March 31st, 2007 As long as you haven’t been living under a rock these past few years you should have at least heard of Firefox. If you have heard of it but haven’t switched yet, here are some very good reasons. I have done so (from IE to Netscape to Mozilla to Firefox) and have no regrets. But, [...]
March 28th, 2007 I bought a new mouse last sunday. I decided to get a new one because although my previous mouse is still working, it is not ergonomic and not responsive because of its ball mechanism. It was also already scraping material off my tabletop because the mouse “feet” had already fallen off. My friend Vinz, [...]
March 25th, 2007 Okay so it’s just in the US right now, but the Apple TV announced by Apple last January is now out. The Apple TV is basically an interface between your computer and your TV. Movies and TV shows you download from iTunes to your PC are transferred via your network, even wirelessly, to the Apple [...]
March 24th, 2007 I’ve been planning to dabble in a bit more serious photography for some time now. Nothing so serious as to go for monster DSLRs with gazillions of pixels. Just enough to get to know the technical aspects. So the answer is one of those entry-level DSLRs that have been popping around all over lately. The [...]
March 23rd, 2007 Finally was able to find a solution to the problem that had been bugging the Linux laptops at the office for quite some time already. The problem was that USB devices were not being detected. The error messages go like:
USB: device not accepting address 2. Error -110
USB: device not accepting address 3. [...]
March 21st, 2007 Just found out that a schoolmate and batchmate, Gemma Bagayaua-Mendoza, was arrested and jailed for libel. I didn’t know libel is an arrestable charge here. And it doesn’t even have to be proven that you’re guilty in court. Someone can just file libel charges at you and the police will come knocking on– or worse, [...]
March 18th, 2007 Caught the live broadcast of the Melbourne race on cable TV. It was the first race of the 2007 F1 season. As expected, Raikkonen made a good showing and got first place. Alonso was a close second place. But the big surprise is newcomer Hamilton who got a place on the podium on his F1 [...]
March 17th, 2007 Today, I finally installed the Tanabe Super Medalion Racing (SMR) that I had bought second-hand six months back.
The SMR is a canister-type free-flowing perforated-core muffler developed specifically for racing. It features Tanabe’s Advantex muffler packing material. Advantex is a chemically treated composite material that resists acid, heat, rust, and many other forms of deterioration. So [...]
March 8th, 2007 300 is the story of the Battle of Thermopylae where the Spartan King Leonidas and 300 Spartans warriors fought a last stand against the invading hordes of the Persian Empire. It is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 which in turn was inspired by the movie The 300 Spartans.
The movie is a frenetic, chest-thumping, [...]
March 4th, 2007 My brother, brother-in-law, and I were supposed to go paintball this afternoon at Global Gutz Boom Camp at Boom na Boom. Unfortunately, nobody else showed up. The only alternative would be playing with a bunch of paintball pros, regulars to the site. But we didn’t want to end up coming out looking like colorful [...]