Stream of Ry

Currently with the Diliman Network Helpdesk team at Quezon Hall to help with the online streaming of the Lantern Parade for 2009.

You can view the live stream here .

If there’s any problem with the quality of the audio and video, just tweet about it. You can follow @dilnet for updates.

Simply Beautiful.

Here are the lyrics (from this duet version of the same song):
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I left FLYFF at around a month after onset of the Housing system (which was v13) and when I left, there’s still no furniture with stats.

Visiting the game again, these stat-laden furniture are now available at the Flyff Shop:

They sell for around 300 coupons, which is equivalent to 15Php. Not bad for 7 days worth of additional stats. They typically sell for 15M (those that adds to stats, looks like tables and closets costs a lot more) in-game, and in my opinion, one of the best returns in terms of Penya to PhP ratio (which is 1M per Php or up to double for the Table and Closet) compared with your typical Premiums, like Azria tickets (which sells for only around 800k per Php).

However, with the Flyff Shop’s not-so-stellar information system, I’ve had to do some extra research on what stat boost each furniture gives.

Here’s a table on what they do:

If you’re the type who spends on FUN and FOR cards, then the Table and Closet would be a better alternative and you can save those FUN and FOR cards for one of those hardcore grinding sessions.

Have fun grinding.

I have been reading this book and I have learned a lot from it.
The book taught me lots of new things (such as the difference between an income statement and balance sheet) but more importantly, it reminded me of lessons I already knew but never took them to heart. Now, I repeat the same lessons to myself over and over again so that I will never forget.

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I am probably the only person who ever replied like this to such assignments.

It’s just that, in my opinion, an instructor who asks his/her students to use a particular software is compelled to provide for them a copy of the software or at least a source where they can get a copy. Furthermore, being in education, the copy should be legitimate or else risk being a bad influence to his/her constituents.

Piracy is not an alternative and I do not want to be an educated pirate.

How can we, as academics, condemn plagiarism and not piracy? In essence, they are the same — making use of a legal intellectual property without credit — only that in software, credit is in the form of currency.

Seriously, if I don’t get an alternative or a legitimate copy, I will not do the Machine Problem.

Feel free to comment.