your friendly neighborhood web developer

The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験 nihongo nōryoku shiken), or JLPT, is a standardized test to evaluate and certify the language proficiency of non-native Japanese speakers. It is held once every year, on the first Sunday of December.

The Japanese Language Proficiency  Test (JLPT) is around the corner, it is actually this Sunday Dec 07, 08. And because I’m working in a japanese company… I’ll be there in la salle to try on JLPT level 4. My permit is secured, I’m reviewing double time (oooowwwwssss?!) and im still blogging hahahah!

First of all… I’m not expecting myself to pass this exam, nihongo is so damn hard! But who knows… lady luck might be smiling on me. Also…I need the incentive that the company will give the passers hahahah! This will also give a certification under my belt which might help me in finding other jobs.

This is your friendly neighborhood web developer and I’m getting ready for JLPT (zzzzzzzzZZZZZ…)

I’ve been surfing the net when I came to this site that tell me how to open a nested browser using Mozilla Firefox.

 Then an idea came to my mind <evil grin>

What you need?

• Firefox browser (I’ve done it with FIrefox 3)
• Firebug plug-in (this baby have a lot of use)

Here is what you do:

First step is to start Firefox, of course!

Next is to type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul to the address bar, you will then have a Firefox inside your Firefox

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666-satan

This other two manga that I have been reading is slowly becoming boring, slow story, not much action. So I tried to scan other mangas in the site where I read all the scanlations. And to my surprise, I found this manga written by Kishimoto. NO, it is not Mashashi… it is the other Kishimoto, his twin brother…Seishi Kishimoto.

It is just curiosity at first that drives me to read Seishi Kishimoto’s work, 666 Satan. Then, after a few pages, that turned to be a few chapters… I found myself a new manga to read! It must be in their genes. The story, the humor, the drawing… I love it!

The story of 666 Satan is about Jio, no…it is about O.P.T.S. Hmmmmm, it is about Ruby Crescent… tsk, about O-parts. Ok ok, it is about Ruby Crescent a treasure hunter (???) who looks for O-parts (some mysterious items) who meet Jio Freed, an O.P.T.S. (person who can use an O-part). Well, just read it! This is your friendly neighborhood web developer and I’m going back into some manga reading!

After reading this freaking book about dads, money and being a millionaire and a juicy talk with a dear friend… I’ve been thinking of many things

Will buying stocks at this moment be that rewarding?

Are my skills enough to run a business? Am I ready for the risks?

What business is likely to last and grow these days?

Do I really want to stay in my current company, in my country?

I want to be a millionaire, when will I become one?

Ok ok… I want an internet shop, at least I have some passion for internet, tech and computers. Damn it, the investments for internet cafes are so high and I don’t have the resources.

Food business! But… what food in particular? How much will it cost me? Will I buy a franchise?

Damn that Rich Dad, Poor Dad (yeah I’m a bit late reading it, I just happen to grab it at a bookstore because nothing else seems interesting at the moment)… gets my brain into some thinking. But then, it makes sense. I don’t want to work my aching butt until I am old. I want to cherish some luxury and comfort in life. Darn it, how would I begin?

This is your friendly neighborhood web developer…  I am having a head ache thinking and I don’t know what to think of that Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

It is weekends once again, and as the cycle goes… I am here home taking break from work and the metro smog.

Well, going home during Fridays have its tolls (read: weekend night outs), but the rest that I get from it is far more rewarding. I also get to use the internet at home for free, and the best part is it is UNRESTRICTED! Yeah, I usually settle down in front of the laptop when I get home.

Next is the breather from pollution. It is quite commercialized here in the province already but not as polluted as Manila. I also observed that it is much cooler here. I also get to see and enjoy the scene of big green fields that I think doesn’t exist in the metro anymore.

One of the best parts is… eating real food!!! Yeah! My diet is only applicable during weekdays, but not during weekends, not at home!

And my bed!!! Oooohh miss my bed, it’s small and soft, but I sleep very soundly when I am sleeping on it.

And of course, I go home to spend time with my family… as the saying goes “There’s no place like home”

I have here some interesting illusion pictures… unlike David “fake” Blaine, I am amazed by pictures like this:

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Literally, this blog almost got to a point where it has to have to restart again.

Why? … it is  because of this silly person name “ME”. Yeah, that freak tried tweaking things up… ending in losing all posts and even his login, darns it.

Good thing a friend of mine have saved my theme… and I, on the other hand, managed to restore the posts. Whew! Thank heavens I won’t have to reboot “warmreboot”!

From Wikipedia

Angels & Demons is a bestselling mystery novel by Dan Brown. Published in 2000, it introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the principal character of Brown’s subsequent, better-known novel The Da Vinci Code.

An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion or flipscript, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. 

This book is my inspiration for making ambigrams, like any other person who have read it. But my ambirams are still far from perfection when you compare it to John Langdon’s (the one who did the ambigrams in Dan Brown’s book)

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Last night as I was eating dinner I hear my housemate ranting about her figure. She was there in front of the mirror looking at what she claimed as her fat body. She insisted that she should lose some pounds, whether it would be through exercise or diet. 

I face the same kind of problem about before but not after an experimental diet that worked for me. After being hired as a systems engineer/web developer I spend most of my time in front of the computer, sitting … ok, with some eating. And sometimes pigging out on what I want to relieve stress. It sure took its toll on my weight. From an average of 115 lbs, my weight rocketed to almost 150 lbs. in a short time. I was quite bothered by this so I started my experimental diet.

Here is what I did… » Read more after the jump →

I am trying to find something interesting on the web when I mispelled Yahoo as Yahooo, Google still gave a suggestion of what I might be looking for but still return many website with the mispelled word. Amazed with this I tried searching for Yaho and Yahho, again Google found many hits with this keywords

The keyword yahooo might be popular because it is an expresion… of joy, of success… of whatever.  But the other two are different things, i really think they are mispelled. Or they may be spelled that way on purpose, read: SEO.

The Yaho/Yahooo/Yahho Research

I try to research and this is what I found out:

Yahooo have an average search volume of  110,000 and is searched 90,500 times on August.

Yaho have an average search volume of  246,000 and is searched 201,000 times on August.

Yahho have an average search volume of  90,500 and is searched 74,000 times on August.

Man! that sure is a lot of searches for mispelled words!