I went to JavaOne a few months ago. It was a pretty neat experience and I learnt a lot of cool things. One of the things Sun was touting was the JavaFX family of technologies. It allows you to create RIA (Rich Internet Applications) using JavaFX Script, a domain-specific language built on top of Java….
WTF is up with the 2009 Acura TL?
I love my 2007 Acura TL. In my opinion, it’s the perfect mix of luxury and sportiness for the price. I love the way the engine growls when I step on the gas, and I love the way the body looks. For this reason, I was pretty excited to see what Honda would come up…
Sorry for the delay
I’m really sorry for not updating this journal for… well, seems like forever. I figured I’d start writing regularly but that turned out to not be the case. A few things got in my way. Ever since I started working at Infusionsoft, I’ve had less of a desire to come back home and sit at…
WLC and WTF
I’m going out of town for two weeks for WLC (Warrior Leader Course). It’s a course I’ve had to take after I got promoted to Sergeant while I was in Iraq. I never had a chance to go to it because there was a lot of confusion with the standing-down of the old artillery unit…
My new laptop
I recently bought myself a new laptop – the Dell XPS M1530. I was originally considering a Macbook, but that was a little too pricey for me. I started to fancy OS X ever since I found out that it is basically FreeBSD at the core. Also, there is the eye-candy. Other than the price-tag,…
A lot of stuff
I didn’t update this site for a while because I had a lot of stuff going on. A lot happened towards the end of last year. My house was destroyed, and then it was rebuilt. While that was going on, I also lost my job when Intel decided to “redeploy” my entire group. I was…
Veterans Day
Yesterday was Veterans Day, so I made a video. It’s basically a montage with the Smallville theme in the background. You can view it here and download it here.
My toilet exploded and my house was destroyed
You all might be wondering what the hell happened to this site for three months… well, the title says it all. Allow me to explain. I drove to Anaheim, CA on the evening of the 2nd of August. This was a Thursday. I had an appointment with the US Passport Office in Los Angeles to…
Drop-shadows with CSS and Javascript
You have probably seen websites that have images with drop-shadows. It gives the image a three-dimensional floating effect. Usually the images are given drop-shadows with an image editing software like Photoshop. In IE, a drop-shadow is easy to achieve using the DropShadow filter. Unfortunately, this method is not standards compliant and only works on Internet…
Getting the Netgear WN311T to work on PC-BSD/FreeBSD
Recently, I decided to try out PC-BSD. It’s essentially FreeBSD with a desktop (KDE) and various other goodies. I’ll talk about my experience with PC-BSD in another post. This one is about setting up the Netgear WN311T RangeMax NEXT Wireless Adapter to work with PC-BSD. I had heard that setting up wireless to work with…