Been very, no really, very busy at work the past few weeks. One guy quit which left only two of us to handle an increasing amount of work. Today the other guy called in sick so I had to come in and do his work too. Just for today, I hope. So for today the office got a bargain, a person doing the work of two (three when you actually look at it) for the price of one.

Schedules like this do not allow me to go to the movies to unwind, which is tough because I happen to like the movies and popcorn and a cold dark place to hang out every once in a while. But even movies these days don’t come cheap in the Philippines, after tickets for two, bucket of popcorn, liter of root beer, there’s not going to be much left out of my PHP500 (roughly US$10-12).

So I go for the next best thing. Movies at home. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I do torrents, and that for me uTorrent must be the best ever software installed on my computer. uTorrent 1.8 is even spiffier than the previous version, with everything laid out in tabs giving you more control over the way you download whatever it is you download.

One problem I had run into is how browsing seemed to stop while I had uTorrent running. Quick google told me to look at the Bandwidth settings on Preferences, and to change a couple of settings from the default:

In Global maximum number of connections, bring it down to 100 from the default 200. And in Maximum number of connected peers per torrent, put in 30 instead of the default 50. That should bring your browsing back while you download whatever it is you download in torrents. Worked like a dream for me.

I’ve downloaded quite a few movies to start an eclectic collection of flicks that would have cost me hundreds of pesos, and with a program called ConvertXtoDVD I can even burn them into disks that I can play on a DVD player that will play home made DVDs.

With this system I don’t even need Quiapo.

Font conference. ‘Nuff said.

The lego boys hanging out at Diliman. They hang out at Gaerlan St. too. Wanna hang out with them for a bit? Click HERE.