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naruhodo japan

it all started 3 months ago. my friend who's learning japanese mentioned using podcasts to learn japanese so i decided to check out this whole podcast thing. what i found were several podcasts that really didn't teach much japanese or... [more]

Posted on August 8, 2008 @ 12:27 PM | Comments (1)

cool laptop

over the weekend i bought something for my laptop that has been on my list of things to get ever since i bought my laptop 4 years ago. it's the belkin laptop cooling pad and boy does it do wonders.... [more]

Posted on July 8, 2008 @ 9:21 PM | Comments (2)

coming to you live from my phone

today i got a new phone...yeah i'm the latest victim to jump on the blackberry bandwagon. i'm even writing this entry from my phone. i'm not the kind that has to have the latest gadgets or access to email constantly,... [more]

Posted on June 15, 2008 @ 9:50 PM | Comments (0)

lady talks like a dude

i decided to take this online gender test that analyzes text and determines if the author is female or male. i came upon it through my random web surfing and found a blog entry where the author of kamigoroshi.net declares... [more]

Posted on March 17, 2008 @ 10:18 PM | Comments (0)

californians on an adventure

today we went to california adventure with my brother since he's never been there. i decided i would test out my camera, mostly taking b&w photos and using the filters i just bought. what's great about digital cameras is the... [more]

Posted on March 16, 2008 @ 10:44 PM | Comments (0)

no help pages in movable type

whenever i'm doing stuff behind the scenes on the blog, using the movable type administrative interface, there are context sensitive links to help pages in the manual. however, ever since i upgraded however many months or years ago that was,... [more]

Posted on February 8, 2008 @ 4:05 PM | Comments (0)

nicknames

i have decided to through my archives and change some people's name to nicknames. this is something i didn't think about when i first started the blog but an issue that i have thought about since then. at first i... [more]

Posted on January 14, 2008 @ 10:33 PM | Comments (0)

say goodbye to the dailies

my new year resolution for the blog is to not have entries for each day. it's a strange style that perhaps only i engage in for a personal blog. it generates a lot of crap. there is this pressure to... [more]

Posted on December 31, 2007 @ 4:21 PM | Comments (0)

firefox

i tend to use firefox at work because it works. but i could not figure out how to change the default printer. everything else is printing to the printer at my desk but just firefox is printing to a printer... [more]

Posted on December 20, 2007 @ 7:54 PM | Comments (0)

computing news

i can use a computer now at work. i was given the login info for the computer at my desk. it was minor torture because it was just sitting there and i couldn't use, especially because i needed to do... [more]

Posted on December 12, 2007 @ 10:22 PM | Comments (0)

tourist remover software

don't you hate it when you're trying to get a shot of something but people keep stepping in frame and you want to photograph the building/thing/place without any people? well nothing that a little photoshop can't help but for those... [more]

Posted on December 8, 2007 @ 2:18 PM | Comments (0)

microsoft japanese ime

since i'm working at a company that requires japanese, they have windows machines with japanese ime and it's given me opportunity to explore this software. i was content with the japanese capabilities on the mac. that i could view and... [more]

Posted on November 30, 2007 @ 7:29 PM | Comments (0)

photo frustrations

ok here's the thing, i am so damn frustrated with my computer setup. i envisioned the old tower i got to be my media center, full of music and photos. only, it's too old to really be that. it's slow... [more]

Posted on November 12, 2007 @ 10:31 PM | Comments (0)

online backups

a long time ago, perhaps shortly after my laptop drive failure disaster of february 2006, i was looking into various ways to backup my hard drive like i should have been all along. i came across a great blog entry... [more]

Posted on September 21, 2007 @ 10:44 AM | Comments (1)

fuck you spam!

i am completely at a loss with the spam plugins that come with movable type. i read the instructions, i thought i understood. i made the settings a bit tougher because spam comments were coming through and not being marked... [more]

Posted on September 14, 2007 @ 9:40 PM | Comments (0)

smells like blog spirit

the blog herald is a site all about blogging. the posts that mostly attract my attention are ones designed to make you think about your blog and if it's living up to its potential, designed well, if the entries are... [more]

Posted on August 28, 2007 @ 7:15 PM | Comments (0)

windoze only

i'm getting a little frustrated lately with windoze only sites and video files. i can't recall eaxtly which ones for sure but there are various site lately i can't use (such as for paying my utility bills) because they are... [more]

Posted on August 27, 2007 @ 9:15 PM | Comments (0)

float this!

twiddle thumbs has brought back home with her a pc laptop from work several times but today was the first time i tried using it. i wanted to see if it had the same web display issues that some people... [more]

Posted on August 15, 2007 @ 11:43 PM | Comments (0)

we've got the internets!

oh! my! god! we! got! internet! today! "finally!" that's what most who know us will say. we don't want to pay for a phone line so we are not getting dsl. instead, we have internet through a cable tv provider.... [more]

Posted on August 4, 2007 @ 11:59 PM | Comments (1)

screen captures

i've been doing a lot of screen captures lately of music videos for a fan site i do. doing so many, i wanted an automated process. i've tried before using programs where it grabs a screen from every 100 frames... [more]

Posted on July 20, 2007 @ 11:50 PM | Comments (0)

my new site endeavor

the vegan blog site domain name has been registered. that means i need to seriously get off my butt and finalize designs. i haven't experimented with the design for awhile so it's time to get back at it. and of... [more]

Posted on July 17, 2007 @ 8:59 PM | Comments (0)

vegan recipe blog part 2

eureka! i figured out a work around to do what i want in wordpress. woo hoo! in the words of david cope, it's all about "massaging the data". or in this case, massaging the templates i'm using in wordpress to... [more]

Posted on June 29, 2007 @ 11:09 PM | Comments (0)

vegan recipe blog

no more procrastinating on the vegan recipe blog i want to do! months ago i installed wordpress to muck around with it, thinking i would use it for the vegan recipe blog. i already use wordpress on another site i... [more]

Posted on June 28, 2007 @ 10:34 PM | Comments (1)

site issue solved

an issue i had with buck-tick zone has been solved. some people said that when they try to view the site, they can't. i had to get specific with them of course to help troubleshoot what the issue was. some... [more]

Posted on June 8, 2007 @ 7:28 PM | Comments (0)

anti spam measures for bbs

today was all about adding a plugin for a phpbb bbs i have installed for one of my sites. it's to help cut down on spammers. i thought everything was right when i followed the instructions but when i test... [more]

Posted on May 3, 2007 @ 11:03 PM | Comments (0)

yafuu

that would be yahoo in japanese. yahoo japan auctions are a very dangerous place for me to browse. i have come across so many buck-tick items i covet. i caved in last week or so and created a yahoo japan... [more]

Posted on April 22, 2007 @ 4:20 PM | Comments (0)

international spam

due to the increasing volume of spam, i have long contemplated changing my email address. i have some email addresses i use for mailing lists only to help cut down but i still throw my main address around too casually... [more]

Posted on March 22, 2007 @ 1:12 PM | Comments (1)

liquid layouts

i've spent the past couple days redoing the layouts of this blog and another site for more fluidity. it's something that i wanted to do before but i wasn't sure exactly what i wanted to achieve in terms of layout... [more]

Posted on March 21, 2007 @ 11:09 PM | Comments (0)

apple. frys.

so as to not make the same mistake, this time i called the apple stores to find out if they have my power adaptor in stock. one of them said they had plenty. great! i went there after work. they... [more]

Posted on February 28, 2007 @ 10:10 PM | Comments (0)

too busy or too lazy? that is the question

lately i feel so busy in my zeal to finish off the buck-tick page i'm redoing that i'm neglecting everything else. i keep saying this but it's so true. i've all these other ideas in my head and even some... [more]

Posted on February 23, 2007 @ 3:44 PM | Comments (0)

hello visitors

i use gvisit to keep track of the visitors to the blog and have a nice map of it. to just click on that link is so much easier and nicer looking than logging in to my 'control panel' to... [more]

Posted on February 22, 2007 @ 1:52 PM | Comments (0)

buck-tick muchu

i've been so caught up working on the new version of buck-tick zone that i've really neglected everything else. sorry.... [more]

Posted on February 14, 2007 @ 10:03 PM | Comments (0)

why do people buy pcs?

...when they know they don't like them? we went to twiddle thumbs's brother's house where he and his wife were having pc issues. pcs are crap. we spent 2.5 hours downloading updates and running spyware removers, etc. we didn't solve... [more]

Posted on February 2, 2007 @ 11:38 PM | Comments (0)

what's your speed?

i took a typing test tonight. a proper one. this is something probably not on most people's agenda! i just wanted to know how fast i can type. i always thought i could type fast. i mean, sometimes at jobs... [more]

Posted on January 18, 2007 @ 9:26 PM | Comments (0)

a week of coding

i spent most of the week coding my little heart out. i've been working on redesigning buck-tick zone, my buck-tick fan site. i haven't worked on it in a long time so it's much neglected. i'm giving it a new... [more]

Posted on January 8, 2007 @ 11:27 PM | Comments (0)

do you know pop culture?

i use listsofbests.com quite often and it has been bugging me as to who are the people displayed in the banners at the top of each page. the image is random and there is nothing noting who they are anywhere... [more]

Posted on January 7, 2007 @ 10:45 PM | Comments (0)

lala starter kit

my lala starter kit has arrived with the clamshell cases and envelopes. now i see why it's difficult to send artwork. not only is there the weight limitation issue for pre-paid envelopes but the space to insert the cd is... [more]

Posted on December 13, 2006 @ 11:31 PM | Comments (0)

lala

i signed up with lala.com today. i don't know anyone who uses it but i read about it and decided to test it out. it's a way to trade cds with people just like you instead of selling them. there... [more]

Posted on December 8, 2006 @ 10:58 PM | Comments (0)

the jig is up

this morning i fired up the laptop and found out that there is no more free internet at the new place. you see, one of the neighbors has wireless internet and didn't have any password on it. i was able... [more]

Posted on November 19, 2006 @ 7:57 PM | Comments (0)

what the hell happened to my inbox?!

i've started moving my files to the new host. i setup everything that i would need like email accounts and a mysql database for skullblog. i decided i want to check my email via imap instead of pop3. this way,... [more]

Posted on October 25, 2006 @ 11:46 PM | Comments (3)

i can't stand it anymore

the calavera host is really bad now. so freakin' slow that i can't stand it anymore! i've been doing research on hosts but cannot make up my mind. i want the peace of mind that a big host can provide... [more]

Posted on October 24, 2006 @ 10:22 PM | Comments (0)

forget the boob tube, watch you tube

people love youtube.com, i know, i use it too. but i don't love it. at least, i didn't have a reason to love it. i thought it's great that you can look around for video clips and have a place... [more]

Posted on September 7, 2006 @ 11:59 PM | Comments (1)

time to virtually move again

it's time to virtually move again, change hosts i mean. 2 weeks ago today i wrote to my host about the issues i have been experiencing and have received no reply. i have a couple hosts in mind but i... [more]

Posted on August 31, 2006 @ 5:12 PM | Comments (0)

talk nerdy to me

i've been tweaking the blog since saturday. the first thing i did was modify some images so that the colors appear more even in the most popular platforms/browsers. for some odd reason i can't figure out though, one main image... [more]

Posted on August 15, 2006 @ 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

weekly activities

the only thing worth noting about today was that i made a weekly sheet to note activities i have done. previously i had tried allocating time for activities but i just can't stick to a schedule. 30 minutes of this... [more]

Posted on August 2, 2006 @ 11:01 PM | Comments (0)

world cup and computers

twiddle thumbs and i did some geeking while watching the soccer world cup at her parents' house. we were finishing up on helping her little sister fix her pc and get used to the mac. i was also playing around... [more]

Posted on July 9, 2006 @ 11:43 PM | Comments (0)

my pictures have been e-published...

...or so (junk) e-mail tells me. today i got another schmap notice. it's a pc only city guide so i'm not sure if my photos are even being used or to what degree. i think they're just using pictures from... [more]

Posted on July 2, 2006 @ 6:35 PM | Comments (0)

mac to good home

tonight went to give one of the rescued macs to a good home (we hope!). we gave it to twiddle thumbs's little sister who currently has a pc in a coma. the display of her laptop is completely ruined. it's... [more]

Posted on June 27, 2006 @ 11:39 PM | Comments (0)

to blog or not to blog

decisions on what to blog can be a daily chore for me because i decided skullblog would be a daily blog and that requires many entries. as i go through the day, i think if there's anything interesting that happened... [more]

Posted on June 20, 2006 @ 9:35 PM | Comments (0)

hi, my name is kalavinka and i'm a computer addict

heliosphan sent me this link: internet addiction test. i think she's trying to tell me that i have a problem. hahahaaaa my score: 49. "You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at... [more]

Posted on May 11, 2006 @ 11:02 AM | Comments (3)

i'm just here 'cos my friends are here

lately i've been using myspace consistently because it's the best way to communicate with some of my friends. it's like checking email. every day or every other day, i gotta check myspace to see if certain friends have written to... [more]

Posted on April 22, 2006 @ 4:24 PM | Comments (0)

biblical legos and net circulated photos

i have hit upon a couple of interesting sites in recent web surfing. the first one is thebricktestament.com, which is a collection of biblical stories as illustrated by scenes created with legos. priceless. if sunday school was taught this way,... [more]

Posted on March 29, 2006 @ 9:30 PM | Comments (0)