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Some changes…

Okay, first thing’s first: The site’s wider width. I’ve thought about elevating my web standards to something else. So, yeah. I now think that 800×600 is crap. It’s 2008, for crying out loud! Everyone has at least a 1024×768 resolution by now. Heck, I have people running their monitors the highest capable resolution. For now, I’ve increased the width of the site (I mean, every page on this site) to about a hundred pixels more, and if it goes well, I’ll try getting flexibility on them. Although 900 pixels is already enough to view it.

Second, I’ve kinda read about the tags versus categories debate in a while, and yeah, I’ve been using my tags as categories for a while. (Or categories as tags? I dunno, it’s very confusing.) So now, I’m putting both tags and categories a place of their own. I’m in the verge of putting the tags on each post.

And last, WordPress 2.7 (dubbed Coltrane). I’ve upgraded it from 2.6 last night, and its panel interface is fantastic. The amount of engineering (and by that I meant the web design and development) they’ve put in there must’ve been very significant, yet excruciating at the same time. I mean, I really can’t help looking at it over and over again. I’m thinking I’ll be getting some inspiration from this. (Not copying the code — that’ll be really bad — but the ideas, the design of the interface, etc.)

Oh yeah, I’ll also be adding several things in my portfolio soon. I’ve done some designs during these gut-wrenching months — and take note, I’ve been doing them during exams, projects at school, things like that; a bit idiotic move, if you ask me. Not that many though; people aren’t outsourcing enough projects to me. (Jay, where’s my next project?! Haha)

Rhetorical eloquence.

First of all, I’d like to start this blog entry by a simple conversation I’ve had with Gwen minutes ago, while I was thinking of what I’m supposed to be writing here. She told me what my intro should be; the four-liner chat log says everything about it:

8:41:36 PM Foster, Gwendelyn: i really don’t know what to say
8:41:39 PM Foster, Gwendelyn: but i want to blog
8:42:52 PM JMacalinao: tapos… (Translated: then…)
8:45:25 PM Foster, Gwendelyn: then say random things

Then random things I shall write! Although my Twitter basically says everything about what’s happening in my day-to-day living, including my replies to other people’s actions, there are also things I haven’t included there.

Like this site, for example. First off, I’d like to thank Mallory for changing my link on her site, without even telling her what my new site is! It’s either she has meticulously psychic powers, or she basically looked at her comments, where coincidentally, I posted one. Second, I got Janine to post my link on her blog, because I basically told her to. That’s three links in total now. Come on, guys, I need a lot of your websites — and traffic — on my site! Heh. (I’m thinking of putting up my host’s link here too. I really have to thank Jonathan for hosting my sites.)

I haven’t thought of how I would implement my portfolio page, but I do know WordPress is going to do the rough job for me, setting up all those page. Structure, and as always, content are the big problems in this portfolio.

Things haven’t been going so well with our software project, EASE@Haven, mainly because of the bombardment of documentations and the lack of development man-power. The interface is almost done with their main functionality intact, but the other part of functionality that we all love, the error checking part, is so difficult to implement in the system, that I had to force myself to use plugins along with the already easy jQuery library. I hope we get everything ready by this Thursday.

Other projects have been bugging me lately, too, like the microprocessors/microcontrollers project. We had to do a bicycle speedometer using a sort of old-ass microprocessor (M68HC11). Since I’m doing all the programming (in freaking assembly code), I shouldn’t have the problem with how I’m supposed to work the program with the circuit. But it seems we haven’t done anything about the circuit itself, which is a bummer.

Oh, and don’t forget all the papers we have to submit in the coming days! They’re falling on us like hailstorms!

As for my iPhone updates, I’ve upgraded it to the recent 2.0.1 firmware. Nothing new. What’s new is the extraordinary theming you can have when you’ve jailbroken it and installed WinterBoard. It’s basically like SummerBoard on steroids, because its theming capability is so amazing. Who knew that you can make a theme that changes — no, animates — your wallpapers in your homescreen! Definitely blown away on this one.

Hmm… Looks like only tech and academics are the only stuff I can brag and/or rant about for today. Other stuff have been full of dullness and false alarms in the past month, although I can’t complain about them now. I’ve already done that in the past five years, and I can’t afford being a broken record. (Yes, being one is a waste of time and money.)

The 8th of August of 2008 is a lucky day, can’t say anything wrong about that. It’s just the case of where the luck is going (or went, since it already occurred to you).

Edit: It’s officially 11:11PM while I’m writing this. I wanna greet my cousin Jacque for her twenty-third birthday today (August 11th). I almost forgot it until my Friendster birthday e-mail alerted me. Hurray for unsolicited e-mails!

Coming soon: Derivatrix v2!

That’s all I can say right now. There are no screenshots of the concept for you to see, but just take my word for it: It’s undeniably sexy. And yeah, I’m going back to my favorite color. (One can guess, but it’s not green. :P) I sort of miss the color very much.

I’m still thinking about how I’m going to code this; either with WordPress as my foundation or just pure hardcore PHP/textfile and jQuery. Can anyone pick one for me? xD

Update (6/20): The quite-sexy coming soon page is in the main page. And I decided to use WordPress. Now, to make the design…

The truth about LoveAlgo.

Okay, so what exactly is LoveAlgo, the cryptic code that I’ve showed to some of you in my Multiply blog? It’s partially true that the code is externally based on the [supposed] evolution of love between two entities (if such exists), but I’ve hidden some of its actual meaning. What? You thought that it’s just some “for-fun” algorithm so it’s basically just that?

Well, to be frank, LoveAlgo is actually the abbreviated name of the Less-obfuscated verification Algorithm. If you’ve actually analyzed the code, it’s actually easy to decipher, right? That’s why it’s “less-obfuscated.” But, due to the powers of server-side coding, this algorithm is almost at par with the best encryption and/or decryption modules. I’m not talking about MD5 and Base64, you dumbass, but I’m talking about making it better than just basic password authentications.

And now that we’re talking about passwords, I’m currently thinking of an extension to LoveAlgo. I think I’m going to call it Dynamic LoveAlgo, as the code for encryption and decryption is, well, dynamic. I won’t get into details about it, anyway, since it’ll be part of EASE@Haven. I’m thinking about not giving it documentation, too. Sorry, INTROSE professor: Classified information.