My Stress

Oh, Stress! 

You come every time 

So fresh! 

You swiftly become mine 

 

Each day you remind me 

The sweetness that glory can be 

By the end of the day 

You hinder the rest, 

I wanna be 

Let me love you 

Please work for me 

Though I hate you 

Please don't ruin me. 

You give these many gifts 

Silver hair, Wrinkles Worries and enemies 

In as much, as is my faith 

You come preparing me 

Be the best among my friends 

 Go on, I won't let your way 

By how much you love me 

You come and stay everyday 

Challenging me each and every way 

 You are the scorching sunlight 

Without you, I feel no might 

But if you lay not much I can do 

and thank you very much

... and the election's almost over

Ugh! the trouble! the hazzle!... If you put the hype in a graph, statistics' normal curve almost does not apply. Pre-election time, it's way too long a time that the hype(equals preparation and campaign) is so intense. So intense that bans for guns and others are so commonly ignored and violated, with so little a number of apprehended and served justice. So intense that media -- paper, tv, radio, and the Internet -- is so undated with issues and concerns over and beyond election. Both incumbent and aspiring politicians have promises and so-called platforms they wish to bring forth to the governed public. So many that when elected, almost the same number wave through death and silence. And then, it gets used again on their next run for the same and so-much-acclaimed incomplete implementation of the plans. This next couple of days will be the height of the hype -- more noise and acts of baboons. And just before the days ends on May 13, the hype curve will dive... The next two days, it just plainly die... A few weeks come and we all forgot about the platforms and promises they uttered during the campaign --- and seemingly the candidate who were "asking" to be elected succumbed to amnesia and on to their personal goals. There are those that try to push for the suspension and even the stoppage of the election. There are those who just kill their opponents so there will be no sense of having the election. There are those who don't trust in the process of the election. There are those who don't trust the means and ways(ballot, paper, pen, ink, machines and people) of the election. There are those who don't even trust the results of the election. Well, here we are, afloat to the tide of how our election proceeds and done. At least, for the life of me, I see some changes: 1) Politicians no longer promise the very impossible. At least, they're now going practical and still seemingly odd promises. 2) Less use of pamphlets that clutter the streets and stickers on walls on every inch. They now hang tarpaulins. 3) People are more aware of whom they vote and the strategy to keeping the money the politician is giving and still vote for those they like ... actually, there are a lot more. BUT, let me end here while others can say more. I really hope the election's over so the elected politicians can really do more. (And so I hope)

...and we're moving on

I just have known that Pope Benedict XVI (PBX) just resigned from office. I was briefly shocked, and as I read today's headline: "Tagle Next Pope?", it gave me mixed emotions.

As reported, PBX is one of the very few that actually resigns. The rest, they are resigned until burial. Tsk!

As I briefly scan the pages of the paper, reading through the titles and leads of each article, the commentary of Cito Beltran captivated me. A few lines says:

"You don't have to die in office because the office could die along with you. The most important lesson that Pope Benedict teaches us by resigning as Pope is to know when to quit and to do it gracefully. Just because there has been a tradition of Popes dying or deteriorating is office, does not necessarily mean it's the wisest thing to do."

Cito explains and writes better of the idea, I am a fan.

That paragraph struck me with how we -- the younger generation -- the generation "in-waiting" -- who are trying to make changes in our own ways to improve lives and actually live a life.

Resistance to change is a hot topic for "seasoned" (the term they use when you're too old in a position) individuals -- any changes you want or wish should pass their set of criteria. There's nothing bad about it. In fact, it is a good practice to always seek the wisdom of experienced or experts. What is not good is, even if they understand the benefits, and actually know how it will turn out, they opt to ban or repress it.

It is in my personal nature to seek for improvements in ways possible and within the resources available, no matter how small it may look. But this outlook gives me the opportunity to do improvements of the changes that will happen -- not for personal gain but for the institution I am working with. It should be valued, at least hearing and proving what can happen. If my contributions are not seen as valuable, then, it only goes that I should not value myself as a contributor to my institution -- I must move on... resign...

Bloody Mechanic on BloodyMonday

An uprising is raging elsewhere. Loud shouting on a megaphone or on a supercharged speaker system keep ringing in my ears. Nuisance -- as in "noisy assailants" are just around the corner, deafening every passer-by or chanced riders that go by. I never had appreciated such moves. I am no fan. Protests are protests and will remain as they are unless suggestions or recommendations are voiced out rather than the worse-riddled situation that we are already in. To complain is an eye-opener to a seemingly naive and insensitive one. But, not until a solution is on the table, it will remain a complaint.

I highly regard those that are against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and brought their case before the court -- rather than ranting about it elsewhere. Lawyers, law-makers (and sometimes law-breakers) shall test by counter-testing the negative impression the law [that they wrote and agreed on] as seen by others. Arousing interest from all areas is good BUT, they have to be informed PROPERLY -- emphasis intended. Properly, we mean, within the bounds of the information that really exists in the provisions. Anything above and beyond that is misjudging the "freedom of speech".

Once again, the definition and implication of the word "freedom" is being challenged.

Hackers have unleashed their nuisances on some of the websites I'm keeping in store at a hosting server. Implicating the bill as part of their reasoning is plainly irresponsible. Making the point that the websites, and the server can be hacked is another thing all together. Anyhow, both sides of the coin has to be played in such a scenario -- to understand and take it a medicine that what they did is to send proof and taunt admins of their capabilities. How about shooting them in the head to make the point that a bullet travels so fast that it can break a skull? -- Anyone dare? (Oh, well... no pun intended. Just making a point).

Oh, mechanic operating on a heart bypass..

A peep at Windows 8

Just got a copy of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO from here.

Installed on my VMWare Workstation:
- 120 GB HDD - might use a few more gig later
- 1GB RAM (recommended based on my physical machine capacity)
- bridged network so I can update later

From boot, the teal-green color floods the screen and then the fish... that's something new from MS.. though, I've seen a lot of MS wallpaper and screensaver that feature fishes.

As it loads, white dots appear and goes in circle to mimic a loading sequence.

A few more seconds comes up the seemingly familiar Windows 7 setup screen. Keys are in and just waited until the Personalize teal-blue colored screen comes up.

Type in the computer name, press Next, towards the Settings menu. I'll go for an expressed settings.

Type in the username and towards the Finalizing your settings window.

The five white dots runs through a circle and it prepares to welcome me, about 3 minutes after powering it up. After a couple of minutes waiting, the tiles come up and I'm ready for a spin.

Solid colors are nice, Dragged and dropped to re-arrange the tiles. Went to the store and while I'm not yet connected, there goes the error/advice.

But hey, where and what would I to go back to the menu screen? Oh, there.. I moved the cursor by the top of the page, and as it turned to a hand, I push the button, dragged the page that, by then, it re-sized to a thumbnail. As I move around, move the tile to the bottom, and whew! I came back to the tile menu.

Now, I have to configure my network so I can connect to the Internet. But how? I started clicking some buttons/tiles that may lead me there.. First, my name on the top-right, nope.. none.. Next, the Fish... led me to a more familiar screen: The old Windows 7 desktop without the Start button at the bottom-left. Went through the net-icon on the status bar.

The network device seems not to be recognized, so I decided to restart after a while.  The restart took awhile before the tile-menu.

Checking on the VMWare Tools from the VM Menu, it says it's not available. I have to wait for the VMWare Workstation 8 update for any luck..

The curve is going through dugged up path

More updates, or desperation, may just be ahead on the horizon for Adobe's Flash Development... and probably the others that goes along with it -- Flex for one. The article published on The Register provides more gleam on this one.

A new developer on Flex, Flash, and Air.. may have to look shop somewhere else or this may turn out to be a good one. About a few weeks ago, I just got the latest Flex SDK (4.5.6), now, rumor says it's no longer marketable... But who knows? This can just be inviting more attention..

Hope's something worthwhile ride comes by.

Mobile development taking some curves

Adobe announced today that they're killing mobile Flash development.

This is received differently by different group of people - developers, reviewers, hackers, and even Jobs enthusiasts. Some believe and titled their articles as if Steve Jobs really killed Flash with his persistent denial of Flash's existence and importance in the horizon -- to put Flash out any near his turf. A few more comments that Flash may not just go away easily and it may take some time to actually "die". In between, some developers feel aweful about their expertise with Actionscript and Flash development -- real investment seemingly going to trashbins. The other side of the fence goes saying AS is basically ECMAScript and that switching to Javascript wouldn't hurt a lot.

Along all the sides of the differing point of views, there's this me. Just started out liking development with Flash Builder 4.5 with the ability to retain and enhance my PHP skills and adjust to AS and Flex. Actually, most of what I've done is just following video tutorials using the provided example projects. Whenever I tried changing the samples with the data I could use for my own application, something just goes awefully wrong.

Great time last week was spent working on a solution on why suddenly I can't start a project other than for Android OS - no iOS, no Blackberry -- I was stucked. Got it miraculously working after OS re-installation, which it really is not a factor in the solution equation. Got it working after forceful update to version 4.5.1.

A few days back, most hours after the whole day's work were spent trying to make the ZendFramework work for the PHP class I've developed from scratch just to come up with the basic structure for a DataService configuration I have tried during the first few days of the toturials. To this day, I really doesn't know to make it work.. Stuck.

Despite the seatback and the not-so-good timely news of Adobe's killing Flash, There's some light in the horizon: "package native apps with Adobe AIR for all major app stores". Build one, deploy to all.. That's pretty good!!!

The other side of the fence of developers, developing not from the native code, would mean performance penalties and sacrifices. These performance penalties may be quite OK with hardware devices overcoming the penalties (e.g.: a 1.2Ghz with a 800Mhz output). Might be OK or awefully bad.

A good time to expand the horizon and pool more options.