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WordPress 2.1 Incompatibilities on Stellify and Qwerky

January 27, 2007 · 6 comments

WordPress 2.1 Incompatible!

Like tiptoeing down an old flight of stairs. This is how I treat Stellify‘s WordPress backend. Sometimes the creaks are soft; sometimes they are loud. Sometimes I find my leg caught through a hole in the wooden steps, but for situations such as upgrades, I’d rather be cautious.

I’ve upgraded most of the WordPress installations on this domain to the latest version, codename “Ella”, before which the latest 2.0.x releases had whizzed by too quickly, but I stopped short of upgrading this site (and Qwerky). Why?

Plugin Problems

For starters, here are the plugins on these two sites that could possibly be incompatible with WordPress 2.1:

“Iffy”

Category Visibility
Custom Posts Per Page
Ultimate Tag Warrior

The Multi-Touch Screen by Perceptive Pixel: Jeff Han Takes User Experience to the Next Level

January 21, 2007 · 5 comments

Jefferson Han‘s multi-touch screen system requires not too many words to describe it, only a few videos (represented here in thumbnails, though):

Multi-Touch Sensing through FTIR

The main idea behind the technology: the prototype is able to handle multiple touch inputs at the same time, even varying degrees of pressure, based on the FTIR concept used in fingerprint scanners. [mirror] (paper at ACM UIST 2005: Low-Cost Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection)

Join the DCS Blog Network! (Tara Na, CS Tayo!)

January 20, 2007 · 1 comment

The DCS Blog Network has officially launched! Here’s a snippet of the hear ye! hear ye! we distributed last night:

Calling all members of the UP Diliman Department of Computer Science community: students, alumni, and faculty alike! You are cordially invited to join the DCS Blog Network, a site that brings together all blogs from its DCS members. The purpose of the DCS Blog Network is to bring together everyone who is, has, and will be part of the Department, and what better way to do that than through the Internet?

You can read the full details at Sir Feria’s blog. He suggested we (Phillip, Sir Rom, and I) set this up in preparation for the Alumni Homecoming.

The Z-List Meme

January 18, 2007 · 8 comments

Z-List Blogger

Rather than passing around surveys and quizzes, electronic chain letters and wishmakers that are all self-centered and petty, I found a great meme that will benefit those who deserve it. And it’s up to you to decide who gets the hat tip(s). The Viral Garden calls it the Revenge of the Z-Lister.

It’s some sort of a whine against how the A-listers (are you one?) are getting all the link love. Time to turn the tables on them. This is The Long Tail at work here, people! Rather than have a select few pick what they think is good, how about we do the picking? It was our year, after all; now, more than ever, do we have the greatest freedom to decide.

Friends + Fireworks

January 14, 2007 · 5 comments

Friends + Fireworks

This is my attempt at a personal entry for reasons you shall soon find out. Alas, I failed.

Aimee, one of four high school friends I finally met after four long years at the SM Mall of Asia last Friday, asked me why I didn’t like to use LiveJournal and why I didn’t write about personal things there, or anywhere else.

The first question is easy. Here’s a partial answer. The second, on the other hand, led me to this writing this. It practically implied that whether or not she had visited Stellify (I plastered announcements all over the place that I was not there but here), this whole website wasn’t enough! It also made it clear to me that many people don’t understand non-diary style blogging, and that an LJ account was not just another blogging service but obviously a journal service.

Another Reason Apple iPhone Will Suck—For Filipinos

January 12, 2007 · 21 comments

Apple fans the world over are probably having parties to celebrate the announcement of the Apple iPhone (not the Cisco one). The status messages of my buddies on Yahoo! Messenger are babbling about doing anything they can to get their paws on one (even if it takes a lap dance, one of them said!).

But I’ve already read several shortcomings of the iPhone as well as counterarguments to those. And I’ve noticed another reason why, specifically for Filipinos.

It’s very simple, really.

Selling Out and Dumb Wi-Fi: Build Social Networks to Revolt, But Is That Enough?

January 10, 2007 · 7 comments

Interesting anecdote about a social network built as leverage against an almighty company before the term “social network” was even coined. Short story is that the company crashed, the stocks were no good, and the shareholders were outraged. So Ronald Lewis and his friends turned to the Internet and built XOShareholders.com, bringing together over 23 million worth of shares from 2,700 shareholders. More importantly, the news of this injustice spread even to the media. This was in 2001, way before the Web 2.0 and one of its favorite buzzwords, social networking, were born.

Change gears—to the Philippines. One must ask, has anybody done something like that in this country?

The UP Department of Computer Science Holds Its First Alumni Homecoming

January 8, 2007 · 2 comments

The CS Firefox Coat of Arms

Twenty-six years since its creation, the UP Diliman Department of Computer Science (DCS) is finally holding an alumni homecoming on the 24th of February 2007 at its new home, the College of Engineering Library and Computer Science Building. (FYI, that building is right in front of National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) and the College of Science Library and Administration building.) Registration starts at 3, while the program will begin at 4pm.

You can read the invitation letter from Prof. Evangel Quiwa that’s been passed around to the alumni in Sir Rom’s blog. Actually, there are two more versions of the invitation letter: one reiterated by the Department Chair, Dr. Cedric Festin, and another detailing of a very special surprise for the Department’s most-loved teacher—guess who! (I’ve already mentioned him here!)

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