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Any site still hosted under the Geocities free hosting will be gone forever tomorrow, October 26, unless the site owner upgrades to Yahoo web hosting or the site is moved to another web host.

Archive.org is trying to keep a copy of as many Geocities sites as they can but only one of my two sites have so far been stored. Also, I will have no control whatsoever on the copies stored in the waybackmachine servers.

With that, I have moved two of my websites hosted in Geocities into this domain. You may now access them at pisaywv.rexdelsar.com (formerly geocities.com/pisaywv) and eureka.rexdelsar.com (formerly geocities.com/upveureka). These two websites were among my first that I made in high school and college respectively. Interestingly, I also consider them to be my best sites ever. Back then I still had lots of time to be creative. I will talk more exhaustively about these two sites in another time.

Meanwhile, if you still have a website hosted in Geocities, you better move them elsewhere NOW.

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Since I got my Globe Tattoo (aka Visibility) kit, I’ve been frustrated over its automatic compression of images in every website I visit. I’m quite particular with photos and their quality so it was a major problem and I thought I was stuck with it as long as I use my Globe Tattoo unit.

It was only lately when I noticed something everytime I hover on a photo. A message appears “please wait 1 second(s) for an uncompressed image, or press Ctrl+F5 for original quality page”.

I tried it and it worked! All along I’ve been suffering from seeing blurry images everywhere and it’s only now that learned there’s an easy way out of it!

So if you want to see the original uncompressed image of a single photo, just hover your cursor over it for a while and it will reload automatically. If you want to see the all the photos in the entire page uncompressed, just hit Ctrl+F5 (check below for non-Firefox users).

See the difference in these crops from my Philippine Money blog. If you’re using Globe wireless broadband, make sure to first press Ctrl+F5 or you might now see the difference!

Compressed

Uncompressed after hovering mouse on image for a while

Of course Globe is automatically compressing the photos we download in in its servers in order to give us a faster browsing experience. Now that we know of a way to opt for uncompressed images, it shouldn’t be too bad a strategy.

If you’re not using Mozilla Firefox, you might need a different key combination to opt for the original uncompressed images. I found these from LJDiaz.com.

• Shift + F5 – Internet Explorer users
• Ctrl + F5 – Mozilla Firefox users
• Ctrl + R – Opera Users

Also, don’t forget to clear your cache!

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just got myself the Globe “Tattoo” wireless prepaid broadband kit. I finally convinced myself to shed out P1,895 after I realized I will save myself much trouble by just buying it. Smart only has GPRS signal itan my area so I need to give up on buying the Smart Bro Plug It.

The Globe Tatoo prepaid kit

The kit comes with the Huawei HSDPA USB stick, a Globe SIM card, a USB cord (if you need to hang the stick outside your window?), and a generic manual for the USB stick. Read the rest of this entry »

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Since last night, I’ve been desperately trying to fix some issues with the layout of this blog without any success. Now I realize the problem is with my internet service provider.

I’ve been trying to fix the wrongly-displaying captions of the MistyLook theme by implementing corrections provided in the support forum. When I update the CSS code in the Wordpress Theme Editor, it show that it has been modified, but when I view the blog itself, nothing seems to change! Read the rest of this entry »

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