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While renovating my grandfather's old room, we found an envelope full of old paper money. It's weird to see just how much things have changed. I'll see if I can get a good image of them, and I'll try to get the modern equivalent as well ;)

There are bills from the time of four different presidents: Ramon Magsaysay, Carlo P. Garcia, Diosdado Macapagal, and Ferdinand Marcos. The weird thing is that the design reminds me more of US dollar bills than the modern incarnations. The text is even in English instead of in Filipino.

I wonder when the currency was redesigned? Also, anyone with a better grasp of history able to tell me how old these bills probably are (based on the presidents who signed them)?

Update:
Looking at the bills individually now, and I'm pretty sure that the redesign was done in Marcos' time. The money signed by all the other presidents is in the old style, and looks more like the dollar. All the bills with Marcos' name on them have had a facelift, and they are much closer to the modern version.

The old-style bills have this line running across the bottom: "This note is legal tender in the Philippines for all debts, public and private" (emphasis mine). Sound familiar to anyone? The Marcos bills have the same text translated into Filipino.

They all look like play money.

This is seriously, seriously cool.

Update 2:
I just found a 10-peso bill with Marcos' signature, which makes sense because he couldn't have started redesigning the money until he started his term, so he'd have needed to go with the old-style bills first.

I've also found a one-peso bill. Hahaha!

Front, compared to the modern $1 bill:


( back view and picture of a modern (PHP100) bill for comparison of the layout )

I feel content right now. Finally figured out why entries in syndicated accounts occasionally don't seem to follow logic in their ordering and deletion. The entries should ideally be in reverse chronological order, and entries older than fourteen days are deleted. However, if you visit the actual recent entries page of a syndicated account, you'll occasionally see that some entries are out of order, or that there are some entries that were posted to the feed more than fourteen days ago.

No one really notices it, because most feeds update far enough apart that you only ever get one new entry per fetch, or it doesn't really matter what order they appear on your friendslist as long as they show up. And who's going to complain about keeping older entries around?

It bothered me though, because there was no apparent logic behind the (re)ordering and the nondeletion. It wasn't being ordered by the date shown on the entry, and it wasn't being ordered by the entry id either. In fact, it didn't seem to be ordered by anything that I could see on the page (that's because it in fact wasn't ;)).

The other weird thing was that the reordering/nondeletion was usually accompanied by a complaint of the feed not updating. I thought at first that there was something wrong with the parsing of the feed, which would account for the misordering (the dates were not being recognized perhaps?), and which would explain why the feed wasn't updating properly. Turns out that it was the other way around: the feed not updating is the cause for the misordering and the apparent late deletion.

In a word: "logtime"
> plus two words: "vs. entrytime" (display time? eventtime?)
In twelve words: "ordered by logtime; entries fetched at the same time have equal logtime"
> six more words: "been staring me in the face"

In other words: "I love advanced S2 customization -- hi $entry.system_time"

In more words than that, but you need to be able to see ICs in Syn, requests #800206 and #796055

And with that, I think I've investigated/ICed on/touched the last really stale request that I can. The rest of the things I can handle are only about a week old or less.

(Now it's time for me to concentrate on the stuff I need for China!)

Investigated all four issues while I was logged in to LJ and as both logged in and logged out of Photobucket.

( four different issues with inserting images via RTE: diagnostic work, error messages, all that dull stuff )

More context in the headers themselves. Urgh, I'm too lazy to dig around PB to figure out what's going on (not even sure I can? Dig around, I mean. Also figure out what's going on)

'Kay, I think at this point, I need to update the RT ticket about being unable to paste images using photobucket, and possibly file another one about the "OK" button's appearance being delayed, and another one about the "please type image url" popup. And then uh. Possibly IC where necessary, but tomorrow. Think I need to stop work on this particular issue for today. Need a night's rest before I can whip this into shape to make coherent ICs, reports, etc. Here's to hoping I don't forget :P

Also, must remember to find out whether anyone else is experiencing the same problem (more to the point, if not everyone is experiencing this problem, then why?)