Archive for May, 2006
Technogiggle #1
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Ultraelectromagnetichype
A singer/group that does a cover version of a song that is considered a classic takes on an enormous responsibility. He has a responsibility to analyze the song even before deciding if it’s the right one to do a cover of, a duty to put his own roots into the song, and an obligation to [...]
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Resurrection
I resurrected an old hard disk this evening, from a machine we’d been using from two years ago, but whose motherboard had said “enough!”
We rediscovered Sam’s old office files, Maia’s baby pics from the time she was born, Kuya Maui’s school stuff from Iligan, and the mp3 files I’d patiently downloaded from the time I [...]
Mojizu! Hai!
Moji-what?
Mojizu is for the people who create characters and people who just love them, from experienced artists to casual doodlers. If you draw characters for a living – it’s a place to showcase them and expose your talent to a wide audience around the world. If you draw characters as a hobby, it’s a place [...]
Domain Name Appraisal
A Lifehacker find:
LeapFish.com has this interesting “utility” that provides an appraisal for your domain and how much it’s worth based on several criteria. I ran our domain through it and this is what I got:
Thank you for using the LeapFish Domain Name Analyzer. The following custom report explains more details about what each of these [...]
Cons and Asses
On the MIA-EDSA bus route there is one line whose employees wear a white shirt with blue collars and emblazoned on the back with “BAVES TRANSPORT ASS. INC.”
While I’ve always thought of ASS. as a sad contraction for the word association (personally I prefer assoc. but then again, nothing beats the full word “association”) I’ve [...]
The Philippine Marketing Excellence Awards
Seal of Approval or Mere Marketing Ploy?
What first seemed to be a congratulatory announcement faxed to our office has turned out to be a legitimized marketing ploy.
This is about a marketing group that calls itself the Philippine Marketing Excellence Awards, which has sent a fax to our office congratulating us for having won the award, [...]
The Fever is Rising
But the Philippines isn’t even breaking into a sweat.
In Germany, the venue of this year’s World Cup, worker’s unions are calling for flexible work schedules so that workers can watch the games and not be penalized for absences.
With the recently concluded FA Cup Finals (smashing game between the Reds and the Hammers) finding out [...]
Peanuts
My aunt (the one who raised me and is now in Seattle and has been there since I went back to my parents in Cebu which is another long story that will be told in another post but not here) used to bring home a bag of boiled peanuts for me on exam days, back [...]
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