November 21st, 2009
things nobody cares about...
Posted by roy at 12:22 PM on November 21, 2009 in Finances.
... but I find interesting. I've been watching the AGU-CF-TRA love triangle and things are starting to heat up.
AGU, which is trying to take over CF, seems to be gaining success with their bid, with 62% of shares voting for the takeover. Meanwhile, yesterday, CF got three of its nominees to the TRA board (ousting the chairman) - a pretty good indication of what TRA shareholders want.
So TRA shareholders want to be bought out by CF (while the TRA board of directors does not), while CF shareholders want to be bought out by AGU (while the CF board of directors does not).
Interesting. (I pretty much exited my long position from before, leaving just a small amount in place to catch any additional upside - I'll initiative a long in another one of the players next week)
November 19th, 2009
people love the cloud
Posted by roy at 11:46 PM on November 19, 2009 in MindTouch.
Here's some coverage on MindTouch Cloud:
Good stuff. I can't believe it's Thanksgiving next weekend! Time flies...
project: launched
Posted by roy at 03:00 AM on November 19, 2009 in MindTouch.
MindTouch Cloud finally launched. It's the project that's responsible for my first all-nighter in eons. It's also why I worked off-site for close to a week. It's launched, but unfortunately that's only the beginning.
I can tell that I'm not as green anymore: the joy of launching this site lasted about 10 seconds before I started compiling the work items for the next version. This project is continuous. It's tough to think that all the work I put into this site will mostly be thrown away over the coming few weeks, but I'm used to it now. Evolve, baby, evolve! I've gotten the ball rolling, now let's hand it off to people so they can make it more excellent!
I was going to write a bit more, but now I'm tired. So this will have to be a placeholder entry.
November 18th, 2009
Lost
Posted by miniangel at 11:20 PM on November 18, 2009.
I don't want to talk about this on FB because I don't need the whole world to know.
I am in need of a Metal Health day. And if one isn't familar with what that is, it's essentially a 1 day vacation, away from all the things that are stressing you out.
My school, work, family and personal life is beyond my control at the moment. But I just need to get through the next three weeks and this semester will end and hopefully I can work at resolving other things.
Two things are really bugging me at the moment. One is at work. I took measures today to hopefully resolve some of the pressure that have been handed to me because I am one of the oldest people in my department and the one with logic, reason, and objective oh and professionalism. So it has been put on my shoulder to deal with something that has gotten out of hand. But it is regarding a certain person. Because I am not HR personel nor upper management I am not allowed to deal with it on my own otherise it'd get much messier if I don't handle it properly. Instead I had to properly present the issue to upper management. I could literally get this person fired/canned whatever you wish to refer to it as. But I am not that malicious so I still held a lot of things back. If I say certain things, but the reprucssions may affect more than one person.
The other is the realization that I didn't make any impact on someone I thought I had brought change to. Or at least I feel like I am left with that impression ... It's no one's fault but my own. I just wish I had never been so foolish. I am contemplating on whether or not I regret caring about that person. It scares me that I even think that way. But I think I'm just mad and I want someone to lash out at.
At this point in time I just want to survive this semester and hope that I can recover my emotional and mental well being come Winter break. Music seems to be the only thing keeping me from the brink of insanity.
the price of gold, in gold
Posted by roy at 03:56 AM on November 18, 2009 in Finances.
If you're like me, you're getting tired of hearing about the run-up in gold prices (and the dollar taking a beating as well). Take comfort in the stability (and never-changing-ness) this graph (courtesy of pk):
The Price of Gold (denominated in gold):
this is your server on slashdot
Posted by roy at 01:06 AM on November 18, 2009 in Ramblings.
NeoPages.net, one of my old projects, was a community/free hosting site (I was one of the earliest sites to promote the "participate in the forums to get free hosting" concept). I created it back during the Geocities/Xoom days before (a) private hosting was pricey and (b) the free hosting sites SUCKED. I was fortunate enough to be able to pay for hosting, but I knew others (who were just as talented as I was) couldn't afford it (or they were overseas and couldn't use a CC to buy hosting).
Anyways, I love personal home pages that take me back to those days - you don't see too many of them lately (they're all WordPress/Drupal sites).
I still host one of these sites, Skytopia.com, on the same server as Tabulas. A recent article posted on that site recently got picked up by Digg and Slashdot: Mandelbulb, the 3-D Mandelbrot. The math and details are a little over my head, but the thing has some pretty awesome 3-D models. Check it out.
So how does this relate back to me? This is your server's bandwidth usage when the site gets passed to Digg/Slashdot/etc:
I'm surprised my server survived the Slashdotting - I had to boost some Apache config values (Helloooo MaxClients), but it (mostly) stayed up without problems (it was a bit sluggish for a while, though).
I remember when I used to think I was hot shit cause my server would transfer more than 500GB a month. Now I'm at risk of breaking the 2 terabyte limit.
I wonder when I'll think 2TB is nothing.
Posted by roy at 12:27 AM on November 18, 2009 in Personal.
Why is it that I can have so much confidence in one aspect of my life, but so little in the other? It's like I'm two completely different people. I don't understand it.
November 16th, 2009
Dry Love
Posted by zette at 05:46 PM on November 16, 2009 in ADZoo, Fetish, Ai-Love-Amor.
It's hard to write again. It's been so long and so much BS has happened that I could barely make myself type this. But I realized this is a way of letting it go so here it goes. I'll just break it down in a list. I don't want to write lengthily on something that is basically crap.
1. My friends, Batch 2009, passed the CPA Board Exams last October. The news came out just as our Final Exams Week started. I am so happy for them. I can't think of a group of people who deserve this achievement more that they do. Congratulations, guys!
2. I like Lester. I ignore Francine.
3. There has been a lot of drama this first week of November but the bottomline is: I'm out of the Accountancy program. It stings but it's also a liberating experience for me. 
4. I passed Auditing 320!!! Why #3 then?! Go figure. HAHA
5. It's unbelievable how delusional and manipulative some people can be. And they're grown ups for crying out loud.
6. I love watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians. It's quite refreshing to see a family that's a little less crazy than mine. HAHAHA
7. I just finished reading WATCHMEN. I bought a copy of the graphic novel when I was in Cebu. I love the North Wing! :p
8. I just read this e-mail from Facebook. WTH?!?!
9. I don't think I'll be able to write as often as I did a year ago. It's been two months since I last posted something here. I'll update Twitter as often as I could though. I'll get a new SIM for it.
Currently reading: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room
Currently feeling: lethargic
