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Work, Browsers, and Context-Switching

Someone on the PLUG mailing list said to an email I sent out:

Shanghai, May 2007

Some Popular Myths About JM Ibanez

• JM Ibanez is Sanjaya Malakar in disguise.
• JM Ibanez does not sleep. He just goes into suspend mode.
• JM is a programming god.
• JM doesn't troubleshoot computer problems or software bugs; computers are just scared of him.
• JM Ibanez is actually a bunch of Linux daemons that have become sentient, written and maintained at a secret laboratory somewhere in southern Metro Manila.

You know you've had too much caffeine...

… when you’re suddenly tempted to do an impression of a dog humping a pole. Or an impression of a monkey in a cage. Or you suddenly have these other crazy impressions fill your head.

My Sister Is Really My Sister

On our way to dinner last Sunday, my mom inquired as to what restaurant nearby accepted credit cards.

My Journey Into Computing (Part 3)

I decided to actually write about my experiences and my introduction to computing. I wanted it down for some semblance of posterity. This is part 3; you can read part 1 here, and part 2 here. I don’t intend there to be a part 4, but feedback is much appreciated. Yes, yes– this part is long-delayed.

More Git

So, because I'm such a geek, I'll post more about my Git experience.

Is The Long Hiatus Over Yet?

(...or, JM updates. Finally.)

Stupid IE

I was just bitten by an incredibly stupid bug in IE. While working on a small webapp which had a drop-down menu (built from CSS and ordinary lists), I was miffed to find the menu seemingly going behind a drop-down (select) form field in IE. After trying the obvious fixes (setting a CSS z-order for the menu, resetting the z-order for the controls including the select control), I did a Google search, reasoning that someone must have encountered a similar problem.

Gnus, Or Emacs' Reason For Being

After using Evolution for quite a bit to read my work mail, and after some deliberation, I decided to switch to Gnus, as I'm already doing a lot of my editing and what-not inside Emacs. I also wanted to keep a small memory footprint, as I'm using my work laptop as a development machine too— Firefox as it is grows to 40% of the machine's memory when I use it, and adding Evolution would mean that running builds on the machine would consume swap as well.