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	<title>Chuck&#039;s Musings &#187; General</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a while</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2010/02/its-been-a-while/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm doing my part in helping the economy, haha!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My last entry is dated January 12, 2010&#8230; hah! I&#8217;ve been too busy with work to write about anything in a while.</p>
<p>Many of my more recent entries were about my computer/electronics cravings. I mentioned something about going <a href="http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/10/the-itch-part-2/">socket AM3</a> but I instead ended up with a LGA1156 Core i5 setup. I also changed a lot of my computer&#8217;s components amongst other things, got a <a href="http://worldwide.hyundai.com/web/Showroom/tucson_focus.html">new car</a>, bought a Nintendo Wii console. Finally, I&#8217;m planning to get myself an SLR next month (a Nikon D90).</p>
<p>Now that I&#8217;m on the topic of &#8220;new stuff&#8221; and &#8220;work&#8221;, I forgot to mention here that I&#8217;m now working for <a href="http://www.becr8v.com">cr8v Web Solutions</a> still as a PHP Web Developer. I still have the same home-based work arrangement as I did with Zallas; we also have the same work shift, migration to the new company was pretty painless as far as I am concerned.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty much trying to enjoy the fruits of my labor while I still can, because I won&#8217;t be able to do these stuff once I&#8217;ve decided to settle down&#8230;</p>
<p>I hope my D90 purchase would be the last of this recent string of purchases, haha, I really need to start saving for real.</p>
<p>Now that I mention it, I really should set up a photo gallery section soon to make use of all this space.</p>
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		<title>The Itch &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/10/the-itch-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ditching my dual core to go for a quad-core.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m looking into selling my current CPU-Mobo-Ram trio and build myself an AM3 rig. Why AM3 and not Core i7? Well, it&#8217;s kinda hard to source the parts locally, and if they are available, they&#8217;re expensive despite making compromises to the setup. I&#8217;m still planning on keeping my BFG 8800GT, and besides, the onboard Radeon HD4200 on the 785G motherboard would make a great backup video when I do intend to upgrade my videocard as well.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve decided to go with the following setup &#8211; an AMD Phenom II X4 965 cpu, an AM3 motherboard based on the AMD 785G / SB710 chipset, and 2 sticks of 2GB DDR3 memory.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still trying to decide whether I should skip the Phenom 955 and go directly to 965. It&#8217;s only a 200MHz difference with the 965 costing P1,250 more (about $26).</p>
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		<title>The itch</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/10/the-itch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Should I scratch it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a while since my last post&#8230; almost a month actually. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve either been too busy with work, or enjoying work too much that I kinda neglected doing my regular stuff here for a while&#8230;</p>
<p>With that said, I&#8217;ve been working too much and haven&#8217;t had the chance to enjoy my salary yet&#8230; well, one of the first things that came to mind was getting a camcorder (which, actually is already happening, haha!), secondly, my computer upgrade itch.</p>
<p>Damnit, I&#8217;m eyeing the Samsung T260HD LCD monitor, and I&#8217;ve also been itching to upgrade my processor, motherboard and RAM.</p>
<p>Christmas is approaching, all in due time I guess.</p>
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		<title>More minor website updates</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/09/more-minor-website-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[transparent]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've been to the front page recently, you'll know what I'm talking about!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve visited the front page recently, you&#8217;d have probably noticed the mailbox on the far right side of the lawn. This mailbox will be linked to a contact form (which I haven&#8217;t started coding in yet, haha!).</p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;ve made slight modifications to the top navigation bar. The menus are now semi-transparent. I&#8217;ve yet to decide if I&#8217;ll keep it that way or revert to the old solid white and gray menus.</p>
<p>Aside from that, I am hoping to be able to find the time to work on the other planned features of my website. Please keep coming back for updates.</p>
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		<title>We are doing Mashups</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/09/we-are-doing-mashups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now we're putting it all together.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I&#8217;m way ahead on my tasks schedule, I&#8217;ve been tasked to work on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)">mashups</a> of our current modules.</p>
<p>This is going to be yet another fun experience for me! <img src='http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;m currently in the planning stage of it, but I&#8217;d have to come up with a working prototype of the API tomorrow. I should be able to think of something as I sleep over it today so it won&#8217;t be a problem. I&#8217;ve always been able to get work done in my sleep anyway.</p>
<p><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1995305module9618939photo_1211323766mashup-ecosystem.jpg" alt="The Mashup<br />
Ecosystem" /></p>
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		<title>TheDirtLab logo</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/08/thedirtlab-logo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revised logo for the "TheDirtLab" testing area theme.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought I put enough effort and attention to the main website&#8217;s design so far, so I figured I start working on the actual testing area&#8217;s theme. So here&#8217;s my second revision of the &#8220;laboratory&#8221; theme&#8217;s logo:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.chuckcerrillo.com/images/dirt_big_lab.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>That&#8217;s Dirt the Lab in a lab-coat, presumably working in a lab, but I still have to draw in the lab, lol!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s 1:38pm (12:38am CDT) so I really should get to bed now, lest I risk not waking up in time for today&#8217;s work shift.</p>
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		<title>Yet another minor update</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/08/yet-another-minor-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Added section icons and blog update widget.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was rearranging some stuff earlier today, I didn&#8217;t like how my alternate design turned out (the one with semitransparent content blocks partially overlapping with the top portion of layout). So I reverted to the original layout I made. I still have to work on the content area&#8217;s layout though.</p>
<p>Aside from that, I added two circular icons representing the major areas of the website. The first one being the <a href="http://www.chuckcerrillo.com">home page </a>and the second being this <a href="http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com">blog&#8217;s home page</a>.</p>
<p>Also like previously mentioned, I coded in a little widget that grabs the ten most recent blog entries and displays their title and excerpt on the home page.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still thinking what else to place into the home page though.</p>
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		<title>So much space, so little time!</title>
		<link>http://blog.chuckcerrillo.com/2009/08/so-much-space-so-little-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Space space space and more space!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The hosting package I bought includes 10GB space and 300GB monthly bandwidth. 10GB! I don&#8217;t think I could use it up by myself, lol. My dedicated partition for my local web-server on my computer is 10GB and after 6 years, I only have 3GB of website, PHP scripts and pictures in it!</p>
<p>Maybe if I had a camcorder, I could fill this space faster, hahaha! Hey, with your own 10GB space and 300GB bandwidth, why settle with low quality video hosts like Youtube, right?</p>
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