by admin in Blog, Personal Tags: Christmas, Personal on November 23, 2006
I love Christmas …
The thing about this year is that most people around me are losing the spirit of the season. Claiming it to be ordinary or to not even liking it, anymore and even … never did. They throw the season away b/c that’s all it is to them, another season, another time of year that passes by just the same. They throw it away w/o opening their hearts to it … but how can you love anything, if you don’t allow yourself to feel it …
I love Christmas, not b/c of the commercial hype, although I have to admit that it’s getting worse every year … but some part of me agrees to it … sometimes I also need that extra reminder, that extra ray of light to show me hope, that extra ornament that is just impossible to ignore to remind me that it is not just another time of year …
Some might call these people crazy … but at least they cared enough, at least they loved enough, at least they felt … or at least they want to feel …
The holiday season … the Christmas spirit … if you can’t feel it, there’s nothing on this earth that could help you understand … it’s not about the presents, it’s not about the ornaments, it’s not about who lights up their house most … it’s about family, it’s about coming together as one and making them feel like kings and queens, listened to during the year, special just as they are … it’s about bringing smiles and showing you care …
The Christmas spirit … you can smell it when you step outside, you breath it in and it flows through you vains bringing a smile to your face, knowing that it is not just another season … it’s the time of year that invites you on a journey that only a heart open to it can undertake … if you can’t feel it, nothing on this earth can help you understand …
by admin in Blog, Technical Tags: image resize, online tool on November 19, 2006
If you don’t always have a photo editing program on the computer you’re working on and need an image resized, you can also do it online here:
http://resizr.lord-lance.com/default.asp
and … they have a firefox extension … what more could you want 
by admin in Apple, Blog, Entertainment Tags: Apple, Diablo, macbook on November 19, 2006
When I tried installing Diablo 2 and the expansion pack on my intel Mac, it kept telling me “You cannot open the application Diablo II Installer because it is not supported on this system”.
After doing some research, I found out that this is b/c the older CD’s do not include an OSX installer, they are OS9 which isn’t supported on intel Macs. Luckely, there’s a workaround for this:
On the Blizzard site you can download the OSX Native Installer (which also includes the latest patches) and then use this to install Diablo II as well as the Lord of Destuction add on (if you have it).
Good luck and see you on the other side …
by admin in Blog, Personal Tags: Personal, TV on November 18, 2006
Once in a while it’s time to let the new come in and give the old a chance to retire … the same goes for the TV in my room …
The TV in my room had been suffering from the “green-dot-in-the-middle-of-the-screen” disease everytime I turned it off, even unplugged it, for a while now. But, my dad assured me that as long as I kept unplugging it after viewing, there was no chance it could explode, so I still felt pretty safe around it … plus you couldn’t see any of it while it was playing, so I didn’t really feel the need yet to replace it … (ok ok, you could argue that I’m way too attached to my things ) …
But, anyway … yesterday, my dad comes home and he says that he just bought something, a surprise for me … and ow yeah … it was a black sweet thin TV :d … and I am completely loving it :d
I said goodbye to my old one:
And I said hello to my new one, a 23″ LCD TV from Samsung:
Life can indeed be good …
by admin in Blog, Technical Tags: IE, scrollbar on November 17, 2006
IE reserves space for their vertical scrollbar. This, isn’t always very desirable … Of course, there’s no problem if you actually need the scrollbar, but when you don’t …
When you use a bgcolor1 in the body and place a div tag in it over the full width of your page with another bgcolor2, you’ll see that in the space reserved for the vertical scrollbar bgcolor1 will appear and not the desired bgcolor2.
This is b/c IE reserves that space for the scrollbar, whether you need it or not … FF on the other hand never reserves the space … the downside of this could be that when the scrollbar is needed you’ll see your page content move. But … in this example, it still is the lesser of the 2 evils …
So, the workaround for IE, so that it doesn’t reserve that space, is:
body {
overflow: auto;
}
HTML {
overflow: auto;
}
you need both!!
by admin in Blog, My Poetry Tags: poem, Smile on November 9, 2006
What the world could be …
Close your eyes for a while
endolge me …
A beautiful summer’s day
A gentle breeze whispering
through the neverending green fields of grass
In the midst of all that is pure you lay
gazing at the endless clouds that pass
passionately playing
shifting shapes at their own pace
miles away from anything real
conscience of time nor place
nothing but utter peace to feel
Now hold the memory for a while
And know that for everything you see
Only takes the tenderness of your smile
To open up this world
for me
–
My latest poem …
