at One day a Time in 1980
• Married three times to  Jeff Sessler (1979-1981), Michael Barakan now known asShane Fontayne (1996-2000) and Keith Levenson (2005-present)
• August 27, 2008 - arrested for drug possesion
• September 2009 release her book High on Arrival  wherein she revealed her family secrets
  

Source: Mackenzie @ Wikipedia

John Phillips | Papa John

Who is John Phillips?

John Phillips also known as Papa John, a musician member of the group called The Mamas and the Papas.

According the entry from Wikipedia, John Phillips longed for success in music industry and I supposed didn't make it.

As for his personal background, he had married four women namely Susan Adams, Michelle Gilliam, Geneviève Waïte and finally Michelle Phillips.

In 1973, despite by the encouragement given by Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones to record for a new album, he failed Jagger because of his drug addiction.

What really alarming with his life is the revelation of his daughter MacKenzie Phillips that she slept with him. He even introduces cocaine to Mackenzie. Mackenzie also reveals to Oprah that there was the time that she woke up having s*x with his father John.

His story is not really new to us. Hollywood artists or even local ones tend to get married not just once but as many as they can have. Also, drug addiction is often associated with having a lot of problems this is what I see from John Phillips. You see, in life not everything that you thought a solution is really a solution.


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