FireFox 3 aiming for a Guinness World Record on June 17.
If you still don’t know, FireFox 3 will be coming out publicly on June 17th. Inline with this, FireFox is trying for a Guinness Wordl Record for the most number of software downloads in 24 hours.
You may not win ipods or other cool prizes, but hey helping achieve a world record by being a part of it and just by downloading a software that we love to use for browsing the internet could be enough incentive to join the fun. 
So what are you waiting for? Go take the Pledge so you don’t forget about downloading FireFox 3 on the 17th. 
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Using Scribefire for the first time.
Alright, I was browsing blogs the other day when I stumbled upon ScribeFire. I decided to try it out and install it but I forgot about it because I had my computer on for around a day or two. Today when I opened my computer, I got a popup asking me to input my blog setting for ScribeFire so I did it for this blog. Its quite a cool application since I have the ScribeFire panel within my browser screen so I can easily surf the net and when I find some interesting stuff, I can easily post about it in my blog without the hassle of opening another tab, then logging in and all that.
It also has the options to add videos by searching YouTube without having to open another tab as well. I think I’m going to be enjoying having ScribeFire. 
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Friends Forever.
Its not everyday that we see our friends, sometimes it even takes years before we find each other again. I haven’t seen Les for a year before I finally saw her again when we had lunch with Neil in Robinson’s Lipa. Last Sunday, we saw each other again because our friend Kristel was finally in Lipa for a bit of a vacation. We met up around 2.30pm and we just went around the mall talking and catching up with the things that has happened to each of us.
After getting tired of checking out the shops, we decided to head to Timezone where we played Deal or No Deal and Mario Kart. After an hour of waiting, we finally got a Videoke Timezone booth around 4pm. We stayed there until 6.30pm spending all the remaining credits we topped up to our card.
Then we looked around HandyMan for garden decor and grills, the Japanese 88 Store for random goodies, the department store for a white pantyhose for my sister (apparently the school said all freshmen nursing students needed one but then they changed their mind after I bought it ugh…) and the supermarket for almond extract, maraschino cherries, all purpose cream and some macaroon cups.
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What are replica wheels?
I don’t have much knowledge when it comes to automobiles since I don’t drive them, I only ride them. I also get too confused about all the technical details about it (I’d rather fix my computer or bake or do gardening stuff) rather than put my attention to automobiles. Though my curiosity got the best out of me when someone mentioned about “replica wheels” in passing. The idea somehow interested me so I tried to search for what replica wheels are but I didn’t really get exact definitions on the internet. (I wasn’t about to go ask around every guy I know what a replica wheel is. Lol. So searching some more, I found sites like http://www.wheelhq.com/ which offer these replica wheels. While browsing through their site I kind of got the idea of what replica wheels might actually be. from what I understand these are copies of wheel designs for cars. So somehow guys like customizing how their cars looked and one part of it would be wheels since it would be quite great to set you car apart with as much detail as you want and since you have a bit of wheels in your car, it would just be normal to customize them too. Maybe if I finally get a car of my own I could try getting a replica wheel too. I’d let Dad handle that though since he seem to be taking a liking to cars. Lol.
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My sister has acne.
We’ve been searching around the internet for acne information, even to the point of reading acne treatment reviews, because my sister is having a bad bout with acne. It’s her forehead that’s getting the bulk of the problematic acne. She’s tried several soaps as well as facial creams but nothing seems to be working for her. She’s gone to a derma before but the treatment she got didn’t really work at all. We’re having trouble because she is the only one in the family who suffered from acne. We don’t even know how she got it. She wants to treat it asap because the schoolyear is about to start and she is taking up nursing. So its very much noticeable when she’s wearing all white and her forehead is all red from the acne. >.<
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Baked my cake, and ate it too.
I finally baked my own cake. *squeals with delight* The other day I finally tried baking a cake without using a cake mix. Bwahahah. The very first time I baked a cake was last May 25th for Dad’s birthday and I used a Pillsbury Cake Mix for the base and made my own chocolate frosting. The other day though, my little sister TinTin was asking me to bake a cake since they wanted one for dessert. I finally gave in and decided to try my hand at making one from scratch. I was a bit scared since this will be my second time making a cake but my first time doing it from scratch but I’m not someone who’d back down from a cooking (or baking for that matter) challenge.
Since I liked how the recipe for Chocolate Sugar Cookie Drops from Hersheys before, I decided to use their “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” Chocolate Cake. But as usual I substituted some of the ingredients for those I had on hand. Hehe.
Modified HERSHEY’S “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
* 2 cups sugar (I used brown sugar)
* 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour (I used local flour, what people call as primera (first class) in the local market)
* 3/4 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa (As usual I used regular baking cocoa.:P)
* 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 eggs
* 1 cup milk (I used a cup of Alaska Evaporada from a local sari-sari store. Lol.)
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 cup boiling water
* “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” CHOCOLATE FROSTING (I didn’t use this one, instead I opted to make my own coffee cream frosting. :P)
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350°F (175 °C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
2. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost with “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” CHOCOLATE FROSTING. 10 to 12 servings.
VARIATIONS:
ONE-PAN CAKE: Grease and flour 13×9x2-inch baking pan. Heat oven to 350° F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. Cool completely. Frost.
THREE LAYER CAKE: Grease and flour three 8-inch round baking pans. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost.
BUNDT CAKE: Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely. Frost.
CUPCAKES: Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper bake cups. Heat oven to 350°F. Fill cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake 22 to 25 minutes. Cool completely. Frost. About 30 cupcakes.
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Ok, so as usual I had to modify the ingredients because I had to use what I had on hand at the time. I also used one 10 inch round baking pan for it because that’s the only pan I have available. With the substitutions I did, the cake still came out really good. TinTin and Miguel (our youngest siblings) thought highly of the cake. They said it was much much better than what we had for Dad’s birthday, so I think its safe to say I won’t be buying that Pillsbury mix again. Lol.
I would have posted the pictures sooner but my computer hanged up a bit since its low on memory. I have to remember to save up for one since I just bought my oven.
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My Big Love.
Last night, I was bored so I looked for a good dvd to watch. I couldn’t find any so I had to watch whatever was left on the player which was My Big Love. Seems like I’m being given signs to go back to the gym and use up the membership that has already been paid. Heh, maybe I should who knows I might lose all the weight I want to if I follow Toni’s 5 steps. Lol. Well I think that would work much better than merely relying on things like hoodia and the like to drop all that weight and keep it off. A good dose of motivation and desire to lose weight would be helpful.
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Domain changes.
I was tinkering with my domains so I decided to use one of my neglected domains for a more serious project of mine. The said domain is my name which is nikacatbagan.com. I decided to move my photoblog into a sub so my A View from Somewhere photoblog (which runs on PixelPost) is now at photography.nikacatbagan.com.
I turned the homepage into a blog where I would be writing more serious topics as well as talk about freelancing. Heh, I am still hoping that I wouldn’t have to take a call center job and instead just work at home. I love working from home.
I loved the theme immediately when I first saw it, the only thing she’s missing would be gold cufflinks and she’s all set. Lol. Hopefully I keep that blog updated frequently. I need to exercise my brain, its getting quite rusty since I haven’t been obligated to stimulate my mind by solving extremely long equations as well as reading old literatures then writing a 20 page reaction about it. I miss my professors. Lol.
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I need to get a passport.
I don’t have my own passport yet. Seriously. I never did apply for one before because I really didn’t have any need for it. I wasn’t likely to get out of the country anytime soon back then so I didn’t pay much attention to it. My mom is planning to take a vacation and travel to other Asian countries later this year and my cousin’s wife sort of owns a travel agency. So she told us that she can arrange the trip we wanted after we have all the needed documents. I really want to go with Mom and Angel to that trip so I’ll try to apply for my passport once we have those passport events in our local municipal hall. I’m too lazy to go to Lucena just yet.
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