Posted by
Lloyd – May 26, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I really wish me and my friends Ivy and Chejae will get hired together in one of the companies we’ve applied into. We work well together (because we’re kickass). And Mike too if there’s a chance. And Eds, that CSS guy, he’s also kickass but he is now doing his tricks for a company far away from home.
“A team that codes together, stays together”. I remember saying this to them back when things started to fall apart. And I know I’m the only one who remembered because no one is listening but myself. lmao.
Posted by
Lloyd – May 21, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Today I woke up early and found myself in front of the mirror squeezing a pimple on my chin. Disgusting I know. After that, I turned on the TV and patiently waited for American Idol. While waiting I turned on the computer and sat for a while. Checked email, Twitter, Friendster, and Facebook. Signed in to YM! and wondered why there are few people online. I checked the time it was just 7:2x am so no wonder. Took one Quake cake for breakfast and that’s it. My morning routine is really bad I’m telling you. 8am, American Idol started.
I’m still in front of the computer just listening to the loud TV early in the morning. Checked email and I just got an interview invitation from a company. I’m so happy. Left the computer for a bit and focused watching. After a while I got tired of watching and went back to the computer. Hey, people are starting to pop out in YM! now. I guess it’s already their office hours. Went back to watch TV and Black Eyed Peas are performing. Awesome. After that nothing is interesting so went back to the computer and played a Linkin Park song - New Divide. I’m rocking the house with music and TV. Fixed my blog, updated the Project page and back to TV. Wow, I didn’t know Kiss (the band) is still playing. They got fat though. That means they’re really old. Right, back to the computer.
I think I’m losing the order of events here but whatever I really want to mention when Kara DioGuardi revealed her black bikini I was just..wow! But Katrina aka the Bikini Girl is sexier. LMAO, sorry. But enough of that. Many things have happened I go from computer to TV and back I just didn’t noticed it’s already pass 10 in the morning. American Idol came to an end and Kris Allen won. That sucked so I just turned off the TV.
Many more things happened and today I also learned how to use the map and learn the roads and streets of Makati. I’m an idiot so I really need to study the place because I’ll be going there for an interview. I also chatted with people whom I can ask the proper direction and got some ideas so I won’t be lost. I’ll be with Ivy anyway so if ever I got lost I got someone with me. ROFL. To wrap things up, sorry I know this is just non-sense, today is all about American Idol, the computer, TV, and maps.
What a waste of time writing this post. And such a waste of time reading this. Dumbass me.
Posted by
Lloyd – May 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Do you use instant messaging and likes to chat? If yes, I hope you can relate with me. If not, try to relate with me. I chat everyday. I talk with friends and other people. It’s fun. It’s a perfect activity to kill time. When you talk with people you often talk about many things and it will take you to different topics as you chat. Now to ask, how long does it take you to reply to someone you’re talking to? Usually when you’re talking about something you reply immediately as long as you receive a message. That’s the common practice of chatting. You send a message, they’d reply, and you respond again. It’s a cycle until you end a conversation or there is no need to reply. Give and take of answers. If someone is asking you, you should be able to respond immediately. This is important if you’re in a middle of a conversation. You do not leave a question hanging otherwise you’re being rude (unless you have informed the person that you’re busy or you’re doing something else). With the people that I’ve talked to, some just gets on my nerves. It’s irritating. It’s not about what we’re talking about, but the fact that whenever I send a message, the person I’m talking to takes 5 minutes or so to reply. It’s like you’re waiting for an email. But no, it’s instant messaging. You should be able to respond in an instant, whether you’re holding something in your one hand you can type slowly with the other but it’s not gonna take 5 minutes. This is more annoying if you’re asking something and you have to wait for too long for a reply and the only answer you get is one word - “yes”. What you see in your chat window is like the person is writing a paragraph and then you get a single word as a reply which is “yup”.
Person: (type-type-type-erase-type-type-erase-erase-type) 11:40:35am
<takes a while still no reply>
Person: yup. 11:45:46am
What was that all about? Sometimes you ask a question, say 3 questions and you only get an answer for the 3rd.
You: what’s the site again?
You: do i need to sign up?
You: where do i see the instructions?
Person: you can see it at the bottom of the page.
<Then you have to ask the questions again>
Is the person you’re talking to ever reading your chat? I guess not. When I chat I always reply to every question. But for some people, they just don’t care. They won’t bother reading up your first questions and answer them. Aside from the fact that they can’t respond immediately and send an annoying short answer, they don’t read what you’re saying.
So there, I have no problems with people chatting but I hope you get the point. I don’t mind chatting with people who types slow (because I’m not a fast typer too) but I appreciate them more because they can respond immediately as soon as you send a message. Don’t be annoyed if the person is busy, though.
Posted by
Lloyd – May 20, 2009 at 10:48 am
© Copyright: see author in the original source of this image.
Posted by
Lloyd – May 20, 2009 at 10:42 am
Linkin Park’s new song for Transformers: Revenge of the fallen was released yesterday. Before I even heard the full song I already have seen the trailer (it’s a video with Linkin Park in the studio). It reminds me of What I’ve Done and I know some people noticed it too. The new song rocks, you can tell it’s still Linkin Park but with a new kind of sound. Listening to it makes you feel like it’s for a Transformers movie because of the different sounds you’ll here aside from the guitar and drum beats. Linkin Park really have taken their songs into a new direction thus maintaining who they are and what they sound. However, listening to their new music and comparing them with their previous albums, I think their previous ones are more dramatic. The message of each song from the lyrics they had written before are direct and clearer. Or maybe I’m just not that deep to understand the meaning of their new songs. LMAO. Anyways, all their songs are awesome. It’s still Linkin park and they have all the awesomeness!
Linkin Park - New Divide
Posted by
Lloyd – May 20, 2009 at 10:29 am
It happened again. The dream (here). I don’t like it. It’s like my dreams are dissing me. Probably I should stop thinking about it. Lol.
Posted by
Lloyd – May 19, 2009 at 3:56 pm
If you noticed I have a ‘Back to top’ link appearing at the bottom right everytime you scroll down the page. Wonder how it was made? I’ll tell you. It’s quite simple. What you need is a div containing the text, apply some css and add an event using jQuery.
First, create the div:
<div id="toTop">^ Back to Top</div>
Then add style to it, add this in your css file or inside <style> tag:
#toTop {
width:100px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
background:#f7f7f7;
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
position:fixed; /* this is the magic */
bottom:10px; /* together with this to put the div at the bottom*/
right:10px;
cursor:pointer;
display:none;
color:#333;
font-family:verdana;
font-size:11px;
}
And last, the jQuery code:
There you have it! Simple isn’t it? 
This works in Firefox 3.0.10 - 3.5.5, Internet Explorer 7 (Strict Mode), Google Chrome.
Remember: On IE 7, your page needs to be at strict mode, just add a doctype at the top of your page:
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Hope that helps
Sorry no IE 6 support 
Posted by
Lloyd – May 19, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Right, I’m going to tell you something about my WP theme and why I like it. It’s called Simplish - It’s a WordPress variant of the Scribbish theme for blogs (definition taken from it’s official site). It’s really that simple and yet it looks awesome. It looks clean and nice. It’s classic! I love the fact that it’s really easy to customize. The codes are easy to follow because it doesn’t use any additional confusing classes and functions so customizing is easy. It supports widgets and it supports gravatars too! Nifty, eh? Well, actually it has more than that which you can read from here.
Choosing Simplish…
I was first looking for a theme suited for me, that is, being a programmer. I wanted to have a simple and clean layout. No fancy decorations and not colorful. I want to get away from the “designer” concept of a blog. I know looks is important but for me it doesn’t matter (in this case). So after seeing Simplish I knew this is the one I’m looking for. It has the right simplicity. However, having said that I wanted a theme that will suit me being a programmer, I never meant to use this blog talking about just programming but also for other things I want to rant. I just want to make myself feel that I’m in my zone.
What can you say?
If you’re a big fan of premium themes and you prefer using colorful ones for WP, then I guess we have a different taste. I myself has taste for design. I know what looks good for me by just looking at it. However in this blog it’s not the design I’m after. I just want to give it a nice and clean look. If one of my colleague sees this he might say:
Why is your blog like that? What happened?
or maybe
I like your old blog better. It looks nicer.
Right. That’s something people might say because I’ve used the fancy ones before. But not this time. I’m sticking to this until I can find a better one which is also simple. But I doubt I can see simpler and as elegant as this.
Update: 02.20.2010 - I just made this theme a slightly colorful one so I’m taking back whatever I’ve said here that I don’t want this colorful :p
Posted by
Lloyd – May 19, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Thought I can get away from blogging but since I have this new setup I just proved myself wrong. Just the other night I was thinking of what I can do to kill time every time I sit in front of the computer. What I mostly do is browse, chat, read tutorials, and sometimes write codes. I felt something is missing from my daily routine. I post daily in Twitter so atleast I can say I’m doing something else aside from browsing. So, right, yesterday night I installed #wordpress (I already have wordpress installed but I want a new installation). I was thinking of using my previous blog posts from my previous blog so I will have old posts in my archives but I didn’t because I wanted to start all over.
Posted by
Lloyd – May 18, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Like the programming languages I’ve learned in the past I think I should start everything that I do by saying hello to the world. So as a kind of ritual this is the official Hello World post of this blog
Oh man, I never thought I’d be back blogging and doing this again. I stopped for a while but I guess I can’t stop thinking about writing stuff (that no one reads anyway but me). I’m so into Twitter lately but I realized 140 characters isn’t always enough. So, here I am again back from scratch. I don’t have plans re-using my old posts from my previous blog setup (under this site) because it’d be silly. This thing..it’s so simple, it took me about less than 5 minutes to setup including page load time because my internet connection is rubbish. My theme is called Simplish btw, it’s so simple but awesome!
So yeah, whatever. See you in my next post.
Simple guy who lives a simple life. A programmer with random thoughts trying hard to be a blogger. That's just me I guess.