Posts Tagged ‘ Internet ’

Things that suck about being in IT

By Bambit | August 31st, 2008 | Category: Featured Post, Open Source | 2 comments

Tech Republic has recently relased another article under their Sanity Check series: Five things that suck about working in I.T. As I read the TR list I realized that in the Philippine context, Jason Hiner’s list was in the wrong order. This is the list as it appears on the article on Tech Republic.
Having been in the I.T. business since 1995 (and a professed computer addict 10 years prior to that) I would say that list is upside down, and so may I offer my explanations to the same list, reordered for the Philippine I.T. setting.


My Favorite Firefox Add-ons

By Bambit | August 28th, 2008 | Category: Techstuff | 1 Comment »

Now that Firefox 3.01 has more or less stabilized quite a few of my favorite add-ons and plugins have been updated to run in this latest version. I love Firefox because it enables me to work my browsing to the fullest, and with Firefox the browser is not just a browser. It is an indispensable [...]


Working from home

By Bambit | June 19th, 2008 | Category: Workstuff | 5 comments

Real freakish weather we’ve been having here in Manila these days. You get really hot mornings and torrid mid-afternoons and then late in the afternoon comes a sudden downpour. That’s a real recipe for instant headache or fever or it can even be an excuse for crankiness which may lead to one working from home.
And [...]


Restore Missing Bookmarks after Upgrading to Firefox 3

By Bambit | June 19th, 2008 | Category: Techstuff | 6 comments

Finally got to install Firefox version 3, but got a scare when I realized all my bookmarks were gone!
But I remembered that Google is my friend and a quick search for “missing bookmarks after firefox 3 upgrade” led me to a few sites that taught me how to get my bookmarks back on this Windows [...]


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