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Every now and then I get this new message on my Friendster’s Inbox from some gorgeous looking chic about free cellphones. It’s kinda weird and definitely it’s a spam so I after trying one of the links I get forwarded to a friendster profile page of someone and then to another website that just loops between 1st.php and 2nd.php which are both blank pages (e.g. http://example.com/1st.php and http://example.com/2nd.php). I’m not sure if this spreads any virus, spyware or any malicious software but out of curiosity and since I am using a Mac which is less prone to such things, I decided to try the links. As expected, it’s just plain non-sense.

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Just last week, an ex-colleague and a dear friend passed away. I’m still not sure what exactly took the life of this 26 year old woman, but most people close to her informed me that it’s some sort of heart illness. I haven’t seen her for quite some time now, but during those times we got to chat online, she already mentioned heart palpitations she’s experiencing which for her doesn’t really seem to be serious at that time. She just thought that she just might be tired or stressed or something like that. I even advised her to take a break or loosen up a bit which I really thought would help, but I really don’t know if she heed my advice. (more…)

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I had been a long time GoDaddy customer and if my memory serves me right I had been with them for more or less 6 years already. It was actually the first company to whom I had registered my first domain and learned about domain registration and management. Generally speaking, I was a happy customer and never did I experience major problems with them. Then again, due to a lot of changes they had done with their services or domain offerings, I just felt that they are becoming inappropriate for my needs and budget. So I decided to just move on and look for another registrar.

Here are a couple of reasons why I decided to move away from GoDaddy:

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Without much to do tonight, I decided to change my blog’s theme since it has already been years since I last did it. So I did some Googling around for free Wordpress themes, and stumbled upon this very simple but elegant theme named Dark Zen.

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It’s  a known fact to every Java developer that not being careful on making use of threads on your application would most probably make it your greatest foe instead of making things better for you. Honestly speaking, I tried to stay away with threads as much as I could. Not because, I am not efficient with it but rather, I am just playing safe when it comes to the problems it might pose on my application, especially in terms of memory leaks.

Sad to say, when you are working with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based application, it’s less likely that you won’t be using threads. This is due to the reason, that there are a lot of methods that would be best called in the background rather than having the user wait for its completion and make your application hang during this time. One good example would be data population on JTables wherein it won’t really look nice for the user to wait until 500,000 rows of data are retrieved and displayed. Wouldn’t it be nice if things would happen in the background and your application’s UI would still be responsive during this time? (more…)

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I had been so busy with a lot of things lately, so time was really scarce for me to even have a single post this month (..until now). There has been a lot of tasks I had to work on and short deadlines to cope up with. I even had to work on weekends just to make ends meet. Not that I am complaining, but it’s more of a sharing of what has been happening. Besides, the work I had done is not something that’s too much for me anyway. But the most important thing I guess is being busy nowadays is a good thing considering the worldwide economic crisis everyone is dealing with. A lot of people had already lost their jobs, so instead of complaining about my work load, I guess it’s just right for me to thank God that I am busy with work.  (more…)

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