TENS: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

The what?

never mind the long name; simply call it TENS. TENS is simply application of very mild electric shock to certain parts of the body to ease pain.

This process, which feels like a tingling sensation, claims to relieve pain although modern studies are still inconsistent to its efficacy.



what I know and feel is that the mild electric sensation simulates a massage and leaves my back, suffering from chronic back pains, asking for more after the twenty minutes of therapy.

Back in college,I experimented with a DIY TENS gadget bought in kit from in Manila and right now my sister is using one.

Add "Read More" Feature to Blogger (Expanding Posts)

Maybe you've noticed my Tutubi Patrol now has the new look and feel where I abbreviated the posts and added the "Read More" (actually a pagebreak) link to expand the posts on a separate page for Blogger/Blogspot blogs.

This expandable feature is what I root for in Blogger that Wordpress already have so I almost migrated this blog to Wordpress here but now I decided to continue using Blogger for some reason.

One of my Blogger friends, R.O. (actually we're friends way before this blog thing came aboout) asked me sometime ago how to do it but I didn't point him to the exact link nor did it myself. But since I'm now approaching the first anniversary of my blogs, I decided to give my Tutubi Patrol blog a facelift by making use of a new template and adding the "read more" to expand my posts thereby compressing the mainpage to save on bandwidth and agony for dial-up visitors.

Since my Tutubi Patrol site is still using the classic template, I only need to add a few lines of CSS code to my template as described in this article by Blogger and manually edit each post to insert the pagebreaks. Note I also enabled postpages for this feature to work.

If any of you need help in making a similar change to your blog, just drop a comment here and the tutubi will be seen hovering near you to help you out!

I will also make similar changes to this blog so stay tuned!

Blogger Read More

Dual-Booting Compaq Notebook

I spent two hours today on upgrading Ubuntu Linux installation to 6.10 (Edgy Eft) co-existing with a Windows XP install.

Took me the usual 2 hours to download the whole ISO, burn then install on my notebook.
I used ext3 files system on Linux, NTFS on Windows (of course) and FAT32 for the common partition to be accessed by both OSes.

Note that I'm sharing my email between the two OSes with Thunderbird and also my bookmarks using Firefox. Some files, due to their confidential nature, need to be encrypted and accessible again to both OSes using TrueCrypt

works great, isn't it

Google Cheat Sheet

need a crash course in Google?

download this document I found through Google (who else?)here

enjoy!