old stuff from June, 2008

wrapping text around an image in y! groups

Friday, 27 June 2008 6:38 pm by noel
posted in places, tech

i have been using yahoo! groups to send out newsletters. in the pursuit of making these newsletters look a little more attractive i wanted to have some small images with the text wrapping around them. easier said than done. yahoo! groups only allows a small, specific subset of css and html to be used in [...]

yahoo booboo 2008.06.25

Wednesday, 25 June 2008 8:50 pm by noel
posted in mine, tech

yahoo mail suddenly acted up — web access to both the free yahoo mail and the bizmail part is not working. i don’t know if its a maintenance thing and if it is then yahoo should really inform their user base. as of this writing, there’s no mention of the downtime in the yahoo mail [...]

underwater

Sunday, 22 June 2008 9:59 pm by noel
posted in mine, places

typhoon “frank” (international name: fengshen) left our neighborhood under 12 inches of water for most of the day. i woke up at 4:00 in the morning to strong winds but no rain. there were already a handful of broken off branches along the street.
the cars in the photo are actually parked on the sidewalk already. [...]

firefox 3 out

Tuesday, 10 June 2008 9:38 pm by noel
posted in tech

at least with the linux version, it is. as of this writing the version for windows is not yet available but i would assume it will be soon… mozilla.com is even asking for help in setting the guiness book of records for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
as for the software itself, the good [...]

not idle

Sunday, 1 June 2008 9:32 pm by noel
posted in cycling, mine

i have been preoccupied with my recovery lately. that’s the main reason why i haven’t been posting or writing anyone for the past few days. i have been walking, exercising my arms and legs, stretching and doing more walking — just about everything to get some improvement however small it may be. i got myself [...]