old stuff from July, 2008

100 days nicotine-free

Sunday, 27 July 2008 10:41 pm by noel
posted in cycling, mine

its been a hundred nicotine-free days. i still consider myself lucky because i did not have the physical, mental and emotional withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting smoking. at least not the major ones — intestinal disorders, headaches, mental confusion, irritability, axiety and depression. it has been said that the first two weeks of quitting is [...]

restoring a wordpress database

Saturday, 26 July 2008 11:39 pm by noel
posted in tech

every wordpress blogger, me included, assumes that everything in his/her blog will go right or at least the blogger hopes and prays that things will go right. most times, it does. but occasionally, the sun burps a weird flare at the exact time a cosmic solar flare concentrator is pointed at your server and your [...]

wordcamp pinas

Tuesday, 22 July 2008 8:47 pm by noel
posted in tech, wordpress

its bound to happen sometime. wordcamp philippines is going to be on the 6th of september 2008, college of st. benilde in taft. 9:00 am to 6:00pm of nothing but wordpress stuff. hmmm… i wonder if ma.tt will be there. i doubt it but it would be definitely cool if he arrives.
i’d likely be there [...]

wp 2.6 upgrade weirdness

Wednesday, 16 July 2008 8:16 am by noel
posted in tech, wordpress

i have not encountered any major glitches in upgrading four blogs to wordpress 2.6 but there is this tiny thing that annoyed me a little. after upgrading wasn’t able to log in to the dashboard. it just keeps saying “please log in again.” even though i’ve tried logging in several times already.
the solution i found [...]

wordpress upgrade time. again.

Tuesday, 15 July 2008 8:34 pm by noel
posted in tech, wordpress

wordpress 2.6 has been released and its upgrade time again. this gets to be tedious if you have more two wordpress blogs to upgrade like me. still, judging from the list of improvements its a version i’ll eventually move to. i like the full support of ssl in the core and the ability to turn [...]

mt pro opening

Tuesday, 15 July 2008 6:00 pm by noel
posted in cycling, people

okay. i got a little lazy. bite me.
last 5th of july i got to attend the opening of mt pro bikes — a bikeshop located in pasong tamo, makati with lito benitez (rudy project) and vic espiritu (philippine cycling team). the place is a warehouse converted into an bike shop and its huge! [...]

not on a sunday

Monday, 7 July 2008 6:06 am by noel
posted in mine

i don’t work on sundays.
well, i used to when i was sane and single. but these days, i have a 10-year old boy and a gurlfriend and sundays and holidays is set aside for them, mostly.
it is pretty rare that you’d find me working on a sunday unless one of the servers or websites i [...]

diablo 2 on linux

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 7:30 pm by noel
posted in mine, tech

i thought the installation disks of diablo ii were in san pablo but i found them here (so sorry bro, my bad) and since wine 1.1.0 has just been released (27 june 2008), i thought i’d give it a spin and install a windows game on linux. the latest available version of wine in the [...]