mark castillo
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learn about A DAY WITH(OUT) WEBLOGS project <http://www.bradlands.com/dww/about.html> . visit other participants of the project : < http://www.bradlands.com/dww/ >
every now and then, i get these 2 error msgs on netscape 4.7:
- bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded.
- warning: cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
when i get time, gonna look into this problem
entertainment news :
DAVID SPADE ATTACKED: David Spade was assaulted in his home by his personal
assistant during an apparent robbery attempt on Wednesday, The Associated
Press reports. David Malloy attacked the 36-year-old Just Shoot Me star with
a stun gun, but fled the scene by the time police arrived. He was later
arrested on suspicion of burglary, assault with a deadly weapon and assault
with a stun gun. Bail was set at $50,000. Spade suffered only minor injuries
and was treated at the scene.
Security basics, Part 1 Unix 101, Mo Budlong begins a three-part series on Unix security. In this installment, he explains how to set basic file and directory permissions.
It's a sad day, my mouse is wearing down. "Micro" is now showing instead of "Microsoft". They should have inscribed it onto the mouse itself.
jen, what are you doing with your mouse?
FiringSquad There isn't a simple way to
describe Warcraft 3, so we'll simply refer to as the "ultimate
Blizzard Real Time Strategy game." Blizzard has incorporated the best parts of all of its previous games into Warcraft 3.
Nintendo keeps handheld gaming under its thumb. the gb advance looks like it will dominate the market as well. i wonder if they could include pda features, hmmm...
Pocket PC devices making headway against Palm. and it's already starting, palm is headed down the same road as netscape.
read after lunch :
thanks vic!
wmx is a window manager for X. It's based on wm2, and it retains a similar look and feel, but it's intended to provide an experimental vehicle for features that fall comfortably outside the scope of the manifesto for the original wm2.
installed
W3M, it is a pager/text-based WWW browser which is similar to lynx but it can render tables, frames, and it's small.
Students Get out Vote ... Fraud? No matter what rules you have in place, college students are in a unique position to vote twice if they wanted to because they have two valid IDs," said Kevin Kennedy, the executive director of the State Elections Board, referring to a student's home address and college address. "And who knows how many illegal sets of IDs they have so they can drink beer?"
my little sis finally got her blog working. 8)
tabloid news : Chelsea Clinton linked with movie star Affleck. i thought it was somewhat funny.
BSD Central, the /root for BSD resources
Forbes.com Five Crappiest Tech Jobs
Openroot is a project where people can log into a box on my network and use root freely. People can (a) learn how to administer a UNIX system, (b) experiment, or (c) do whatever they see fit, create an irc server, web server, it's out of my hands. As long as you don't do anything destructive. i have my own box to play on but if you need one...
fogbugz, web - based viral bug tracking system. $199 for small development teams (up to 5 users) and $1995 for a site license.
The PeopleSoftTouch PeopleSoft software has forced a Delaware manufacturer to cut paychecks to Mickey Mouse and let failing Wisconsin college students evade expulsion. Guess what software the San Francisco school district owns? from the article, it seemed like the bulk of the problem was caused by a third party consulting party. peoplesoft in the title was used just to attract more readers.
email forward : ...I see a conspiracy. Rob Lowe sleeps with an underage girl in Atlanta at the 1988 Democractic convention. He gets off scotfree. Now he resides in the Westwing which is the most blantant Democrat propaganda show ever and he has a brother named Chad. Coincidence? I think not.
watching the warriors - lakers game. the lakers are giving a clinic beating the warriors 70-43 at the half. shooting 80% in 2nd quarter, impressive.
for us residents : happy thanksgiving!
the
beta Google Toolbar is out for only ie5 windows machines. besides the search, the only cool feature is the pagerank display of the current webpage.
at work, i am now using
freebsd 3.3-release as my primary workstation and only using the w2k box for testing. trying to stop using windows as a crutch.
Mike Muuss, author of ping(1),
dead at 42.
Yahoo shares drop to two-year low. is it a buy or the start of a downward trend?
FirstLinux provides a good number of resources for linux newbies.
Juno attempts to limit heavy Net use by making it harder for heavy online users to maintain a consistent Net connection, especially during business hours. with so many
free isps, i would expect many to move to the next one. providing poor service isn't the best business pratice.
the
blogger search is still offline.
We're sorry, search is down for maintenance at the moment. It should be up and running again soon. i wonder if they just forgot to update the page after the upgrade.
came across : Xanboo Internet Home Management System, it will enable individuals to remotely observe, control their homes, businesses.
at work : yesterday, the router's hardware failed causing the loss of internet connectivity for a couple of hours. early this morning, our primary mail server died. this afternoon, pg&e decided to shutdown the power in our grid. hope everything stays up this thanksgiving break.
since the building had no electricity ( 3 hr + outage ), i got to go home early and spend some extra time with my baby boy. 8)
the primary mail server at work is down. err
according to
TheSpark.com IQ Test, i have an iq of 89 ( Partially retarded, Worldwide Average: 102 ). i took this test some time ago and just checked my spam account today.
played
Fear Effect ( which i got used for 13 bucks, what a steal ) and so far it looks like a good game. the story and graphics are great but the camera angles and the load times are giving me problems. also playing the
starcraft demo but only on the commute to work.
Robots I've Built. looks like a good inexpensive hobby, should
start here. found it thru his
weblog.
right now : i'm reading some
favorite blogs, waiting for laundry while
striking distance is playing on showtime in the background. in other words, i'm just killing some time
my link log :
linkwatcher is a system designed to publicize and monitor weblogs. It visits all the blogs it knows about once every hour, updates the search engine, and determines whether each blog has changed.
metalog is a
personal weblog, combining entries from a
journal, a
self-improvement site, a
programming site, and other stuff I just wanted to remember.
blogger has More server problems.
entertainment :
robin williams was hilarous on
Whose Line Is It Anyway. maybe they could try to get jim carrey?
lakers beat the kings. didn't see the game but saw kobe on the highlights.
on the tonight show, ben affleck's impressions of gore and clinton were funny until his impression of leno
testing.. blogger is acting funny.
changed the colors. not sure about the yellow for the links. i didn't want the links underlined but then you couldn't tell if they were links. so i made the links yellow
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery opened up shop in the building i work. a welcome addition to the scarce affordable eating establishments in the soma area
You've Got Blog. pretty cool read, if you follow
meg,
jason or
blogger.
The iRobot-LE [ via
geekpress ] great christmas present. hint hint.
Cubism, Web-Browser Style The browser works with ordinary Web pages and is an alternative to having half-a-dozen browser windows open at once. Instead, the 2Ce browser allows six pages to be worked on simultaneously -- in the same window. seems like a great idea especially caching the linked pages in the background
Netscape 6. it seems a bit faster but opening pages in new windows is still slow.
some cool 'by filipino'
websites
i was able to get some play time on
Kessen. this game is the exact reason why i rent games before i buy them. that sounded really bad but kessen (imho) isn't a keeper. the graphics were ok but i thought they could have been better. as for the gameplay, either i was extremely good or the game was really easy. i was mowing thru enemy forces like they weren't there. i liked dynasty warriors 2 better, even though i wouldn't buy that title either
Philippine President Estrada Impeached The House speaker on Monday proclaimed President Joseph Estrada impeached on charges that he received millions of dollars in illegal payoffs. With a bang of his gavel, Speaker Manuel Villar declared that the articles of impeachment would be sent to the Senate for a trial to determine whether Estrada should be removed from office.
NBA ON TNT "LA Lakers @ Sacramento Kings", THURSDAY - 11/16
8:00 p.m. et / 5:00 p.m. pt. i think i can catch the second half
there's a pretty cool Mosquito Killer game in flash 5 on
PeteDotCom
a rented copy of
Kessen is sitting unplayed on the counter. i might not get a chance to play it this week
just saw
Keeping the Faith. great romantic comedy. stiller, norton and elfman were wonderful.
right now watching :: David Spade: Take the Hit on hbo and spade is killing me. he is so funny.
got on
Power Bloggers.
34. mark castillo dot org :: 9 :: 1. must be a mistake
the link to the superstats
public stats doesn't seem to work. Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function getpubreportslist() in /usr/local/lib/phplib-6.1/php/auto_init.inc on line 42. i guess i should do something about that.
Winona Ryder's hush-hush relationship with rocker Beck has reportedly come to an end. According to US Weekly, the couple - who never publicly admitted they were an item - decided they made better friends. interesting
somebody tell me when it's over ( the election fiasco ). i'm quite tired
cool stop more random cool sites, hehehe. [ via
slim.girl ]
jen, what is a Moderate Populist? i wish speakout.com (or some webiste) had a faq of all the parties, their stand on the issues, links, blab blah blah blah. you know what i mean
Dictionary.com/Centrist
Centrist adj : supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative [syn: middle-of-the-road] n : a person who takes a position in the political center [syn: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist]
according to
SpeakOut.com - VoteMatch Presidential Candidate Selector, i am a Centrist. my scores: Personal Score 58% Economic Score 54% (still not sure what it means)
tim russert looked like such a herb with that white board last night.
the father to be. great site. before my baby boy was born, i was thinking about starting a similar blog. my wife had some objections to it which i can't seem to recall. anyways, it seems like a great site.
here's another thing i found interesting: instead of having Blogger write the HTML code for me, I have it spit out the journal entries in raw XML format. From there I use the handy, but a little tricky, XML::Parser Perl module to generate some browser-readable, and W3C-validated, XHTML code. nice.
coolhomepages.com got slightly annoying. just to view a couple of links, you have to register. errgh
on
mark.weblogs.com, i fixed the exclude and favorites. i also added the search the weblogs feature.
***STALL*** ON THE LOWER DECK OF THE BAY BRIDGE A BIG RIG BLOCKS THE 2 LEFT LANES AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ANCHORAGE...TRAFFIC IS BACKED UP SOLIDLY THRU SAN FRANCISCO AND ALL APPROACHES TO THE LOWER DECK ARE JAMMED FOR BLOCKS IN THE CITY.
my commute home doesn't look too good. why does this report have to be in ALL CAPS?!
so i found this
link as a referrer. wierd, couldn't find a link to my site anywhere
jen, Make sure there is a check in the box called "NO FILE RENAME" otherwise the file won't post. for the support pages on digitalrice.com,
click here
blogger is extremely sluggish today
z.digitalrice.com is up now. sweet and now if you use blogger, posting will be so much easier
ps2.ign.com: Sony Pulls in Over $250 Million at Launch. i helped contribute to this insane number although my portion might be lower than others. so we broke in two games,
dynasty warriors 2 and
smuggler's run, which i able to rent from blockbuster. dw2 is a really good and might spark a new genre (i got that from a review but i believe it). it's a fight fight hack and slash game with some great graphics. the fight moves are very limited and repetitive. but imagine yourself getting on a horse and
wiping out half an army with huge sword. it's unreal but that another game. sr is crazy taxi but with multi player.
i missed the growing pains movie reunion yesterday. dicaprio wasn't going to be on even though he was part of the last season. if you watched, please
email me about it
Wireless Developer Network - Introduction To XSLT and XPath. unfortunately, i could not get the example to work. it would have been a nice work around for using xml without having actually installed a xml parser on my machine. but i would be excluding a small section of users who still use netscape
watching
Rules of Engagement. the beginning looks pretty good
fonts seem wierd on netscape 4.08
Mike's Message 01/12/00 about gwbush
It appears you cannot read and write on an adult level. I'm sad to say it, but you may be a functional illiterate. How can we entrust our nuclear secrets to you if you can't read them?.
ouch
the exclude and favorites buttons aren't working on
mark.weblogs.com. gotta fix that and add the search app
i'm in the process of moving all my content (the very little i have) to blogger. it just seems easier to manage everything, plus i'm lazy
site info
this
site is currently running
apache/1.3.12 on
openbsd. the box is a compaq presario 774cds, intel pentium 75mhz, 725mb hd, 16mb of ram and a netgear ethernet card.
about me
i'm a twenty-something happily married dad living the sfbay area. i work as a qa tester, which means i get to break stuff. i was born in the philippines but grew up in jersey city. that's my brief bio, thanks for reading
when i post
monday - friday : 10 am to 5 pm and 9pm to 12 am
saturday and sunday : whenever i'm free
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made my own version of weblogs.com which is really plain. check it out at
mark.weblogs.com. i'll post more info later today
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hi
romeo. thanks for signing my guestbook but i'm not latin.
one dumb redesign to another. i'm not even changing that much. oh well
