Hello,

This is to inform you about the 2008 edition of the Tour of the Fireflies on Sunday, April 20, 6:30 AM at Tiendesitas, Pasig City. If you have or can use a bike on that day, join us for a 50 km ride across several cities in Metro Manila. The ride starts at 7 AM and will end at around 12 noon also at Tiendesitas. Awarding ceremonies to the best costumed bikers wearing earth-friendly themes will then follow. As always, the schedule of this yearly tour has been timed to be near the World's Earth Day event (April 22, http://ww2.earthday.net/).

Get ready to join thousands of bikers including kids as young as 6, grampas as old as 65 and out of shape people. If they can do it, so can you! Last year's tour saw more than 5,000 registered participants. Along with unregistered riders, some estimates put the peloton numbers at around 6,500 strong - and lasting several minutes passing by an arbitrary landmark!

The pace of the ride is only 10 - 15 kph with a few rest stops along the way! T-shirts (P150) and jerseys (P300) are available at the registration booth on the tour day itself starting at 5:30 AM.

For more info:
http://www.fireflybrigade.org/TOF/TOF.html
http://tourofthefireflies.multiply.com/
Mailing list:
fireflybrigade@yahoogroups.com

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The Tour of the Fireflies (ToF) is an annual 50-km bicycle ride through seven cities to promote the use of the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation that is cheap, efficient, environmentally sensible and good for one's health.

This year, synchronized bicycle rides in Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod, Baguio, and Tarlac are being organized by supporters to drum up more support for sustainable transportation and livable communities.

"If love is a crime then I'm guilty as charged."

Loloy D for ToF
PS. Don't forget to bring a helmet and some extra water supply!

Assumptions:

1. You're running 32-bit Windows; most notably tested has been Windows XP.
2. Hibernation is turned on and is properly working in your Windows setup. Check the Control Panel Power Options applet for more information.

Steps:

1. Right-click on an empty space on your Windows desktop and select New|Shortcut from the resulting pop-up context menu.
2. In the location of the item, type in
   

   %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 1

   Click next.

3. Type "Hibernate" or whatever you prefer as the title for the shortcut. Click Finish.

The directive works as well in programs.

Here's how to automatically rotate Abyss web server logs by month in 32-bit Windows.

Assumptions:

1. The Abyss web server log file is in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\log\access.log.
2. Windows has a yyyy/mm/dd date format from its Date and Time Control Panel applet.
3. Windows has a fully functioning Task Scheduler (all related services are running).

Steps:

1. Create a batch file with the following contents.

   for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/ " %%a in ("%DATE%") do (
   set yyyy=%%a
   set mm=%%b
   set dd=%%c)
   
   rem the order of %%a, %%b and %%c are system dependent! (control-panel, date/time settings)
   
   echo %dd%
   echo %mm%
   echo %yyyy%
   
   if not exist "ac%yyyy%%mm%.log" (
   net stop AbyssWebServer
   rem (move the log file in another folder, example: access.22.11.2005.log)
   ren "access.log" "ac%yyyy%%mm%.log"
   rem (Abyss start and create a new log file)
   net start AbyssWebServer
   )
   pause

2. Create a multiple time scheduled task (or make it run daily) to run the above batch file.
3. Test the damn thing and smile to the world around you to make it a little better.
4. For more insights, set your scopes to http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71723#71723

Find anything wrong with the information posted here? Shoot me a feedback!

I intend to post my database realizations in this section. This will be/is like a knowledge-base of some sorts of all database-related material.

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they will slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk ang label it "in".
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addiction, switch to espresso.
6. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy".