Echo Binary

From my past blog entries, I don’t remember that I’ve hinted or revealed that I’m actually a scholar of Procter & Gamble Philippines. Oh well… now you know.

My first year [2003] experience about this annual summer outing and learning event was memorable and highly educational. It was held in Fontana. It’s about 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; however, it’s not the highlights of my stay there…. [everything else is history]… and that’s the reason why I promised to myself not to get intoxicated again. I missed last year’s [2004] seminar because of my schedule (I was enrolled in a community welfare service). Now, on my third year I’m more anxious on what’s going to happen there. >_<

Anyway, this year’s theme is “Personal Effectiveness and Personal Leadership: Key Ingredients to make College Life Worthwhile!” It will be held on April 1 - 3, 2005 at Manila Peninsula Hotel. This is a resident-type training so we should stay in the hotel during the entire event.

Here’s the overview of the planned events:

On April 1, (Friday) we should be at Garcia Villa / Balagtas for registration, and then there will be an opening remarks / introduction / agenda review. After that, we will eat lunch! Then, we will check-in to our respective rooms. There will be a roll call about house rules after. Then Teambuilding will proceed after. Group dinner will be served and a group work will follow. (hmmm… how come there’s no “sleep time” in the plan??)

On April 2, (Saturday) we are expected to be up by 7:00… Then finish breakfast by 8:00am. Personal Leadership and Career Preparation training will commence by 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. There will be lunch break though From 5:00am to 7:00 pm we are free to do whatever we want (I’ll probably roam the rest of the hotel for pictures and stuffs!) and group dinner will be served.

On April 3, (Sunday) same routine in the morning but the training will finish by 12 noon. We will have a lunch break then we will check-out. After that, there’s a so-called “Personal Commitment Session” which I’m really clueless about. Then we are expected to wrap-up by 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. By 6:00 pm I’ll be home to continue whatever I left hanging in mid-air.

My friends and I formed a team and this team shall remain nameless. We have started several projects and some of these projects are still on-going. Suddenly, most of them gone missing.

I don’t know what’s wrong with them. I’m left thinking about their inactivity in the internet. Hmmm… I really don’t know if they are in the province, playing games all day long, taking a week-long break or they are just slacking off. Wala man lang notice kung saan sila lupalop ng mundo napadpad. I think that for formality, at least, they should have sent a short private message to tell me or their team leader their whereabouts for the rest of the holidays.

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No, it’s not the song… this post is about GM Mickey.

For starters, I play Rose Online as a sub-pilot for my brother’s avatar/character. We are lucky to see a GM this morning and we stalked her like hell. The server was always full and we were disconnected several times. Logging in was very difficult. Even worse, the server was very laggy because too many players crowd together. But it was alright. We’ve seen very strong mobs that GM Mickey summoned while many players crowd beside her. I was able to take a clear screenshot of her avatar. Take a look.

Finally… Mambo’s homepage became more friendly and easier to navigate. I really like the new design. It somewhat resembles Mozilla’s rollovers and rounded-edge CSS design. It’s also a good idea that the segregated the different sections of Mamboserver into 5 different sections namely, www.mamboserver.com, news.mamboserver.com, forum.mamboserver.com, projects.mamboserver.com and help.mamboserver.com. The only sub-site that wasn’t changed aesthetically was projects.mamboserver.com (mamboforge.net)

Kudos to Mambo web design team!

Yes, the problem continued, but this time it was more modest. It didn’t have any impact to our server because the support system script simply sent out warning inside the support system admin panel. About 72 warnings appeared telling me that the message wasn’t delivered because the user’s email box was full. Now I learned why setting inbox quota is VERY important. It’s better to have my inbox full than having our server hard drive choke!