Balay ni Bambit

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Her name is Madonna Decena and she is singing for her kids.
The show is called Britain’s Got Talent (American Idol in one of its various incarnations). There’s over thirty videos of her performance on YouTube, but I found this one to load the fastest, probably because its one of the later ones, and there were [...]

A sort of tribute to the song which I remember best rendered by the late Karen Carpenter, which in Visayan colloquy has been expanded to include the phrase “libre bitaw” (it’s for free anyway), but in times when I know there are things that I would like for myself that are mere pipe dreams, I [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

A little over a month ago I had put in a CD request at Ubuntu.com. I was having problems downloading the 7.04 iso file. I was also having problems burning the iso I had downloaded, as I had mistakenly bought a bunch of blank cd’s that had only 750mb file capacity. The ISO needed 800mb [...]