Digital Nocturne

This section is meant for my personal reviews. I hope you give feedbacks to what I write. If I need to be correct just post your comments… but you don’t need to argue much. I always try to be impartial as much as I can so everyone will be happy.

I’m posting this song by South Border because I really like it… I find the chorus alluring. My gf says it’s lame… of course she’s bias. Apparently this song is the theme song of Mulawin, a fantasy-novel in GMA 7 so she really didn’t like the song as well. I don’t mind that anyway.

This song is melodic. I find the blending of the rhythm very moving and the clanking beats add some tribal seasoning to this song. When it hits the chorus, the falcetto voice of the lead singer reminds me of the typical hit-maker song of South Border like Kahit Kailan.

Maybe my gf never realize that this song impressed me because it somehow expressed what I felt when I first met her. That particular feeling is so intense that I feel so special yet afraid to confess because we’re like heaven and earth apart. .:sigh:. Thank God I didn’t have to kneel down before her.

Here’s the lyrics… don’t ask for the MP3, I won’t provide one. You can download it in your favorite P2p whenere you want but I won’t endorse it anyway. Buy the single if you like it.

Ikaw Nga
South Border

Ooohh
Heto na naman
Nag-iisip, minsa’y nagtataka
Nasa ‘kin nang lahat bakit nangungulila?

Wooohh

At nang makita ka, ibang sigla aking nadarama
Pag-ibig nga ba ito, ako’y nangangamba

Woooh

Nais kong ipagtapat sa ‘yo
Sana’y dinggin mo ang hiling ng pusong ito
Kahit na tayo’y magkaibang mundo

Ikaw nga ang siyang hanap-hanap
Kay tagal ako’y nangarap
Lumuluhod, nakikiusap ako ay mahalin mo sinta
Ikaw nga ang siyang magbabago sa akin
Sa aking buhay

Handang iwanan ang lahat upang makapiling ka sinta
Nang makilala ka ibang saya aking nadarama
Alam kong pag-ibig ito, anong ligaya
Nais kong ipagtapat sa ‘yo
Sana’y pagbigyan, dinggin ang puso kong ito
Kahit na tayo’y magkaibang mundo

Woooh

Ikaw nga ang siyang hanap-hanap
Kay tagal ako’y nangarap
Lumuluhod, nakikiusap
ako ay mahalin mo sinta

Ikaw nga ang siyang magbabago sa akin
Sa aking buhay (sa aking buhay)
Handang iwanan ang lahat para lang sa ‘yo sinta
upang makapiling ka sinta

Wooh

I’m trying to get a Merchant Account to conveniently process all my Credit Card purchases on the internet. As a newbie I don’t have any idea how to get one. I’ve tried Paypal but it’s unavailable in the Philippines. Oh my…. I don’t know if it’s good to use other Credit Card Gateways. Most of them are rather more expensive compared to Paypal. I’ve tried 2Checkout and Ikobo. I’m seeking help through community forums to choose the best one I can get. If I remain unconvinced, then I think I need to toss the coin and choose which one would be more practical.

Duh!

I was locked out of my own blog for more than a week! What a shame! I forgot my password so I have to dig the tables of database just to look up the username and password I used in this blog. Oh well.. now I learned my lesson.

The whole week wasn’t that fun. First of all, my quizzes aren’t that great… I just don’t feel like I am doing my best right now.

Things are getting complicated. I have two pending projects and these projects need careful planning and management. These projects are both web deployment project. The first one involves e-business. The second project involved open-source technology. Right now I’m focusing my attention on the first project because that’s going to be the backbone of the second project.

Although starting a business may sound easy it’s really harder than initially ad imagined. Making e-commerce works is not as easy as constructing a webpage. It’s more that than, way far from what most people think (or rather, what I thought). You need to be business-literate so I’m sort of literating myself right now. I’m learning as I go forward.

Based on my readings and researches, there are so many things you need to complete before you can setup a business. To make everything legal you need to register your it to Department of Trade and Industries (DTI). Registration requires some legal papers and that includes the Article of Incorporation if it’s a corporation. For our situation, since we are going to be have more than 10 people we might set our structure as non-stock corporation. We are going to get a lawyer to iron out this problem. Once the Article of Incorporation is duly signed we need to verify it in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), yet another processing fee…. and so on.

As far as the cost of getting started is concerned, we needed to spend a humble amount of start-up money. Filing fee of Articles of Incorporation is worth P210, filing of By-laws – P210, Membership Book – P320 & Stamping – P50. The registration of business name for corporations under Bureau of Trade Regulation and consumer Protection (BTRCP) is worth P500 and additional P15 Documentary stamp for each application. And that’s not finished… I need to secure my Tax Identification Number (TIN) for income tax, too. ‘Doh! I’ll be taxed!  I don’t even know how taxation works so I need to know how! I seriously need an accountant, too. Thanks God, I have a good network of contacts who are ready to help.

That’s only the beginning… after all I need to design the front-end and back-end of the websites. This will be kept secret for now. The front-end would be easy. The back-end is more complicated. Designing dynamic website has never been a piece of cake anyway. You need to put in some effort. I need to integrate ATM/Credit Card gateways and provide a secured shopping storefront. It’s all spinning in my head. Finding a decent Credit Card gateway is already a big challenge since very few 3rd Party gateways offer their service in the Philippines. One perfect example is Paypal. I am so disappointed that their service is not available here in the Philippines. Maybe I have to contact some of my friends in the US so that we can take advantage of Paypal’s servive; otherwise, I will get 2Checkout since it’s the most convenient alternative.

We need to simplify things because the way that I see it now, they are getting complicated.

For now, I’m going to sleep… zzz.

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Haha… a phletora of smilies there… These smilies are the default smilies included in Phpbb. This 15 x 15 pixels smilies pack is one of the most aesthetic mini emoticons you can find in the web.

Since I used Invision Power Board I left these smilies in my storage folder. I miss this smilies. Luckily these smilies are the default smilies included in Wordpress package.

IPB uses the nomicon smilies made by Nominell (Oscar Gruno). Although I like the IPB smilies I have no permission to use it outside IPB forums so at this moment I’m still using the default smilies. Perhaps I’ll use these smilies permanently because the Phpbb smilies are smaller in size; thus, I find them more appropriate to use in my journal.

Updated 2010-01-02T01:36:41+00:00
As of now most of the original smilies are not working anymore and I might be replacing them soon, too. I was fond of these smilies but I realized that I need to minimize their use so that my posts won’t be as cheesy and as informal as they were before.

I’ve been using this incredible forum software since 2002. From it’s early development stage I’ve seen Invision Forum Board (used to be IBF, now IPB) version 1.0, then 1.1, tranform into a dependable and manageable forum script. Back then I’m only aware of forum softwares like Vbulletin, PhpBB, IkonBoard and the likes. I learned how to hack IPB and create small code modifications. At that point I wanted to learn PHP to create my own complex mods but until now I have not done that. LOL.

When IPB released version 1.2 I decided to use it in my high school online community forums. Now at version 1.3 I still use IPB to run Munsci.net forums.

Version 2.0 is currenly in pre-release version 2 with a new twist in licensing… the user must acquire a license for permanent use. I guess it’s only true that “what you get is what you pay for” but then — the best things in life are free! Isn’t it?

Invision Power Board is a great software and I also think that it is just fair for Invision Power Service to change its terms of service to be more stable and competitive. I just wish I have the fortune to buy a license.

For the past few days I’ve been active in IPB forum spotting bugs and making suggestions. It’s my pleasure to participate in bug-hunting to make IPB better. More power to IPB developer, Matt.

I want to plug my favorite browser…. Mozilla Firefox!

I hated Internet Explorer after using this browser… I realized that Microsoft is so sluggish in developing IE that I switched to a browser that defines what a true web browser should be.

Version 1.0 is just around the corner. Yey!