DivisionByZero

Since people have been messaging me like I’m their 24-hour technical support…

#!/usr/bin/ruby
1000.times { print "I will not log-in to YM during office hours! \n" }

Bought new books last week.

Practical JavaScript for the Usable Web - I have yet buy a good JavaScript book. Already have the Peachpit one but it was more of a copy-the-code-and-paste-in-your-html type book that never really teaches you about the JavaScript language. This one is better. Just the right amount of theory and practice with a focus on how the language fits in making your site more usable.

In case you’re wondering why JavaScript, I am learning it because I think every web developer should know how to do client-side scripting/validation to save on inefficient trips to the server just to validate input. More importantly, AJAX seems to be a really cool technology and the “AJ” in that acronym means “Asynchronous Javascript.”

Triple Your Reading Speed - Didn’t plan on buying this but I thought at the last minute that anything that can improve the self should always be tried. With the one-month break coming up and the long list of books-to-read, this just might be useful. Being able to touch type significantly changed my life, I hope being able to “AcceleRead” does the same.

These guys are crazy! Hahahahaha!

Mabus (12/7/2005 1:13:46 AM): it reminded me of pirates of silicon valley…. when Bill Gates was trying to hit some chicks..what a loser

mbaluyos (12/7/2005 1:14:26 AM): well.. now that he’s a zillionaire I doubt if he needs to even try…

And yeah, if you’re looking for something “amusing” to read, there’s the Sex Tips for Geeks by ESR.

I’m thinking about putting my blog on a real hosting service. Any recommendations?

Would also like to know if it’ll be better to have a “catch-all” blog or to have two or three blogs that are more focused on certain topics? In the latter case, I just might split the current blog into (1) personal blog (2) technical/work-related blog, and (3) movie reviews blog.

What do you guys think?

Finally checked one item off my 43things - “fill up my piggy bank.”

In case you’re wondering, the total amount inside was P1,981 (pretty amazing, I was born in 1980 - so it was just a peso more, I wonder what that could mean). I’ll be using that money to buy gifts for my siblings and cousins this Christmas.

This week, I just might buy another piggy bank that’s twice bigger than the previous one. Then, it’ll be approximately P4,000 when it’s completely filled up - just enough to buy a new DVD burner

Something worth posting. This is from “The Rule of Four” by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. Jen had me borrow the book after I finished the ever-popular but hard-to-get-a-copy-of (at least for me) “The Da Vinci Code.” Still stuck on Chapter Two though - probably be reading this again during the Christmas break:

“… The magic of Paul’s intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I’ve ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down. To count a hundred million stars, he told me once, at the rate of one per second, sounds like a job that no one could possibly complete in a lifetime. In reality, it would only take three years. The key is focus, a willingness not to be distracted. And that is Paul’s gift: an intuition of just how much a person do slowly.”

Another proof that, it takes more than IQ to succeed - and something that I always keep on forgetting.