Nov 15 2008

Real Love by The Beatles

neil

I’m not that great a fan of love songs but if ask to name one, I would pick Real Love by The Beatles. Written by John Lennon, recorded with just a hand-held tape recorder, remastered and completed a decade and a half after his death with the other Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo [...]


Nov 14 2008

Mitch Hedberg

neil

I accidentally came across Mitch Hedberg while looking for something good to download in LimeWire. Yeah, that’s illegal. But I was just looking although I downloaded it eventually.
So I found a 30+ minutes worth of comedy by someone named “Mitch Hedberg” and downloaded it. When I listened to it, it didn’t make sense. The jokes [...]


Nov 13 2008

naunsa nalang

neil

Ay pastilan!
Sakita gud.
A sad face use to mean so much, now it doesn’t. A sad face is now just a sad face.
—— After saving the post. ——–
Now that’s interesting! I never thought that WP could do that. I just put the code for the “sad face” and it automatically put the actual smiley. [...]


Nov 11 2008

WordPress Installation: A total beginner’s guide

neil

So you have read a lot of buzz about WordPress? Heard it from a friend who has his/her own blog? Read it from somewhere? And want to test it out?
There are several guides available on the net on how to install WordPress on your domain or your website, even how to set up your site [...]


Nov 5 2008

creativity: work under rules

neil

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. An alternative conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.[1]
The definition of creativity is interesting. It suggests that creativity is not a [...]


Nov 4 2008

Make your own manga

neil

Katherine Luther, a freelance writer and our Anime Guide at About.com, points out seven major steps in creating a manga. How to apply these steps may vary but it give a basis on how to start and proceed with the production. For clarity, let’s use the manga Hunter X Hunter throughout the discussion.

1. Write A [...]


Nov 4 2008

writing with dreams

neil

I always believe that dreams are really powerful imagination tool when you write a story. The things you see in dreams doesn’t need to follow the laws of the world, they just have to happen.

I had a weird dream last night. It’s about mirrors, wormholes and teleportation.
I felt like I have to go somewhere and [...]


Nov 3 2008

Og nagsugod na

neil

Og nagsugod na jud.
Dugay-dugay pud ko walay post. Na-busy man gud. Og para tsada ang pagsugod, gi-delete nako ang old na blog (Silverstripe) og gi-ilisan og WordPress. Mas okay na ang WP karon ay. Mas user-friendly og dali ra mag-manage. Dili awat sauna.
Ngano Bisaya? Kay Bisaya man ko! Pero, basin diay naay mubasa na di [...]


Apr 19 2008

Escaflowne

neil

For fans who fell in love with Anime during the mid 90’s, one of the greatest and most influential of animes is Escaflowne.
Hitomi Kanzaki is a 15-year old high school student and a member of her school’s track team, a typical high school student except for her unique interest in tarot card reading. Her normal [...]