I just want to record this very funny experience we had with an Dutch undergrad doing research with me. He couldn't successfully run the computer program that I made and emailed to him; it would just display an error when run in his laptop or in any computer of the computer center. It will only run in my laptop. Then after two days of thinking about the problem, tinkering with many procedures of the code, and changing parameter and input values, we finally found the culprit: his laptop and all computers where we tested the program are configured in Netherlands, which handles decimal numbers differently (the decimal point is a comma and the thousand separator is a dot).

I made a program for easy reference to RGB color code. Click the image to download the program.

May dalang kalungkutan na may kasamang excitement ang pagkakilala ko kay Delphi. Bumabalik sa aking alaala ang ilang mga pagpupuyat na ginawa ko noong nasa kolehiyo pa lang ako sa Iligan. Second year ako noon, first time pa lang nakahawak ng computer. Dahil sa pagpupuyat kong iyon ay halos nakaligtaan ko na ang ilang mahahalagang asignatura ko lalong lalo na ang Calculus kung saan nakakuha ako ng 2.00, pinakamababa sa lahat ng grades ko sa math. Pero hindi ko pinanghinayangan ang mga pagpupuyat na iyon.

Kahit konti lang kaming faculty sa physics department ay masaya pa rin ang christmas party. Naglaro kami ng Bingo at sinuwerte ako dahil dalawang beses ako nanalo. P100 at regalo ni Ma'am Cuan. Thanks Ma'am.

Medyo hi-tech ang Bingo kasi computer ang ginamit namin na number generator na ginawa ko nung Linggo lang. Sabi nga nila dinaya ko daw kasi twice ako nanalo. Of course, hindi pwede yun kasi di ko pa naman alam ang card ko nung ginawa ko ang program.