Archive for August, 2007

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Hit and run no more

Posted by Bambit
August 25, 2007

Ever since the recent spam comment hits Sam and I have been taking, I’d been looking around for captcha protection that works for wordpress. I tried out a few lemons, but this one is a juicy apple.
Try out Peter’s Random Anti-Spam, which took me only three steps to put in place:
1. download from Peter’s site
2. [...]

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Yet another pathetic attempt at human trafficking

Posted by Bambit
August 23, 2007

I have known my niece Wanda since she was three years old. That’s a considerably long time since she’s now 28 years old. She is a teacher who majored in Special Education (SPED), and has been teaching very young kids for more than 5 years now.
She has received an invitation for interview with VSO, [...]

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Halleluuu, hallelujaah

Posted by Bambit
August 10, 2007

Ngayong gabi
Ako ang sundalo mo
Habang ika’y tulog
Ako’y gising nakabantay sa iyo,
Sinong sawa, sinong galit
Sumigaw ngayong gabi
Halleluuu, hallelujaah
–Bamboo

Our Navy Seabees band during a recruitment sortie by the Philippine Navy in one of the malls in the city. When they sang this song they out-bambooed Bamboo himself. Galing nyo, Sarge!
If I’d been 25 years younger and [...]

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Maia can’t come out to play today

Posted by Bambit
August 8, 2007

It happens at least once a year, this flood. It happens when the rains come in the middle of the year and the creek that borders our subdivision floods, and if the tide is high the water from Manila Bay comes in and meets the flood, the water rises in a matter of minutes and [...]

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Makeover

Posted by Bambit
August 5, 2007

Change of template again, as you may have noticed. This one is called Artificial Intelligence — which may translate as “Kunwari Matalino” (trans. Pretending to be intelligent) in Tagalog. I like the way it spreads out and its pastel blue shades. It’s kinda white and stark, but if I put in a picture or [...]

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The things which are Caesar’s

Posted by Bambit
August 2, 2007

A cursory look at this pay period’s payslip reminded me of how much this government is making out of MY hard earned pesos. Rough computations led me to conclude that in the two years that I had been working since we came back to Manila from Mindanao, I had given the government no less than [...]