FUBARgenre: The Genre of Fubar

I’m writing this from a 7-year old laptop that’s practically falling apart at the seams. This is the only working computer in our entire geekdom today. Imagine that.

Thank you. I love you. And happy day of hearts.

As I hinted earlier, Hastang will be returning to Manila on February 2008 for the second leg of their Manila tour. The band has yet to make an official announcement; but I’m just too excited to keep mum about this. In fact, I’m too giddy to sit still. Yey! Hastang in Manila. Can’t wait!

I haven’t talked to, nor heard from, Pio in over 4 years. That’s a long time for two people who claim to be friends.

Gen showed me this interesting Time article about flirting. Odd that it came from Gen of all people; odder still that she thought of me when she read it. Hello! Subtle, much?

I truly apologize for the 48 or so hours that this blog has been down. I wasn’t monitoring my stats, and I was unprepared when the traffic suddenly spiked. I apologize for whatever inconvenience this may have caused you. I will do my best to prevent this from happening in the future.

Here are a couple of rough design ideas using dark colors for anyone who might want to customize a Mimbo layout.

Midnight Makoy is a 3-column, widget-ready free Wordpress theme with an attractive dark color scheme, and is compatible with the Gravatar and Pagenavi plugins. You may temporarily preview it here.
Midnight Makoy started as an alternative design for the Himantayon Pro theme, which I created for Himantayon.com back in August. I used more or less the [...]

What can you do to fix a poorly defined background in an otherwise great portrait? You have a wide variety of options, but the quickest (and easiest) way for me is to desaturate the background to make the foreground stand out more.

Changing skin tones and manipulating portrait colors in photoshop seem to be the craze these days. And I’ve been doing it for the longest time without really any conscious effort on my part. But I’ve been asked to write this basic photoshop tutorial, so I will attempt to retrace my steps.