Testing the value of adding AdSense to help my college fund Hope it’s not too disturbing.

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byVolce the online portfolio of Jonathan Solichin

It has been a cool 2008, and it’s now time to join 2009 and all it has to offer. My resolution this year is to “Carpe Diem” or seize the day. No matter how cliche it is, I think it is a great goal. A big one indeed, but as I came to realize, most of the things we regret is the things we didn’t do. Few things we regret because it was done. And also, with this new beginning I decided to revamp my parent domain (byvolce.com) and actually make a portfolio instead of a bunch of links that it currently is. I hope you like it.

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It’s ok guys, I am not dead yet! Neither am I lost, because I have my trusty Becker Traffic Assist Highspeed GPS (Also known as Becker Traffic Assist Highspeed 7934 GPS outside of the US) with me! Well not really because of it but it makes a good intro doesn’t it? So like what you would expect from me I got this gps on sale and it was a pretty good deal. I know it’s not the usual Tom Tom or Garmin (it’s a German brand so it is not as common on this side of the Atlantic) but it’s a pretty good gps overall. The device has a 3.5″ touch screen with a 400MHz processor and an SD card slot for the map and storage and runs on Navteq and Navigon. The device officially can view pictures and play mp3/wma; but if you’re into hacking you can do so much more. More on that later.

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Yes, we are finally live. After grueling hours and hours of painful coding, we are finished (or at least to my knowledge, comment if you find any bugs please, it would be much appreciated). How do you like it? Sorry the theme is going dark again. So if you’re a printing guy or some geek, you probably can tell what inspired the theme. For those who can’t tell, it’s inspired by CYMK. You know the new (sorta) RGB? But where is the “K” (black) you ask? Well after much consideration I decided that black is too common and won’t leave as a big impression. I chose brown even though there are several websites in brown because I wanted to keep the coloring dark as not to burn your eyes out. And plus it reminds you of, brownies, chocolates, cookies and all those good stuff.

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To tell you the truth, I wasn’t very satisfied with the current design I’ve set up a couple month ago. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve learned a lot, and It was good practice. But I think it’s a bit cramped and constricted.

Unlike this version, the new theme won’t be as 800×600 friendly. But I think it’ll be ok because more and more designer have stopped using that as the standard and moved on to 1024×798 as the screen size to design around. So here’s to a lot more cans of hydration and snacks to get me through the coding.

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So a couple of days ago, I decided my computer was starting to lag too much and I should reinstall it. The original plan was to create a new partition (using my trusty sysresccd which has qtparted. A free hard drive partitioner that can resize ntfs.) on my hard drive to place all my files into and reformat the other partition. Then after reinstalling the OS I would place the file back, then join all the partition back. Sounds great right? On paper it did, but when I went ahead and executed it, a big giant head exploding problem happened. My computer crashed while partitioning. Naturally my first hope was to check if my files was still there, no dice. At that point a part of me died. (more…)

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Happy almost 1st birthday 53m1/ Canabis Day (No I don’t smoke canabis, unfortunate isn’t it? But if you do, here’s your present. Sorry I couldn’t get you a canabis)! Yes you have stumbled upon 53m1, now renamed “novus.volce”. So After almost a year, I’ve decided to rebrand everything. An evolution if you will. What’s amazing is that coincidentally, this is the 51st post. (more…)

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Did you like your free screen cleaning dog trial? Is your screen still dirty? Get your own cute and adorable cleaner for the low price of 9.99! But wait, there’s more, if you Google today, you can find your own for 0 easy payments of $999999999999999.

No? Well anyway, did you know that

“April Fool’s day is a long and sacred tradition in Norway. It’s true. They’ve been celebrating it for a long time. Although some argues that this is only a myth, it is not. In 2001, Mazer Reckham, uncovered writings in Norway that recorded a giant prank done to the king of Norway for his birthday. As a result, it became a tradition for them to create a prank every year on the king’s birthday, April 1st. [Citation Needed]“

Well go on and share your new found knowledge. Have a case of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome. Happy Pranking

Sorry about the lateness, my Wordpress seems to be set in the wrong time. But here it is.

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Courtesy of Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin. It sure saved me from any problem. I was able to upgrade in about 3 clicks, without even thinking! Yes I do think.

The back end went through quite a refresh. Everything is brighter and more white. Although I’m quite indifferent about it. But as always I welcome a new design with open arms. As always is pretty slick and clean. There’s less blue and more white with a touch of gray. We’ll see how this new baby runs. For some reason, the really light baby blue color (Ex. the one on the header) doesn’t seem to show on my monitor. I had to re-calibrate my monitor and lower the contrast for it to appear. It looks much better with the baby blue, or else it is too white for me. But that’s just my preference. (more…)

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Welcome to spring baby. Well maybe we’re a bit late. How about Happy Daylight Saving Time! (Did you forget to change your clock?) Anyway now that the day is getting brighter, I thought I should make the blog a bit brighter and cleaner (spring cleaning anybody?) too. Along with the changes comes good stuff. The blog no longer takes as much bandwidth as before because it doesn’t use that awesome but humongous background. Yes all this wood uses a small pattern. Also I made minor changes for our ie6 brethren. So how do you like the new theme? If you’re new, you can check out the previous background here. By the way did you know that in the U.S, DST actually starts at 2 a.m? Americans are always the oddball. Want to learn more about DST? Here’s a cool site that uses nodes/clouds to explain it.

Like the trees where wood comes from, let us grow as well. Cheese are cool stuff.

Thanks to Henri Liriani.

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