Month: November 2010

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Hell, It’s About Time!

By on Friday, November 19, 2010

Finally completed downloading the Starcraft II installer as well as all the patches. I was able to download everything overnight, much less time than I initially expected. Due to the 1GB per day limit to its “unlimited” surfing, it would have taken a few days at an estimated cost of P200. So I decided to use Globe’s time-based browsing which is P5 for 15 mins or P20 per hour. Total cost is about the same at P200 but with no usage limit. You would think postpaid is not a complete failure until you realize that time-based browsing is also available with prepaid. Anyway, looks like I’m now late in finishing Red Dead Redemption. Gotta double time on that now.

UPDATE: Still haven’t finished Red Dead Redemption. But couldn’t resist the urge and played a few missions :D

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Autistic

By on Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Back in high school, friends and classmates would tease me as being AB for Abnormal. During college and the first few years of work, friends and a colleague or two would tease me as being OT for Autistic. All done in jest, I’m sure. The teasing petered off as I settled down with work in the IT industry where AB and OT is the practical norm. Maybe people just grew up. Or maybe because I got more senior :P But once in a while, some people still tell me I’m insensitive. On a whim, I took this online test and I got a whooping 35! Maybe I should go see a specialist and know what gives. I just might find out I’m an aspie or autie. Boy, would I be glad!

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Objective: Objective-C

By on Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Since I’ve recently decided to study iPhone programming and and since Starcraft II is still a few days away, I was able to spend some time learning Objective-C, the programming language of choice for iPhone development. Since, I’ve gone through quite a few programming languages (LOGO, BASIC, Pascal, C, some C++, Java, and more recently Flex), picking up the syntax and the basics was a relative breeze. I expect, as usual, things will get exciting once I start working with the iOS APIs. Haven’t felt this excited in a while!

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Buying Starcraft II

By on Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Since I’m almost done with Red Dead Redemption on the PS3, I decided to finally get Starcraft II. Everything went smoothly at first. I logged on to the Blizzard store and picked a version. I decided on the US version since it is less expensive at around P2600 compared to P3600 for the Asian version. I paid and started downloading.

Then I hit a snag: Downloading the Blizzard Downloader was so slow using my Sun Wireless Broadband connection. After finally completing the download, the Blizzard download site won’t recognize the downloader as authorized anymore. I tried it several times with the same result.

I needed a faster connection. So now it looks like my US version savings is going down the drain. Since Globe’s unlimited surfing promo doesn’t work for postpaid, I borrowed Michelle’s phone, sent “SUPERSURF50” to 8888 and tried downloading again. Success! I was able to get the downloader and start the download of the game client.

After a few hours, I hit another snag: Globe SuperSurf “unlimited” surfing stops after you have downloaded 1GB of data. It not just slows your connection, it completely stops you from connecting. Fail! And you can’t even register for another day of SUPERSURF 50 because the previous one has to expire first! Double fail by Globe.

I guess it will be a few days before I can play.

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Quitting While You’re Ahead

By on Sunday, November 14, 2010

Today, Manny Pacquiao will be fighting Antonio Margarito. Some people think that Pacquiao should just quit while he’s ahead. Now there’s something wrong with that. One, quit is not in the dictionary of a winner. Two, there is always someone, some place, some achievement ahead of you. So why quit when you can blaze trails and earn more, learn more, BE more? To paraphrase Thomas Edison: If you don’t fail, you’re not trying hard enough. Good luck Manny! Win or lose, you will always be a champion. But preferably win, of course.

UPDATE: Win he did!

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