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Battling the Summer Heat!

Posted on the May 29th, 2009 under ramblings by rayland

Summer conditions vary from location to location. There are places where summer is hot and dry, other places it’s hot and humid. Here in the Philippines, the latter applies. Even if you are shaded, you still feel hot and sticky because of high humidity levels.

If you’ve got money to spare, an air conditioner would work wonders for a room! It takes hot air from a room, refrigerates it, and releases cold air back into the room. This, however, can be very costly as it consumes a lot of electricity.

If you’re on a budget, an electric fan will do. Placement of electric fans are important so that air circulation is even within a room. Make sure to open all windows so that air could freely go in and out of your home. Most importantly, drink plenty of liquids. Maybe even take a couple of showers.

Rayland



Raynard, the Graduate

Posted on the April 27th, 2009 under ramblings by rayland

Saturday, April 25, 2009. My little brother, Raynard, graduated from UPLB with a B.S. degree in Computer Science.. There were more than a thousand graduates this year, and boy was Freedom Park packed with people. Not only that, it was pouring rain throughout the ceremony.. :)

That was nothing! It couldn’t stop the ceremony… “The show must go on!” Congratulations to all the graduates! The corporate world awaits you.. :)



New Theme and 2.7

Posted on the January 28th, 2009 under ramblings, software by rayland

If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed a new theme gracing my blog. :lol: I upgraded to wordpress 2.7 a while back, and i wanted to use a theme that would make use of new features.

The theme of choice is… CryBook by ThemeTation. A few tweaks here and there and it’s all set. It is a very light theme since it doesn’t have any images. Saves bandwidth and reduces loading time! :D

There are a few glitches though, enabling the “Automatically close comments on articles older than XX days” in discussion options breaks the theme. The sidebar goes under the content rather than at the side where it should be.

CryBook also breaks the styling of the SyntaxHighlighter Plugin as demonstrated by one of my posts here. Using my old theme doesn’t do this.

I’m sure there is a fix to this… I just hope I have time to check it out… :lol:

Rayland


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pr update is underway

Posted on the July 27th, 2008 under SEO, ramblings, the web by rayland

Google is in the process of updating PageRank (PR) of websites and by the looks of it, i’ll be losing a mark. :lol:

Not bad, considering the fact that i haven’t been able to update much these past few months! I’m get very busy at times. :(

So i guess It’ll be a drop from PR4 to PR3 then? not too shabby eh? :D

Rayland


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whew!

Posted on the June 18th, 2008 under ramblings by rayland

Hi everyone! Yes, I AM STILL ALIVE! Its been over a month since my last post, and you’re probably wondering why..

Well, I left my job in Iloilo and moved back to my hometown in Laguna! Packing all my stuff was a major pain. I used up about 7 balikbayan boxes and had to ship them by boat. Luckily all of my belongings arrived intact thanks to 2go.

Nothing really much happened after that. Unpacked my stuff, applied for internet connection, etc. etc.  :D

Anyways, since i’ve been gone for quite a while, i thought why not give some link love in this post..  tsk tsk tsk!

Ice9web (^_^)
A Dandy Sardonicism
Neoborn
TwEnTy-Two foR a MoMenT
whAt thE mAGuS hAS t0 SAy
Deathmarked


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Entrecard’s New Pricing System

Posted on the April 8th, 2008 under ramblings, the web by rayland

I was browsing through my Entrecard dashboard when i noticed my ad spots price suddenly increased. Turns out that they have a new pricing scheme. The base price is now 2 credits, and then for every advert waiting in line would mean another 2 credits.

Ads waiting on spot Formula Final price
0 2 2ec
1 2 2ec
2 2*2 4ec
3 2*2*2 8ec
4 2*2*2*2 16ec
5 2*2*2*2*2 32ec
6 2*2*2*2*2*2 64ec
7 2*2*2*2*2*2*2 128ec
8 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 256ec
9 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 512ec
10 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 1024ec

The scheme could be found at the “how the price is calculated” page.

Rayland