It’s that expensive!

Woah, I just got off the phone with the authorized Acer Service Provider people in the next city (see previous posts to read about my crappy Acer laptop problems). Since my warranty lapsed last month and my laptop has been in the Philippines for so long, I’ll be charged with any hardware replacements. If all goes well, there’ll be no hardware to replace and I’m gonna have to pay PHP50. If found necessary, the optical drive would cost me PHP5000+ and the thermowhatever -we’ll just call it “the fan” will go around PHP3000+.

Ugh. MONEY!!!

New Blogging Contest from SEO Blogging Tips

Hi! I’m here again for another quick post for yet another blogging contest from a great website >> SEO Blogging Tips

The contest is open for all bloggers. There will be two winners, both will be rewarded with a free domain name. The winners will be announced on August 22, 2009.

All you need to do to enter is:

• Write a blog post about this contest on your blog (Write at least 150-200 words)
• Add a screen shot of SEO Blogging Tips blog in your post.
• Follow @amolwagh on twitter and tweet these lines:
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• Leave a comment on the original contest post with your post link.

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I really wish I could win this one. I’ve been waiting for the day that a free domain name will come to me. Well, I can’t afford one.

-Jan Louis

It’s my first semi-free Sunday of the school year!!!

Contrary to how my last year in high school started, i finally had the chance to have my first semi-free Sunday! Why semi-free, you ask. Well, it’s because of the fact that I got to stay home all day!!! No heavy schoolwork, no camps, no seminars/trainings/meetings/etc., no events to cover, no nothing!

It’s semi-free ‘cos Nathan went over for like two hours to do our Physics project. I didn’t count it as schoolwork ‘cos his visit was fun and he helped me with JB’s Fly With Me chords. Thanks, Nathan! It’s also semi-free because I woke up before 8am (breaking the free Sunday rule) because of a sound produced by a budding monster that lives right behind our house. Right outside the window, directly to my head went “Yawmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeo!” I was so irritated! I went directly to the window and shouted until my sound box went boom! The monster stopped and the rest is history. The last factor contributing to the day’s status is because my brother would not stop crying whole day. Just before I began writing this, I caught him feeding on my iPod! I got furious and my mother went mad at me. It’s an IPOD! It’s not digestible, it’s not healthy, and most of all – it’s not CHEAP! So unless you could reward me with a better iPod (preferably a Touch), stop chewing my iPod!!!

Timugon.com hosts free domain giveaway contest

In light of Timugon.com’s first birthday, the author is holding a blog contest with a free domain name as the prize. To know more about it, head over at timugon.com Free Domain Name Giveaway Contest!

-Jan Louis

my fan went poof. there goes the optical drive.

Garsh. I guess I haven’t written about my laptop’s fan going incognito. Before we go on with that, let me give you a brief look-back at the things I’ve been through with my laptop this year.

• January ‘09- second major appearance at a school event: tabulating laptop for the OpenTech Fair ‘09.
• Late March ‘09- I just made my laptop’s desktop look like a Vista-Mac OSX crossover.
• Early April ‘09- A really disastrous facial deformation.

(the last two posts can be found in: The third trip; probably won’t be the last)

• Mid April ‘09- the internal fan stopped working- right in the MIDDLE of SUMMER!!! This means that heavy multitasking won’t be possible due to frequent crashing resulting from unbearable temperatures. Talk about global warming. Sheesh.
• Late April ‘09- I just found out that my brother and my cousin did stuff with my cooling pad. I’m stuck with manual cooling (e.g. awkward positioning, hispeed electric fan).
• Early May ‘09- the fan worked again! We were staying at the Marikina Hotel and my mother’s boss borrowed my laptop. I was really antsy thinking about the condition of my fan- but it worked! well, only for a bare quarter-hour. It returned to it’s previous state after we ate dinner.
• July ‘09- i found out that there was an authorized Acer repair shop in the next city. My warranty expired. Gosh. It’s be hard going there having puppy-eyes and going out with real tears knowing that everything would cost half the whole machine.

Wow. It’s like my laptop’s history for the year is all about its fan. Well, yesterday my mother and I passed by a computer shop after doing the groceries. Something weird caught my eye- a cooling pad! but with a slightly different form. It was foldable and had an extra USB port. It costs PHP500. My mother persuaded the girl to sell it for PHP450.

I tried it when I got home. It’s speed and temperature was not much compared to what I had but I had no other choice. The first time I used it, my laptop crashed (yet again) so I positioned it so that most of the two fans would be under the ventilation holes. it worked.

I’d be thankful for it even though I realized how this would restrict my laptop’s mobility. For one, i’d have to avoid moving it because it’s hard to position the fan right under the ventilation holes. Due to my room’s organized chaos, i’d have to move it away from The Tech Kiosk (a quarter of my room.) to my mother’s room where it would be at ease with the environment. Second, I’d have to lessen my laptop’s trips to school, *where it would be of great use to me. Lastly, my mind won’t be at ease during our Software Freedom Day ‘09 celebration. I would have to bring it for my presentations and that would mean that I’d have to watch for it every waking millisecond.

Well, too much about that. Another big matter of discomfort for me is my laptop’s optical drive. I tried watching a DVD last week and it would not recognize the disc. I tried other CDs/DVDs; no optimistic response. whenever I open my laptop, the optical drive would make weird sounds. I tried consulting my ICT teacher about it and she says that it is really a common problem with Acer laptops (this was the time I knew about the authorized Acer repair shop, see timeline above). It’s either I have the drive replaced or I’d have to buy an external optical drive.

Gosh, now I’d have no chance to try other linux LiveCDs and watch borrowed DVDs/VCDs.

I hope nothing new would come up in my lake of hopeless puzzles.

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Analyze. Only once in your lifetime.

Jan Louis

Kevin Jonas is getting married!

The parents of the famous three-person band, Jonas Brothers, emailed all JB fans today. Kevin Sr. and Denise Jonas shared to everyone the message that their son, Kevin Jr., is has asked Danielle Deleasa for her hand in marriage. Her answer was yes.

They have not set a date yet for the said event.

Congratulations, Kevin!

Jan Louis

sorry (Air iPhone)

All possible download links for the Adobe Ai Deskop iPhone in my pevious post are unavailable at the moment. (

Jan Louis

*UPDATE*

everything is now fixed.

Adobe Air iPhone on your desktop?

Can’t get yourself a smart Apple iPhone or a sexy Apple iPod Touch?

Then give this electronic baby a try: Adobe Air iPhone.

It runs on your desktop but still lacks some features. That’s better than nothing, right?

download link: Adobe Air iPhone

Cheers!

Jan Louis

rant?

I’ve got spare time at the moment. the problem is that I can’t think of anything to write about. So what I’m gonna do is think of anything and update you with the stuf that’ve happened.

-Super Water Production Day yesterday. Super fun day! We played all afternoon to earn as much sweat as possible.

-MAPEH – It’s my first time to do some major painting.  we had to individually paint our Sports shirt logo. Grrr. i so sucked.

-Speed Power Plus – i started going to this amazing workshop today and it was super fun!!! so far i won a really amazing toy for acing the grammar pretest. i also found out that i’m a super lousy story teller. The toy I won was really entertaining and relaxing. it’s kind of a combination of connected wires that you can manipulate and form different stuff. Arian got the coosh ball in the story telling activity but is still beggin me to give her my prize. Suellen asked me if I could give it to her on her birthday. i’ll think about it (LOL). Ms. Agnes also gave us cute pins.

-I got the Jonas Brother’s Lines, Vines and Trying Times today. I really panicked when I got there this morning and they were pulling out all albums under MCA Music. It seems that their contract with the mall is up. Bad contract ending time though. It was only11 days after the album was released and I didn’t even get to beg money for it. I went to the office with a sad face and told my mom about it. My dad called when I went out and my mother gave me money!!! When I got there, all of the albums were already on the floor! The stupid computer at the register also can’t find it in the database. I still got to bring it home. Anyways, the abum is super! It came with a 24-page booklet which contains the lyrics and 30 super photos. They slightly ditched the CDVu+ feature though. Super songs – World War III, Paranoid, Fly With Me from Night at the Museum 2, Poison Ivy, the Niley song Before the Storm, What Did I Do To Your Heart (+ratings from me!), Much Better, Black Keys, Don’t Charge me for the Crime ft. Common, Turn Right, Don’t Speak, and Keep It Real from JONAS!!! The case also has a unique shape. I bought the album after Speech Power – super!- Plus.

-Cool stuff on ICT – our first practicum is to put ourselves in our desktop with a running program!!! *see mine below. Anyways, my teacher got sick but we still get to continue classes online.

That’s all for now. Leave a comment if you want to let me know about anything or if you want to give me any idea of what to write about next time!

last shot – Nick Jonas takes a break to play my fave sport – Table Tennis!!!

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Cheers!

-Jan Louis