Monthly Archive for December, 2008

Christmas Misery

Published on December 25, 2008 in ramblings. 2 Comments
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D. Santa-san by Rogelio

Oh my! Time goes by so fast, to the extent where the year is almost at its end and it’s Christmas again. But instead of being happy and all jolly, I’m here bored, feeling deserted and currently enjoying my present: swollen gums. I feel all sorts of stuff when I’m in pain.

I got the present since Tuesday (Dec. 23), by accidentally hitting my gum while chewing barbecue meat with my molars. It’s the gum after the wisdom tooth, so it’s blank there. It wasn’t that bad that day though. I felt that it was somehow hit, but there wasn’t any pain… yet.

Yesterday, I felt that my gums were still swollen, but I only feel uneasiness when I use the part of my mouth with the swollen gum to chew food, so i used the opposite side of my mouth on chewing.

Now, I do feel some pain. Just a tiny one indeed but it’s annoying. And every movement with my mouth triggers some uneasiness to my swollen gum. After eating, my gum hurts a bit due to the continuous movement of my mouth.

I don’t know on why I have to suffer like this during Christmas. Am I supposed to not enjoy any of the food we’re having today? This sucks.

WordPress 2.7 Coltrane

Published on December 11, 2008 in websites. 18 Comments Tags: , .

wordpress-logoToday, WordPress had their official release on 2.7 “Coltrane”. I was so excited at installing the new version, since Coltrane has a lot of changes regarding the User Interface and the whole “look and feel “of the admin panel.

After downloading the Zip file, I started out looking at some files, and replaced my config file with the new one, since there were some differences which I thought would be needed by the new version. After uploading the files, I immediately pointed my browser to /wp-admin/upgrade.php.

I was told that my database was old and needs to be upgraded, so I pressed the continue button. Then I was forwarded to install.php. I was shocked but I though that it was just reconfirming values about me and my site.

Then I was redirected to a page giving me the new password. Then when I logged in, my posts, pages, links, everything was gone. The problem was caused by me though, so I needed to find a way to retrieve my data back.

Dreamhost LogoThen I started losing hope of ever getting my data back, losing interest in my blog site due to the incident, but I didn’t give up yet, I tried looking for backups. In my Dreamhost account, there is a backups user but unfortunately, the data backed-up only stays for about five days and all was gone. I was about to post something really really bad on my blog due to my data loss, though I remembered that in DreamHost, there is a “restore database” option. That was my last resort, when I accessed the DH mysql admin panel, I tried on the “restore database” option. At my luck that I was able to restore my database to the state it had 13 hours ago. I was able to restore my data. Thank goodness, then I uploaded the old version of the config file, and Tada! My blog is back!

I was so happy that Dreamhost has a Restore Database feature. If  it wasn’t for that, I would have deleted my blog and would wait for decades later, or maybe just months later to open a blog again.

The new WordPress Admin looks awesome that the last version. I can access all the pages in one click, unlike the past version that they were sub navigations under a tab. The Dashboard is now dashing! I love the part where I can organize the positioning of the the elements to what I feel is much more important to me. This version is definitely better and easier to use than WordPress 2.6 below.

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WIO Meeting and V

Published on December 3, 2008 in movies and ramblings. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

We had our regular WIO meeting just yesterday. I was able to ask Wayne about the problems I encountered with the sequence diagrams I’m making. Wayne also had a problem with his laptop. He can only enter the command line and unable to access his desktop, he couldn’t even shutdown the computer properly. The problem was caused by LAMP, and some applications he installed. It feels too bad though since he was successful in installing DataMapper. So, he decided to install the needed programs for WIO in Ma’am Gigi’s Laptop instead, besides having crazy internet connection, no wireless driver for ubuntu, me and Wayne was forced to get out in the room we were in while Ma’am Gigi went somewhere else.

We then evacuated to another room (computer laboratory)  where the teacher was a good friend of Ma’am Gigi. We were able to find wired internet in there though one of the lab computer’s UTP cable. Wayne started installing but ended up having same problems he encountered while installing in his laptop. He must also install LAMP to Ma’am Gigi’s computer instead of using XAMPP which encounters an error when compiling Do-MySQL. But the alloted time for the meeting wasn’t enough since Wayne still needs to go to work, he then brought Ma’am Gigi’s laptop with him and hopefully be able to install everything WIO needs, and fix his laptop.

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

After our meeting, I went to Rogelio’s place to hang out (yes, that’s a pattern meeting -> Rog’s place). We watched the movie V for Vendetta, I know its an old movie but I was only able to watch it today. The story revolved around the main character – V who seeks for a peaceful country and revenge for those people who had done bad things to him which were already in a high position in the government. He then died in the end contented with his plans fully accomplished.  I liked the plot of the movie and the main character V. He was a skillful fighter, a master of strategies and a good cook. I was moved by his will to have revenge and how he died gracefully in the end.

Arriving at my house, there was no internet connection at Windows and I needed to be online, so I decided to use Ubuntu instead (this often happens). So I installed Visual Paradigm in Ubuntu, its a good thing that it is available to a wide range of operating systems. I had problems with VP having a blank screen and can’t further continue in installation, the easy solution on that problem is turning off the effects on Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects, and everything should run smoothly. Also, the VP in Ubuntu is faster than the one installed in Windows, so I was having more fun creating diagrams here in Ubuntu. Now, my diagrams are finished and I’ll be moving on to the user interface prototypes.