This afternoon, I was looking for polo for my formal wear collection. I’m already preparing for the real world even if it’s 8-9 months before graduation. So, I went to SM Makati to look for a decent polo brand after buying a Fribella umbrella (it was raining heavily that afternoon). I was amazed because there is a wide range of formal wear collection in 2nd floor, most of them tagged with a decent price as well. Most polos are not dirt cheap anyway.
Then after window shopping, I went home straight to my computer, browsed forums and read news, etc. It was very timely that I saw a topic about dressing properly in IT and it links to a news article by Otto Stern regarding geek wearing real clothes. His article is very frank and straight-forward. If you’re in the IT industry, you can relate to his article. To read the full article, click the link below.
Link: CEOs should follow NBA and make geeks wear real clothes
Good news! Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is going to be released on Tuesday, November 1. I’m going to replace my Firefox 1.0.7 install with this upcoming RC1 because I think it would be stable enough. The best thing about Firefox 1.5 is incremental updates so when the final version comes out, I won’t have to do another full installation. 
Interesting… I actually made this post using Flock and it appears to work using the metaweblog API. I just wonder how do you insert pictures here… (drag and drop?)
edit: The codes are quite messed up when editing the original Flock post… I also removed the Technorati links. 
I’ll leave it as a mod, not a feature in my blog post.
I’m supposed to be in a meeting tomorrow but I was wait-listed because…. or rather booted out of the listing because…
… we can not confirm your attendance as we are currently accommodating IT Professionals and Microsoft Customers only. Should space be made available prior to the event, we will inform you and send you a separate letter.
We do apologize for this; however our limited seating capacity prompts us to give priority to specific audiences first.
We’ll I’m disappointed because I’m a Microsoft customer as well, considering that I bought my laptop with a licensed Windows XP… and I am an MSDN Connection bronze member now after going to Dev Days 2005 yesterday. I also think that students shouldn’t be left out in this kind of events because it’s about “introduction” to .NET anyway; IT professionals should have an idea what it is already. Besides, my main purpose is to invite Mr. Oliveros to be our guest speaker, as Mr. Tan recommended. Mr. Oliveros is currently an Associate Academic Developer Evangelist, Developer and Platform Group of Microsoft Philippines.
The priority for IT professionals is really lame…
I’m browsing http://msforums.ph/forums/ at the moment and I can recognize some of the active members there. After Dev Days 2005, I realized that there’s really a big market for the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. I’m sure that having those skills before or after I graduate will make me more competitive in the industry.
I really like the new VS.NET 2005… developers virtually can code less and concentrate more on the functionality and program design. The dubbed “Avalon” and “Indigo” are also promising.
What I didn’t like on Dev Days 2005 is that MS Philippines underestimated the attendance this year, and so there are shortage of seats. During breaks and moving in between rooms, it seemed very disorganize down on the hallway. Apparently, even the online registration for MSDN Connect is not fast / many enough to accomodate the volume of registrants.
Mr. Stanley Tan was there. His demos and speeches on stage are among the best. Some speakers are ok, but he’s outstanding. Overall, the event is very satisfactory. I’ve got freebies and my first-time experience seeing the new technologies is just amazing.
I got my pass already got to sleep now and wake up early…
I have been using iTunes since version 5, and now it’s in version 6. Last Friday, Apple released a small update (v6.0.1) which amuse me so much. Apple’s release cycle is becoming very short. We know it’s better but it annoys me to download about 32 mb files every release. I really hope there’s an incremental update for iTunes for those small security and stability updates.