February 28th, 2008 Today, instead of just dealing with people and papers, I actually worked on something a bit more interesting. I needed to allow users to change the passwords of their Active Directory accounts using a web page. Being a Java zealot, the solution I chose was JNDI which made things pretty much straightforward.
Of course it wouldn’t [...]
February 27th, 2008 L’été arrive! Il est temps pour les vacances. Allez au Boracay! Il est une petite île avec beaucoup des possibilites. Le soleil brille toujours. Le ciel est bleu. Il y’a plages blanc tres magnifique. Il y’a beaucoup des belle femmes (et beau hommes aussi). Il y’a beaucoup activities d’eau: plongée sous-marine, ski du nautique, surf, [...]
February 25th, 2008 Just watched the pilot of Knight Rider. KITT is back but instead of Knight Industries Two Thousand it is now Knight Industries Three Thousand. I wonder if they will call the next model KIFT or Knight Industries Four Thousand. There are of course less subtle changes. Instead of a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, the new [...]
February 24th, 2008 Drove my dad (actually Jem drove since my car got trapped by neighbors’ cars but I was co-driver so there :P) to the airport early this morning.
A Menudo song came up on the radio. They we’re the original boy band though not exactly Boyz II Men.
Saw a billboard of Centrum with Piolo Pascual saying “I [...]
February 20th, 2008 I just added the WordPress OpenID Plugin. I’m now OpenID-enabled! What does this mean? It means that aside from registering and logging in to this site, you can also use your OpenID to log in. Where do you get your OpenID? You probably have one already. If you have a Yahoo! account, you just need [...]
February 19th, 2008 It’s over. Finally, the long running DVD format war has effectively come to an end. Toshiba declared yesterday that it no longer will develop, make, or market HD-DVD players and recorders. Because Toshiba is the biggest proponent of HD-DVD, their action essentially concedes defeat to Sony’s competing Blu-Ray format. The beginning of the end [...]
February 17th, 2008 When I first saw the trailer of A Very Long Engagement so long ago, I thought I have a pretty good idea what the story is about. I finally got to watch it last night and I found out that it wasn’t exactly as I expected. Set in France just after World War I, [...]
February 16th, 2008 Trend Micro is suing Barracuda because the latter supposedly infringes on a patent the former owns regarding the implementation of a anti-virus through an SMTP and FTP gateway. Apparently, Trend Micro is threatened by the less expensive solution of Barracuda which involves off-the-shelf hardware components and the open source Clam Anti-Virus. And so, instead of [...]
February 15th, 2008 A day or two ago, I stayed at home. I have my notebook, a bunch of DVDs, a good speed Internet connection, pizza, and unlimited beer. Okay, not the beer, I’ve sworn off it. But what else do you need, right? The answer came as soon as I tried sending my first email. Connection failed. [...]
February 13th, 2008 I don’t know what it is about today :P but I found myself thinking back. Yes, for most of us life is good even with its ups and downs but sometimes it does get monotonic. And so once in a while we would go out and do something adventurous. Something, anything to stop that [...]